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On This Day In History for June 29, 2022
This is the 180th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining in 2022.
- It was on this date in 1613, that the Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare’s playing company (the Lord Chamberlain’s Men) burned to the ground.
- George Edward Gouraud recorded Handel’s Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music on this date in 1888
- That same date in 1927, The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completed the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii
- Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docked with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. on this date in 1995
- Also today in 2007, Apple Inc. released its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Italian astronomer and academic, Angelo Secchi, born on this date in 1818.
- George Washington Goethals, the American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal was born 164 years ago today.
- William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic was born on that same date in 1861.
- George Ellery Hale, the American astronomer and journalist was born 154 years ago today.
- Born June 29, 1903, English engineer, developed the H2S radar Alan Blumlein.
- Polish mathematician, Witold Hurewicz, born on this date in 1904.
- Born June 29, 1914, Greek-American mathematician and academic Christos Papakyriakopoulos.
- Also born on that same date in 1944, American actor, Gary Busey.
- Also turning 67 today is American colonel, pilot, and astronaut Charles J. Precourt.
- English physicist and academic, Terry Wyatt, born on this date in 1957.
- Also born on that same date in 1962, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, George D. Zamka.
Listener Birthdays
- June 30 – Alexis Duran (ADdude)
- July 4 – Mike McBride
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 29, 2022
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News
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- New phone
- Pool monitoring system
- Teleprompter
- Kreg’s Toy
- Buzz Lightyear has really flown in space and here’s the video | Space
- Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot
- Physicists Say They’ve Built an Atom Laser That Can Run ‘Forever’
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Remember When
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- The Watch For Which James Bond Gave Up His Rolex: The SEIKO TV Watch — sabukaru
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Geek Library
- Meta shows off its $10 billion VR investment
- 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon by Aaron A. Reed — Kickstarter
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