Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1tm">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * What movie could have been much shorter if the main characters just used a little common sense? (no fair saying ‘all of them’)<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10158938803613455">Chuck’s answers</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10156916788101671">Technorama answers</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10156937039326319">Kreg’s answers</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for May 6, 2020<br> This is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1835, that James Gordon Bennett, Sr. published the first issue of the New York Herald.<br> * 131 years ago today, The Eiffel Tower was officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.<br> * The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people were killed on this date in 1937.<br> * That same date in 1940, John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.<br> * Also today in 1941, The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.<br> * That same date in 1941, At California’s March Field, Bob Hope performed his first USO show.<br> * Also on May 6, 1949, EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, ran its first operation..<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * French mathematician and academic, Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, born on this date in 1769.<br> * German engineer and author, Max Eyth was born 184 years ago today.<br> * Born May 6, 1848, English chemist and academic Henry Edward Armstrong.<br> * Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, born on this date in 1856.<br> * Born May 6, 1872, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Willem de Sitter.<br> * Júlio César de Mello e Souza, the Brazilian mathematician and author was born 125 years ago today.<br> * Born May 6, 1896, Swedish physicist and academic Rolf Maximilian Sievert.<br> * French mathematician and academic, André Weil, born on this date in 1906.<br> * Born May 6, 1915, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Orson Welles.<br> * American physicist and astronomer, Robert H. Dicke was born 104 years ago today.<br> * American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Bob Seger, born on this date in 1945.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1961, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, George Clooney.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays May 6-12<br> <br> * 6 – Amber Pace (not really a listener, but a mother and a wife of listeners)<br> * 6 – Bill Barbour<br> * 6 – Steve Bickle<br> * 8 – Curtis Parish<br> * 12 – Amanda Huggenkiss<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 6, 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.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenNyl8MEsC_eVDvCerLe8wNvhgtjg2d7F0Yj0IFYl4dOU2uA/viewform">Birthday Calendar</a> link.<br> <br> News<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/world/star-black-hole-chandra-scn/index.html">This star survived a close call with a black hole. Eventually, it will become a planet – CNN</a><br> * <a href="https://spacenews.com/spacex-to-test-starlink-sun-visor-to-reduce-brightness/">SpaceX to test Starlink “sun visor” to reduce brightness – SpaceNews.com</a><br> * <a href="https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/zoom-on-the-farm-how-to-meet-goats-over-the-internet/">Zoom on the farm: How to meet goats over the internet | WOODTV.</a>
