Episode 796: Quantum Mechanics for the Rest of Us

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On This Day In History for February 4, 2026

This is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining in 2026.

• It was on this date in 1789, that George Washington was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
• Also today in 1825, The Ohio Legislature authorized the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
• Lunar Orbiter 3 lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft on this date in 1967.
• Also on February 4, 2004, Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• German violinist and composer, Johann Ludwig Bach, born on this date in 1677.
• German physicist and engineer, Ludwig Prandtl was born 151 years ago today.
• Reinhold Rudenberg, German-American inventor and a pioneer of electron microscopy was born on that same date in 1883.
• Australian paleoanthropologist, Raymond Dart, born on this date in 1893.
• Charles Lindbergh, the American pilot and explorer was born 124 years ago today.
• American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, born on this date in 1913.
• Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor was born on that same date in 1923.

Listener Birthdays

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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 4, 2026

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News

• 13,000-Year-Old Cosmic Airburst Triggered ‘Impact Winter’ and Mass Extinction, Research Suggests | Technology News
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• New Research Reveals Humans Have a Remote Touch “Seventh Sense”

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• Screaming Wi-Fi: Converting wireless traffic into analog static

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