Technorama Ep479 : Boom box brothers

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Italian students turn trash to cash
Possible use for Chernobyl
A new card game from an old computer game

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On This Day In History for August 3, 2016
This is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining in 2016.

It was on this date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
That same date in 1527, The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes on this date in 1678.
Also today in 1852, Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded 116 years ago today.
Also today in 1936, Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
August 3, 1946, Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
Also today in 1958, The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
It was 39 years ago today that The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.
39 years ago today, Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company, Elisha Otis, born on this date in 1811
Also born on that same date in 1900, John T. Scopes, American educator
Born August 3, 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb the American chemist and theorist
Author Leon Uris was born today in 1924
Actor Tony Bennett turns 90 today
Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut, Tony Bennett was born 1935
Actor Martin Sheen is 76
Martha Stewart is 75
Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter John Landis is 66
The actor who played Dennis the Menace in the 1950s TV show, Jay North is 65
and the man who designed the games Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, Masahiro Sakurai is 46.

From the listener birthday calendar

03 – Johnee Bee
06 – Julie Tomasi
08 – Philippa Ballantine
09 – Matt Coe (WoWaddict) [1991]
09 – Julia Posz – (Technorama Promo)

If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 3, 2016

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