Episode 620: Are You On The Naughty List?

 

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  • Jorge – Still on 616, a toaster in Dutch is ‘brood rooster’ basically ‘bread griller’
  • Question of the Week: What problem from the 1980s and 90s no longer exists?

On This Day In History for December 2, 2020

This is the 337th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining in 2020.

  • It was on this date in 1927, that Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveiled the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
  • On December 2, 1939, New York City’s LaGuardia Airport opened.
  • Also on December 2, 1942, during the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
  • 38 years ago today, at the University of Utah, Barney Clark became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
  • That same date in 1993, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-61, to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

  • American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus, Charles Edward Ringling, born on this date in 1863.
  • Peter Carl Goldmark, the Hungarian-American engineer was born 114 years ago today.

Listener Birthdays

  • 2 – Ben Fryxell from the MacMania Podcast
  • 6 – SuperMoonMan
  • 7 – Peter aka Zzippster from the Zzipp and Co. Podcast, Weymouth, Dorset, UK
  • 8 – DanDman
  • 8 – Gydian (Michael H.)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 2, 2020

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  • What’s something cool you recently learned about?
  • What problems do we have now that didn’t exist in the 1980s and 1990s?

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