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On This Day In History for March 21, 2018
This is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining in 2018.
- It was on this date in 1871, that Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
- Also today in 1925, The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
- It was 90 years ago today, that Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo transAtlantic flight.
- It was also this date in 1963 that Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
- NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes on this date in 1965.
- 53 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
- Also today in 1970, The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
- Also on March 21, 1994, The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
- Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon on this date in 1999.
- It was 12 years ago today, that The social media site Twitter is founded.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- American inventor, Mary Dixon Kies, born on this date in 1752.
- Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician and physicist was born 250 years ago today.
- Born March 21, 1839, Russian pianist and composer Modest Mussorgsky.
- American astronomer and astrophysicist, Antonia Maury, born on this date in 1866.
- George David Birkhoff, the American mathematician was born 134 years ago today.
- Jewish-Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle, Friedrich Waismann was born 122 years ago today.
- Forrest Mars, Sr., American candy maker, created M&M’s and Mars bar was born on that same date in 1904.
- American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery, Julio Gallo, born on this date in 1910.
- Born March 21, 1911, African-American scientist and inventor Walter Lincoln Hawkins.
- Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter was born on that same date in 1922.
- Born March 21, 1927, American-German astronomer and critic Halton Arp.
- American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, Walter Gilbert is 86 today.
- Also turning 72 today is Welsh-English actor Timothy Dalton.
- American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Eddie Money, born on this date in 1949.
- Also turning 65 today is English computer scientist and academic Steve Furber.
- Also born on that same date in 1962, American actor, Matthew Broderick.
- American actress, producer, and talk show host, Rosie O’Donnell is 56 today.
Listener Birthdays
- 21 – “Krazy Joe” Fiore, MegaPodtastic
- 23 – Steve Riekeberg a.k.a. MissingIntellect of Geek Cred
- 23 – Richard Parkman
- 25 – Nicholas St Gabriel
- 26 – Chuck Tomasi
- 26 – Brina Baird in Hampton, VA
- If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 21, 2018
News
- Google Maps using landmarks, what’s next?!
- NASA wants your pictures of clouds to verify its satellites’ data
- Steve Jobs’ Half-Assed Job Application Sells for $174,000
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Remember When
- Ancient d20 die emerges from the ashes of time – CNET
- Qbert broken by machine learning in a way no human ever would – Business Insider
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- Take a Star Wars quote and swap out one word with sausage
- Play Joust, Robotron: 2048, and other classic games at Ready Player One’s online arcade – The Verge
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