Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1sb">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> <br> <br> * You have the power to rewind time, what’s the first thing you would do?<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10158304664488455">Chuck’s responses</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10156462673916319">Kreg’s responses</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for November 20, 2019<br> This is the 324th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining in 2019.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1789, that New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.<br> * November 20, 1805, Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.<br> * It was on this date in 1820, that An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.).<br> * November 20, 1947, The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.<br> * It was on this date in 1969, that Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.<br> * It was 34 years ago today that Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.<br> * It was also this date in 1998 that Zarya – the first space station module component for the International Space Station was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * French astronomer, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, born on this date in 1715.<br> * José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez, the Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer was born 282 years ago today.<br> * Victor D’Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist was born on that same date in 1841.<br> * William Coblentz, the American physicist was born 146 years ago today.<br> * Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist was born on that same date in 1889.<br> * French mathematician, André Bloch, born on this date in 1893.<br> * British-American journalist and author, Alistair Cooke was born 111 years ago today.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1939, American actor and comedian, Dick Smothers.<br> * American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor, Joe Walsh, born on this date in 1947.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1968, American astronaut, James Dutton.<br> <br> Listener birthdays for November 13-26:<br> <br> * 15 – Jackie Breller (Krazy Joe & Christine’s daughter)<br> * 15 – Chuck Jolley aka nitestarr – (Horn Lake, MS)<br> * 22 – <a href="http://wunderphul.blogspot.com/">Tom Posz</a> – (from California, USA)<br> * 25 – <a href="http://www.missingalert.com/">Lane Williams</a><br> * 26 – Joanie<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 20, 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.reuters.com/article/us-x57-plane-nasa-idUSKBN1XJ01G">NASA unveils its first electric airplane – a work in progress – Reuters</a><br> * <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/university-graduate-child-genius-scli-intl/index.html">Nine-year-old child genius to graduate university – CNN</a><br> <br> Hacks & Strange Stories<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.upworthy.com/speech-pathologist-teaches-her-dog-to-use-a-speech-pad-and-now-it-communicates-in-sentences">Speech pathologist teaches her dog to use a soundboard and now...</a>
