Episode 655: After One Hot Minute

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On This Day In History for November 17, 2021

This is the 321st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining in 2021.

  • It was on this date in 1800, that The United States Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C
  • On November 17, 1820, Captain Nathaniel Palmer became the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
  • It was 74 years ago today, that American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observed the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century
  • Also on November 17, 1970,  The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft
  • 48 years ago today, In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.”
  • Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began on this date in 2003
  • Also on November 17, 2019, The first known case of COVID-19 was traced to a 55 -year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

  • German mathematician and astronomer, August Ferdinand Möbius, born on this date in 1790.
  • Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate, Eugene Wigner was born 119 years ago today.
  • Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company was born on that same date in 1906.
  • Born November 17, 1917, American mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari.
  • Also born on that same date in 1938,  Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist, Gordon Lightfoot.
  • American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor, Martin Scorsese, born on this date in 1942.
  • Also turning 78 today is American model and actress Lauren Hutton.

Listener Birthdays

  • Nov 22 – Tom Posz – (from California, USA)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November  17, 2021

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