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- In the latest episode, 634, Kreg mentions having a lien on his house for an unreturned VCR rental. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, I believe. He states that he paid the $80 lien, but also mentioned that the video store was no longer in business. So my question is, who did Kreg pay?
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On This Day In History for April 14, 2021
This is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining in 2021.
- It was on this date in 1561, that A celestial phenomenon was reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle.
- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth on this date in 1865; Lincoln lived till the following day.
- Also on April 14, 1894, the first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City, United States, using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- That same date in 1902, James Cash Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
- Also today in 1912, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th)
- 94 years ago today, the first Volvo car premiered in Gothenburg, Sweden
- That same date in 1928, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reached Greenly Island, Canada – the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west
- Also today in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck was first published by the Viking Press
- It was on this date in 1958, that the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 fell from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours
- On April 14, 1981, STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completed its first test flight
- It was 18 years ago today, that The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist was born on that same date in 1629.
- Flemish cartographer and geographer, Abraham Ortelius, born on this date in 1527.
- English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge, Cecil Chubb, born on this date in 1876.
- Born April 14, 1882, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher Moritz Schlick.
- Also born on that same date in 1932, American singer-songwriter and musician, Loretta Lynn.
- Armenian-Russian nuclear physicist, Yuri Oganessian, born on this date in 1933.
- Also turning 79 today is Russian engineer and astronaut Valentin Lebedev.
- Also born on that same date in 1950, American physician and geneticist, Francis Collins.
- American actor, Anthony Michael Hall, born on this date in 1968.
- Also born on that same date in 1977, American actress and producer, Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Listener Birthdays
- 7 – P.C. Haring
- 14 – Danny Harnish
- 16 – Donna Tomasi
- 18 – Skaifey (Anthony)
- 19 – Amanda (SusietheGeek’s daughter & Geek in Training)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 14, 2021
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