CCT#292: If at first you dont succeed Tron Tron again

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Kreg Steppe
Coming up in this episode…
  • Change the science books – again
  • If at first you don’t succeed, Tron, Tron again.
  • We’ve got some New Years resolution ideas for you
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On This Day In History
  • It was on December 29, 1860 that the first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
  • On this date in 1939 was the first flight of the Consolidated B-24.
  • KC2XAK  of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF)  television station to operate a daily schedule on December 29, 1948
  • Ten years later, the Lisbon Metro begins operation.
  • And it was on this date in 1965 that filming began on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in England.
Happy Birthday goes out on this date to:
  • German physicisc Johann Christian Poggendorff, born on this date in 1796
  • December 29, 1800 marks the birthday of American Inventor Charles Goodyear
  • Dutch mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician was born on this date in 1856
  • Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget, was born today in 1921
  • and finally, American Astronaut Nancy J. Currie turns 52 today
  • …and that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 29, 2010
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