Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1rJ">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/10158017020263455">Chuck Tomasi – What was that toy that you just couldn’t live…</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10156260717401319">Kreg Steppe – Technorama Question of the Week: What was that toy…</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10158040203068455">Chuck – What statistic blew your mind?</a><br> <br> On This Day In History for August 28, 2019<br> This is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining in 2019.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1609, Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.<br> That same date in 1789, William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn later named Enceladus.<br> It was on this date in 1830, that The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in U.S. railroads.<br> Also today in 1845, The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.<br> The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted on this date in 1859.<br> It was also this date in 1867 that The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.<br> Also today in 1898, Caleb Bradham’s beverage “Brad’s Drink” is renamed “Pepsi-Cola”.<br> That same date in 1937, Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.<br> Also on August 28, 1993, The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> French mathematician and philosopher, Antoine Augustin Cournot, born on this date in 1801.<br> Italian-American engineer, Secondo Campini was born 115 years ago today.<br> Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate, Tjalling Koopmans, born on this date in 1910.<br> Born August 28, 1913, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation Jack Dreyfus.<br> Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator was born on that same date in 1917.<br> Canadian physicist and engineer, John Herbert Chapman was born 98 years ago today.<br> Also turning 80 today is English mathematician and academic John Kingman.<br> American actor and singer, David Soul is 76 today.<br> Also born on that same date in 1965, Canadian singer-songwriter, Shania Twain.<br> American actor and comedian, Jack Black, born on this date in 1969.<br> Also born on that same date in 1969, Canadian actor, director, and producer, Jason Priestley.<br> Also turning 45 today is Swedish game designer and programmer Johan Andersson.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> August –<br> <br> 30 – Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden<br> 31 – Tim Downing<br> <br> <br> September-<br> <br> 01 – David Kloempken<br> 02 – Scott Tyler<br> <br> <br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 28, 2019<br> <br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br> News<br> <br> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-divorce-space-crime-investigation-identity-2019-8">NASA investigating first alleged crime in space after accusation – Business Insider</a><br> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-08-complex-quantum-teleportation.html">Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time</a><br> <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/employees-connect-nuclear-plant-to-the-internet-so-they-can-mine-cryptocurrency/">Employees connect nuclear plant to the internet so they can mi...</a>
