Technorama Ep 474 : Turn the corner

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Singing the blues
Xena-phobia
God doesn’t do lawsuits

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Guest Host: Ben Ragunton

On This Day In History for May 11, 2016

This is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining in 2016.

It was on this date in 330 that Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
May 11, 868, A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book
That same date in 1792, Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River
May 11, 1820, HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched
158 years ago today, Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded 89 years ago today
It was 44 years ago today that United States performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.
29 years ago today, In Baltimore, the first heart–lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine
Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format 19 years ago today

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, born on this date in 1752.
Also born on this date in 1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author.
Actor/comedian Phil Silvers was born today in 1911.
The man who played Mad Jack on Grizzly Adams and Uncle Jessie from The Dukes of Hazzard, actor Denver Pyle would have been 96 today.
Russian-American mathematician and theorist Eugene Dynkin, was born May 11, 1924
Born that same day and year, Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic
May 11, 1930 is the birthday of Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic, co-developed THE multiprogramming system.
Turning 82 today the man behind Labatt’s beer, Arthur Labatt.
and finally one of the original MTV VJs, Martha Quinn, is 57

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 11, 2016

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