Coming up in tonights show…
- Amazing automobile stories
- Laser Christmas tree
- Keyboards, keyboards, keyboards
On This Day in Tech History
- 1606 – The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery
depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, would
found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. - 1835 – The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio.
- 1843 – A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England.
- 1912 – William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship
General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is
pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after
three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison. - 1972 – The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- 2001 – A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Kh
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