Episode 687: Then it hit me!

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On This Day In History for September 28, 2022

This is the 271st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining in 2022.

• It was on this date in 1066, that William the Conqueror landed in England, beginning the Norman conquest
• September 28, 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrived at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California.
• It was also this date in 1889 that The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defined the length of a metre
• 110 years ago today, Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army became the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash
• It was also this date in 1924 that The first aerial circumnavigation was completed by a team from the US Army
• It was 94 years ago today, that Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin
• Also on September 28, 1951, CBS made the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product was discontinued less than a month later
• Falcon 1 became the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission. on this date in 2008

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (d. 479 BC), Confucius, born on this date in -551.
• French astronomer and mathematician, Ismaël Bullialdus was born 417 years ago today.
• Prosper Mérimée, the French archaeologist, historian, and author was born 219 years ago today.
• Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1852.
• British astronomer and meteorologist, Isis Pogson was born 170 years ago today.
• Paul Ulrich Villard, the French chemist and physicist was born 162 years ago today.
• Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician was born on that same date in 1893.
• American television host, Ed Sullivan, born on this date in 1901.
• American broadcaster, founded CBS, William S. Paley was born 121 years ago today.
• American spy, Ethel Rosenberg, born on this date in 1915.
• Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician was born on that same date in 1925.
• Seymour Cray, the American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company was born 97 years ago today.
• American singer-songwriter and producer, Ben E. King was born 84 years ago today.
• American mathematician and academic, Rhonda Hughes, born on this date in 1947.
• Also turning 66 today is Colombian-Italian mathematician and author Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla.

Listener Birthdays

• 1 – 10/1 = 101 & Stephen Wesche (From Saint Louis Missouri) (Pronounced Like the first part of the word “Wet” and the word “She”)
• 2 – Adam Rumpke

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September  28, 2022

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• Quantum Tunneling Makes DNA More Unstable – Scientific American

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• In 50 years, what will people be nostalgic for?

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