Summary: <br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> Voice mail from Gary in FL<br> Voice mail from anonymous<br> Question of the week<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10158471248318455">Chuck’s responses</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10156585717756319">Kreg’s Responses </a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for January 8, 2020<br> This is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1790, that George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.<br> It was also this date in 1828 that The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.<br> January 8, 1835, The United States national debt is zero for the only time.<br> It was on this date in 1889, Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’ — his punched card calculator.<br> Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched on this date in 1973.<br> It was 39 years ago today, that A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be “perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time”.<br> January 8, 1982, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions as part of the breakup of the Bell System.<br> It was on this date in 1994, that Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> German astronomer and academic, Johannes Fabricius, born on this date in 1587.<br> Frank Nelson Doubleday, the American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company was born 158 years ago today.<br> German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Walther Bothe was born 129 years ago today.<br> William Hartnell, the English actor was born 112 years ago today.<br> Born January 8, 1911, American actress, dancer, and author Gypsy Rose Lee.<br> German-American computer scientist and author, Joseph Weizenbaum, born on this date in 1923.<br> American singer, guitarist, and actor, Elvis Presley was born 85 years ago today.<br> American game show host and producer, Bob Eubanks is 82 today.<br> Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter was born on that same date in 1941.<br> Born January 8, 1942, English physicist and author Stephen Hawking.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays (January 1-14)<br> <br> 03 – Thomas Gideon (<a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/page/http%2F%2Fthecommandline.net">The Command Line Podcast</a>)<br> 06 – Steve Therrien (Canada)<br> 08 – Elvis!<br> 09 – <a href="http://www.thebritandyankee.com/">Lingo</a> from <a href="http://www.thebritandyankee.com/">the Brit & Yankee pubcast</a><br> 14 – Glynne Tolar<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 8, 2020<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.sciencealert.com/another-earth-size-planet-has-been-found-practically-next-door">Astronomers Have Found an Earth-Size Planet Practically Next-Door to Us</a><br> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-04/reporters-from-around-the-world-get-a-look-at-mars-2020-mission-rover-at-jet-propulsion-laboratory">Reporters from around the world get a look at Mars 2020 mission rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a><br> <br> Hacks & Strange Stories<br> <br> <a href="http://nautil.us/blog/memories-can-be-injected-and-survive-amputation-and-metamorphosis?utm_source=pocket-newtab">The Bizarre Science of Memory</a>
