CCT#210: Technorama Mars Mission

Coming up in tonights show…

  1. Presidential Candidates as D&D Characters
  2. YouTube multi-downloader
  3. The great Technorama 2008 challenge

On This Day in Tech History

  • 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
  • 1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful
    Confederate cruiser, was destroyed on her maiden voyage with cargo of
    munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
    The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years
    later by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee
    Spence.
  • 1915 – Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
  • 1916 – Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
  • 1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
  • 1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
  • 1969 – collapse of 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, UK, because of icing.
  • 1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins
    broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network
    C-SPAN.

Births

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