Summary: <br> Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Mini Brains<br> * Robots<br> * Google Duplex<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1nj">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> On This Day In History for May 16, 2018<br> This is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining in 2018.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1568, that Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.<br> * May 16, 1770, A 14 -year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.<br> * It was 175 years ago today, that The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.<br> * Also on May 16, 1866, The United States Congress establishes the nickel.<br> * Also today in 1888, Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.<br> * May 16, 1891, The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).<br> * That same date in 1919, A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.<br> * It was also this date in 1929 that In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.<br> * That same date in 1951, The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.<br> * May 16, 1960, Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.<br> * That same date in 1969, Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.<br> * 30 years ago today, A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.<br> * It was 27 years ago today, that Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.<br> * On May 16, 2011, STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * Italian mathematician and philosopher, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, born on this date in 1718.<br> * Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten was born on that same date in 1804.<br> * Born May 16, 1821, Russian mathematician and statistician Pafnuty Chebyshev.<br> * Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone, David Edward Hughes was born 187 years ago today.<br> * Henry Fonda, the American actor was born 113 years ago today.<br> * American pianist and entertainer, Liberace, born on this date in 1919.<br> * Also turning 93 today is American astronomer Nancy Roman.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1938, American computer scientist and academic, Ivan Sutherland.<br> * Canadian physician and astronaut, Dafydd Williams, born on this date in 1954.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1966, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress, Janet Jackson.<br> * American actress, reality television personality, and author, Tori Spelling, born on this date in 1973.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 22 – Tim Elliott<br> * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.
