Technorama Ep424: Dabo tables…and matching chairs

Coming up in this episode…
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  • Snaketrooper
  • Another sign of the singularity
  • Circular stuff

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On This Day In History for January 21, 2015
This is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining in 2015. It was on this date in 1789 that the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • January 21, 1899, Opel manufactures its first automobile.
  • It was 61 years ago today that The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
  • That same date in 1960, Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
  • It was 44 years ago today that The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
  • January 21, 1976, Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
  • Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland in 1981.
  • It was 11 years ago today that NASA’s MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

  • Russian mathematician Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, born on this date in 1827.
  • Also born on this date in 1882, Pavel Florensky, another Russian mathematician.
  • Actor Telly Savalas was born today in 1922.
  • English actor, singer, and screenwriter, Benny Hill would have been 91 today.
  • Radio host and actor Wolfman Jack was born today in 1938.
  • Co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, is 62.
  • and finally actress Geena Davis is 59.

and don’t forget today is National Hug Day in the US.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 21, 2015

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  • 23 – Kathie Luke, IL
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  • 26 – Will The Computer Guy
  • 27 – Mark in Memphis

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