Episode 746: Keep Calm and Geek On

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Kreg Steppe

 

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On This Day In History for June 26, 2024

This is the 178th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining in 2024.

  • It was on this date in 1886, that Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
  • The first Grand Prix motor race was held at Le Mans on this date in 1906.
  • 115 years ago today, The Science Museum in London came into existence as an independent entity.
  • Also today in 1927, The Cyclone roller coaster opened on Coney Island.
  • That same date in 1936, saw the initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
  • 82 years ago today was the first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
  • It was 79 years ago today that The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
  • William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor on this date in 1948.
  • That same date in 1974, The Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
  • It was also this date in 1977 that Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
  • 27 years ago today, J. K. Rowling published the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in the United Kingdom.
  • It was also this date in 2000 that The Human Genome Project announced the completion of a “rough draft” sequence.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

  • Swedish chemist and mineralogist, Georg Brandt, born on this date in 1694.
  • Born June 26, 1730, French astronomer and academic Charles Messier.
  • 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer, William Thomson, born on this date in 1824.
  • Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician was born on that same date in 1878.
  • Willy Messerschmitt, the German engineer and businessman was born 126 years ago today.
  • English computer scientist and physicist, Maurice Wilkes, born on this date in 1913.
  • American computer scientist Robert Everett was born 103 years ago today.
  • Pavel Belyayev, Soviet soldier, pilot and cosmonaut was born on that same date in 1925.
  • American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Robert Coleman Richardson was born 87 years ago today.

Listener Birthdays

  • 15 – Miss Eliza Sea from Wingin’ It 3D
  • 16 – Joe Edmisson
  • 16 – Jason from The Angry Geek
  • 17 – Digital Dan from the Hook Show
  • 18 – Luke (platypuss72) from UK
  • 18 – Xianfox from Appleton
  • 19 – Steven (sphen603) from Wichita, Kansas
  • 21 – Ascii Adam from the Hook Show
  • 22 – Lance Heath
  • 22 – Jack Stevens
  • 22 – Chris Martinez (Scotland)
  • 25 – Mark Sheppard (Wichita, Kansas) Born 1957
  • 25 – Jim Guckin from Philadelphia, Pa
  • 26 – Patrick Norton
  • 26 – Daughter of Will The Computer Guy
  • 27 – Jordan Burkhead, daughter of Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast
  • 29 – Martin McKeay (Accch, this is the Big 40!)
  • 29 – Gilles Laurent
  • 30 – Alexis Duran (ADdude)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June  26, 2024

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    • Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (Netflix)
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  • If we discovered an alien civilization, besides language, how would you try and communicate with them?

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