Episode 605: Interstellar Turnpike




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Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1uc">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> Q: What’s one show everyone should give a go?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157052754081671">Technorama</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159132509958455">Chuck</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for June 24, 2020<br> This is the 176th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 109, that Roman emperor Trajan inaugurated the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Rome.<br> June 24, 1374, A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.<br> Also today in 1497, John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.<br> June 24, 1604, Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.<br> That same date in 1717, The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England).<br> Also today in 1916, Mary Pickford became the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.<br> It was on this date in 1918, that First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.<br> It was 82 years ago today, that Pieces of a meteorite landed near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded.<br> It was on this date in 1947, that Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.<br> On June 24, 1949, The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, aired on NBC.<br> That same date in 1981, The Humber Bridge opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world’s longest bridge span for 17 years.<br> On June 24, 2012, Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, born on this date in 1771.<br> American inventor, Thomas Blanchard was born 232 years ago today.<br> Born June 24, 1852, German bacteriologist and academic Friedrich Loeffler.<br> American mathematician and academic (g. 1960), Oswald Veblen is 140 today.<br> Victor Francis Hess, the Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 137 years ago today.<br> American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company, Roy O. Disney was born 127 years ago today.<br> Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer was born on that same date in 1900.<br> William Penney, the Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist was born 111 years ago today.<br> Argentinian physicist and academic, Ernesto Sabato, born on this date in 1911.<br> Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author was born on that same date in 1915.<br> Born June 24, 1917, English cryptanalyst and numismatist Joan Clarke.<br> Al Molinaro, the American actor was born 101 years ago today.<br> Born June 24, 1924, Scottish astronomer and academic Archie Roy.<br> Martin Lewis Perl, the American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate was born 93 years ago today.<br> Also turning 91 today is American astronomer Carolyn S. Shoemaker.<br> English-American drummer, Mick Fleetwood, born on this date in 1942.<br> American colonel,