Episode 739: Technorama is an inside job

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On This Day In History for April 10, 2024

This is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining in 2024.

• It was on this date in 837, that Halley’s Comet made its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometers/3.2 million miles).
• On April 10, 1606, The Virginia Company of London was established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
• Also today in 1710, The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, came into force in Great Britain.
• It was on this date in 1858, that after the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it was recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
• It was 158 years ago today that The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
• It was on this date in 1872, that The first Arbor Day was celebrated in Nebraska.
• That same date in 1912, RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
• April 10, 1916, The Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) was created in New York City.
• It was on this date in 1925, that The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• It was 85 years ago today that Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.’s “Big Book”, was first published.
• 54 years ago today, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
• Also on April 10, 2019, Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announced the first ever image of a black hole, which was located in the center of the M87 galaxy.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• German mathematician, physicist, and physician, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, born on this date in 1651.
• John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker was born on that same date in 1713.
• Born April 10, 1762, Italian physicist and academic Giovanni Aldini.
• Arnold Orville Beckman, the American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist was born 124 years ago today.
• American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Robert Burns Woodward was born 107 years ago today.
• Born April 10, 1927, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate Marshall Warren Nirenberg.
• Egyptian actor and screenwriter, Omar Sharif, born on this date in 1932.
• Also turning 68 today is English chemist and academic Carol V. Robinson.
• English computer scientist and academic, Carole Goble, born on this date in 1961.
• Also turning 56 today is American actor, producer, and screenwriter Orlando Jones.

Listener Birthdays

• 14 – Danny Harnish
• 16 – Donna Tomasi

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 10, 2024

• If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.

News

• NASA investigates whether debris that struck Florida home fell from space – The Washington Post
• Have Scientists Finally Made Sense of Hawking’s Famous Black Hole Formula? – Slashdot
• Voyager 1 Issue Tracked Down To Defective Memory Chip | Hackaday

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Media Corner

• 35 Fictional Locations You Can Visit Right Here in the Real World | Cracked.com
• New Disney animatronics breathe convincing life into its 2D characters – The Verge

Pass me the remote

• Chuck
  • Starcrash (MST3K) – Netflix
  • Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War – Netflix
  • Gentleman in Moscow – Paramount+
  • Why is this number everywhere?
  • The Most Important day in Tornado Science History – April 3, 1974
• Kreg
  • Resident Alien – Netflix
  • Lon.TV – YouTube

Geek Library

• Why Chicago Razed The First Skyscraper | The Field Building
• 12 NEW Arduino Projects!!! (2024 Edition)
• Let’s Make 80s Computers Talk | 1980s Commodore Speech Synthesizer
• 6 Theories of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• New York’s Lost Subway Entrances
• Faulty Sega Mega Drive Game | Can I Fix It?
• What’s on the rooftops of New York’s most famous skyscrapers? – IT’S HISTORY
• New York’s Liberty Island was a Military Fort

Question of the week

• What seems to be overpriced, but in reality is 100% worth it?

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