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Listening to latest Technorama. Must make small correction. Orcs are a subgroup of Goblins.
On This Day In History for February 5, 2014
This is the 36th day of the year, there are 329 days remaining in the year.
- It was on this in 1900 that the United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
- That same date in 1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first
synthetic plastic. - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists February 5, 1919.
- The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the
“BBC pips” 90 years ago today. - Today in 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia,
never to be recovered. - and 43 years ago today, Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to
- Gaspar Schott, German mathematician, born on this date in 1608.
- Author William S. Burroughs, would have been 100 today.
- Happy birthday to Chinese computer scientist Wang Xuan, born February 5, 1937
- The man behind such TV shows as The A-Team, Riptide, 21 Jump Street, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Beretta, Adam-12, Columbo, and
many many more, Stephen J. Cannell was born today in 1941 - Actress Barbara Hershey, turns 66
- and finally the man who created LiveJournal, Brad Fitzpatrick is 34 today.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 5, 2014
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- Feb 08 – Blake Noble
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“Podcast” Mike Wills from Minnesota - Feb 10 – Zach Akgulian – Appleton, WI
- Feb 10 – Drace (Shari from ND)
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