Technorama Ep 385: Obladi Oblada

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On This Day In History for October 9, 2013

This is October 9, it is the 282nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining in 2013.

  • It was on this date in 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
  • It was also today in 1604 that Supernova 1604 was sighted. It is the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way
  • Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California today in 1936.
  • 24 years ago today, an official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
  • October 9, 1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
  • The last flight of the SR-71 was on this date 14 years ago.
  • Today in 2003 – Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
  • and today in 2009, was the first lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.

Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:

  • German mathematician, physicist, and physician Johann Andreas Segner born on this date in 1704
  • Also born today in 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, the German physicist and astronomer
  • Joseph Friedman, the inventor of the bendy straw, was born 113 years ago today.
  • Actor Scott Bakula turns 59 today
  • Director Guillermo del Toro is 49
  • Actor Chris O’Dowd, “Roy” from one of our favorite shows “The IT Crowd” is 34.
  • As is actor Brandon Routh

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 9, 2013

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  • 13 – Jason Schwanz

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