Technorama Ep521 : The Reindeer’s Little Mess

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This is the 354th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days remaining in 2017.

It was on this date in 1606, that The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
It was 214 years ago today, that The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison on this date in 1924.
Also today in 1946, The popular Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
Also on December 20, 1951, The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
That same date in 1957, The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor on this date in 1967.
It was also this date in 1971 that The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
China successfully launches the Bolivian Túpac Katari 1 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on this date in 2013.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

French mathematician and cartographer, Oronce Finé, born on this date in 1494.
Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Jaroslav Heyrovský was born 127 years ago today.
Born December 20, 1901, American physicist and academic, invented the Van de Graaff generator Robert J. Van de Graaff.
American actor, John Hillerman, born on this date in 1932.
Also born on that same date in 1945, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer, Peter Criss.
English keyboard player and producer, Alan Parsons, born on this date in 1948.
English mathematician and academic, Geoffrey Grimmett is 67 today.
Also turning 41 today is Welsh game designer and businessman, co-founded Meteor Games Adam Powell.
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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 20, 2017

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