Coming up in this episode…
- Privacy Dangers
- Fictional Superman
- and a Real life, Down to Earth Superman
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Introducing the team…
- Shout out to the chat room
- Happy Birthday to:
- 19 – Steven (sphen603) from Wichita, Kansas
- 21 – Ascii Adam from the Hook Show
- 22 – Lance Heath
- 22 – Jack Stevens
- 22 – Chris Martinez (Scotland)
- 25 – Mark Sheppard (Wichita, Kansas) Born 1957
- 25 – Jim Guckin from Philadelphia, Pa
- 26 – Patrick Norton
- 26 – Daughter of Will The Computer Guy
You know what, we’re going to be out for a couple weeks, let’s just finish up the month of June!
- 29 – Martin McKeay (Accch, this is the Big 40!)
- 30 – Alexis Duran (ADdude)
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On This Day In History for June 19, 2013
This is June 19, 2013 is the 170th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining in 2013.
- It was on this date in 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
- The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played on this date in 1846 under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
- The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford on this date in 1862.
- June 19, 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
- The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington 103 years ago today.
- That same date in 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York 60 years ago today.
- and today in 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher, born on this date in 1623
- Also born on this date in 1846 – Antonio Abetti, the Italian astronomer
- Madeleine Astor, one of the survivors from the RMS Titanic was born today in 1893.
- One of the best known of The Three Stooges was born today in 1897 – Moe Howard
- The founder of Foursquare, Dennis Crowley, turns 37 today
- And three famous actresses have birthdays today, Zoe Saldana turns 35, Phylicia Rashad is 65, and Kathleen Turner is 59. Happy birthday ladies!
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 19, 2013
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