Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Stephen Hawking<br> * William Shatner<br> * Needle Man!<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1nA">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10156867443928455?comment_id=10156867613293455&notif_id=1529268363129759&notif_t=feed_comment">What superpower would you NOT want?</a><br> <br> On This Day In History for June 20, 2018<br> This is the 171st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining in 2018.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1248, that The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.<br> * It was also this date in 1787 that Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the ‘United States’.<br> * Also today in 1819, The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.<br> * June 20, 1837, Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.<br> * Also on June 20, 1840, Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.<br> * It was on this date in 1877, that Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.<br> * June 20, 1893, Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.<br> * Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return on this date in 1900.<br> * It was also this date in 1944 that The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.<br> * June 20, 1945, The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.<br> * It was 55 years ago today, that Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called “red telephone” link between Washington and Moscow.<br> * June 20, 1975, The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as “summer blockbusters”.<br> * It was on this date in 1990, that Asteroid Eureka is discovered.<br> * The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida on this date in 2003.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * American astronomer and author, Mary R. Calvert, born on this date in 1884.<br> * Born June 20, 1889, Greek-South African astronomer and academic John S. Paraskevopoulos.<br> * Lloyd Hall, the American chemist and academic was born 124 years ago today.<br> * Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor was born on that same date in 1909.<br> * Also turning 104 today is Turkish archaeologist and academic Muazzez İlmiye Çığ.<br> * American actor and producer, Martin Landau was born 90 years ago today.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1931, American actress, Olympia Dukakis.<br> * Also turning 76 today is American singer-songwriter and producer Brian Wilson.<br> * Canadian singer and guitarist, Anne Murray is 73 today.<br> * American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, Lionel Richie, born on this date in 1949.<br> * Also turning 67 today is American actress and voice artist Tress MacNeille.<br> * American actor, John Goodman, born on this date in 1952.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1960, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor, John Taylor.<br> * Also turning 51 today is American-Australian actress Nicole Kidman.<br> * Russian mathematician and academic, Misha Verbitsky, born on this date in 1969.<br> <br>
