Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1qK">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> <br> <br> * Q: What film sequel is better than the original:* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10155991747851671">Technorama</a>* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10157675177243455">Chuck</a>* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10155991794411671">Kreg</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for April 24, 2019<br> <br> <br> <br> This is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining in 2019.<br> <br> <br> <br> * It was on this date in 1558, that Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.* April 24, 1704, The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.* Also today in 1800, The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.* April 24, 1885, American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.* On April 24, 1895, Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop “Spray”.* 106 years ago today, The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.* April 24, 1914, The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.* Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance on this date in 1916.* April 24, 1918, the first tank-to-tank combat in World War 1, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.* Also on April 24, 1922, The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.* 66 years ago today, Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.* April 24, 1967, Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.* It was 29 years ago today, that the Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.<br> <br> <br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> <br> <br> * Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper, Gideon Sundback, born on this date in 1880.* Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic was born on that same date in 1899.* American actor, director, and producer, Richard Donner is 89 today.* American actress, singer, and dancer, Shirley MacLaine, born on this date in 1934.* Born April 24, 1940, American author Sue Grafton.* Also turning 78 today is Australian-English guitarist and composer John Williams.* American lawyer and politician, 54th Mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, born on this date in 1942.* Also turning 77 today is American singer, actress, activist, and producer Barbra Streisand.* Also born on that same date in 1947, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Roger D. Kornberg.* American actor, Michael O’Keefe is 64 today.* American director, producer, and screenwriter, Eric Kripke, born on this date in 1974.* Also born on that same date in 1982, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress, Kelly Clarkson.<br> <br> <br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> <br> <br>
