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- Calvin & Hobbes
- Star Wars
- Carl Sagan on Drugs (Sorta)
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On This Day In History for October 15, 2014
This is the 288th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 77 days remaining in 2014.
- It was on this date in 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
- That same date in 1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
- The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first transAtlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey on this date in 1928.
- October 15, 1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
- The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated on this date in 1939.
- 63 years ago today, Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
- Today in 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time 58 years ago.
- 17 years ago today, the first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth’s atmosphere.
- That same year, the Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
- and on this date in 2001 – NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born on this date in 1608
- American astronomer Asaph Hall born today in 1829
- Also born on this date is Astronomer Jesse L. Greenstein
- Author Mario Puzo, “The GodFather” was born 94 years ago
- Businessman and author Lee Iacocca turns 90 today
- and finally the man who played Spock’s father, actor Mark Lenard, would have been 90 also.
Don’t forget… it’s also Global Handwashing Day
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 15, 2014
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Media Corner
- George Lucas didn’t remake ‘Empire Strikes Back,’ you did
- James Earl Jones Will Voice Vader On Star Wars Rebels—And Soon
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