Episode 596: Connect Four




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Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1tc">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br>  <br>  <br> Feedback<br> <br> You wake up, it’s 2050. What’s the first thing you Google?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10156846481976671">Technorama answers</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10156846481976671">Chuck answers</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10156846481976671">Kreg answers</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for April15, 2020<br> This is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1755, that Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in London.<br> It was 203 years ago today, that Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.<br> April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln’s death.<br> That same date in 1892, The General Electric Company was formed.<br> It was on this date in 1896, that Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.<br> It was also this date in 1912 that The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.<br> Also today in 1923, Insulin became generally available for use by people with diabetes.<br> Also on April 15, 1924, Rand McNally published its first road atlas.<br> That same date in 1947, Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.<br> 68 years ago today, First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.<br> It was 65 years ago today, that McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Italian mathematician and astronomer, Pietro Cataldi, born on this date in 1552.<br> Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and geographer was born on that same date in 1641.<br> Swiss mathematician and physicist, Leonhard Euler, born on this date in 1707.<br> German astronomer and academic, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was born 227 years ago today.<br> Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician was born on that same date in 1809.<br> German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Johannes Stark, born on this date in 1874.<br> Born April 15, 1896, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate Nikolay Semyonov.<br> Robert Mills, American physicist and academic was born on that same date in 1927.<br> American actress and producer, Elizabeth Montgomery, born on this date in 1933.<br> Also turning 69 today is American engineer and astronaut Marsha Ivins.<br> American captain and astronaut, John L. Phillips is 69 today.<br> Also born on that same date in 1982,  Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Seth Rogen.<br> English actress, Emma Watson is 30 today.<br> <br> <br> Listener Birthdays (April 15-21)<br> <br> <br> <br> 16 – Donna Tomasi<br> <br> <br> 18 – Skaifey (Anthony)<br> <br> <br> 19 – Amanda (SusietheGeek’s daughter &amp; Geek in Training)<br> <br> <br> 21 – Kim and Kreg’s Anniversary<br> <br> <br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 15, 2020<br> <br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the <a href="https://docs.google."></a>