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On This Day In History for January 31, 2018
This is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining in 2017.
- It was on this date in 1606, that Guy Fawkes, as part of the Gunpowder Plot, is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
- Also today in 1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
- 155 years ago today, Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
- Also on January 31, 1930, 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
- January 31, 1949, These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
- It was also this date in 1950 that United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
- Also today in 1958, the first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
- Ham the Chimp travels into outer space aboard Mercury-Redstone on this date in 1961.
- It was 51 years ago today, that The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
- That same date in 1971, Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, liftoff for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon aboard Apollo 14.
- It was on this date in 2010, that Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Theodore William Richards, born on this date in 1868.
- American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Irving Langmuir was born 136 years ago today.
- Sofya Yanovskaya, the Russian mathematician and historian was born 121 years ago today.
- American actress, singer, and dancer, Carol Channing, born on this date in 1921.
- Born January 31, 1921, American tenor and actor Mario Lanza.
- Norman Mailer, the American journalist and author was born 94 years ago today.
- Also turning 89 today is American computer scientist and engineer Irma Wyman.
- Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1929.
- American actor and producer, James Franciscus was born 83 years ago today.
- American actress, Suzanne Pleshette, born on this date in 1937.
Listener Birthdays
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- 25 – Kreg Steppe
- 26 – Will The Computer Guy
- 27 – Mark in Memphis
- 27 – Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast
- 29 – Sarah P. from NJ… who was born in OK, moved to VA, married Brad P, moved to NJ, and is now back in VA
- 01 – Matt Baum aka Racer X, Pittsburgh PA
- 01 – Brandon Kirkwold – MN
- 02 – Gary Lindros – aka Gary from Jacksonville – Groundhog’s Day Rules!!!
- 02 – Chuck Provenzano aka podlurker aka Chuck’s evil twin
- 02 – Oreo Cookie Monster
- 03 – Euan Campbell McGregor – Scotland, UK
- 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 January 31, 2018
News
- We All Nearly Missed the Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Recorded – Slashdot
- You could soon be manufacturing your own drugs—thanks to 3D printing | Science | AAAS
- NASA Runs Successful First Tests of Compact Nuclear Reactor for Mars Base
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