Technorama Ep461 : New Years Celebration

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What sort of geek gifts did you get this year?
- Justin: My friend bought me a book pillow from Thinkgeek. My cats promptly took it over and I haven’t used it since.
- Wayne: Does a Rush R40 DVD set count as a geeky gift?
- Gary: My wife got me this precious moments scene. I so want to cosplay it and take a picture.

On This Day In History for January 6, 2016
This is the sixth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining in 2016.

It was on this date in 1838 that Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
It was 109 years ago today that Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift on this date in 1912.
Also today in 1929, Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India’s poorest and sick people.
January 6, 1930, The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
Thomas Edison submits his last patent application on this date in 1931.
Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world on this date in 1947.
It was 42 years ago today in response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
Also today in 1994, Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

French martyr and saint, Joan of Arc, born on this date in 1412.
Thomas Fincke, the Danish mathematician and physicist was born today in 1561.
Also born on this date in 1807, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist, Joseph Petzval.
Born January 6, 1822, German archaeologist and businessman Heinrich Schliemann.
Actor, director, and screenwriter, Tom Mix was born today in 1880.
Born on that same date in 1899, German engineer Heinrich Nordhoff.
Actor and producer, Danny Thomas was also born today in 1912.
Today is also the birthday of Finnish astronomer, Liisi Oterman.
If this man hadn’t been born, Marty McFly would have had a totally different time machine. John DeLorean, would have been 91 today.
Since we haven’t had a Russian name yet, it’s also the birthday of engineer and astronaut Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov born today in 1933.
Computer scientist and academic Susan B. Horwitz would have been 61 today.
Astrophysicist and astronaut, Michael Foale turns 59.
And finally, Daryl from the Walking Dead, Norman Reedus celebrates his 47th birthday today.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 6, 2016
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