Technorama Ep 395: Brace yourselves, Technorama is coming

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Kreg Steppe

Coming up in this episode…

  • Klingon
  • Time Capsules
  • …and Sweet, Sweet 80’s goodness

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On This Day In History for January 8, 2014

This is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining in 2014.

  • It was on this date in 1835 that the United States national debt is zero for the only time.
  • Also on the same date in 1889, Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’ — his punched card calculator.
  • The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system today in 1904
  • Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched 41 years ago today.
  • Today in 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be “perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time”.
  • AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions on January 8, 1982
  • and 20 years ago today 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.

Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:

  • German astronomer Johannes Fabricius born on this date in 1587
  • Also born today in 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company
  • Mathematician Richard Courant was born today in 1888
  • The original Doctor Who, actor William Hartnell was born today in 1908
  • Born on this date in 1923, Computer scientist and author Joseph Weizenbaum
  • And if your birthday is today you also celebrate it with:
    • 81 year old journalist Charles Osgood
    • The king of rock-n-roll – Elvis Presley
    • Game show host Bob Eubanks
    • Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
    • A man too smart to listen to Technorama, physicist and author Stephen Hawking
    • and singer, songwriter, producer and actor David Bowie

and don’t forget… Thursday January 9 is the 7th birthday of the iPhone.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 8, 2014

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