Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1uf">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> If you could hang with any fictional/non-fictional character through your quarantine, who would it be and why?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157093822026671">Technorama</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159193978723455">Chuck</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for July 8, 2020<br> This is the 190th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1497, that Vasco da Gama set sail on the first direct European voyage to India.<br> July 8, 1853, The Perry Expedition arrived in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.<br> 141 years ago today, Sailing ship USS Jeannette departed San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.<br> It was on this date in 1889, that The first issue of The Wall Street Journal was published.<br> Also today in 1932, The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.<br> 73 years ago today, Reports were broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.<br> On July 8, 1948, The United States Air Force accepted its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).<br> July 8, 1960, Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.<br> Also on July 8, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> French mathematician and academic, Christian Kramp, born on this date in 1760.<br> Francis Leopold McClintock, the Irish admiral and explorer was born 201 years ago today.<br> Born July 8, 1830, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State Frederick W. Seward.<br> American chemist and pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola, John Pemberton was born 189 years ago today.<br> German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, born on this date in 1838.<br> American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company, Eli Lilly was born 182 years ago today.<br> John D. Rockefeller, the American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company was born 181 years ago today.<br> Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Pyotr Kapitsa, born on this date in 1894.<br> Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1895.<br> Born July 8, 1904, French mathematician and academic Henri Cartan.<br> Russian engineer and astronaut, Vitaly Sevastyanov was born 85 years ago today.<br> Also born on that same date in 1949, Austrian-American chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur, Wolfgang Puck.<br> American actor and musician, Kevin Bacon, born on this date in 1958.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays (July 8-14)<br> <br> 8 – Trampas Whiteman (aka Dragonhelm)<br> 8 – Mark Lee (aka geekdad72) Stardate -351519.09<br> 8 – Alan Ralph (a.k.a. MonTemplar)<br> 8 – Kim Eaddy – Kreg’s Wife<br> 10 – KHD a.k.a. The Devin<br> 11 – Steven Truax (rednecktech)<br> 12 – Shadowbird712 of Shadowbird Studios (http://shadowbirdsrandomcrap.blogspot.com/) (Sorry for the cheap plug, y’all)<br> 12 – François Pominville nickname: Bookaroo (Year: 11110110001, Canada)<br> 13 – Ben Ragunton of TGGeeks<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 8, 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>
