Summary: <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> Email from David Kloepmken<br> What movie plot hole ruined the entire experience for you?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157160200271671">Technorama</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159290055733455">Chuck</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10157185869626319">Kreg</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for August 5, 2020<br> This is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining in 2020<br> <br> It was on this date in 1583, that Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.<br> That same date in 1620, The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak..<br> 204 years ago today, The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds’s new invention of the first working electric telegraph as “wholly unnecessary”, preferring to continue using the semaphore.<br> Also on August 5, 1858, Cyrus West Field and others completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.<br> 136 years ago today, The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.<br> On August 5, 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.<br> August 5, 1914, In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light was installed.<br> It was on this date in 1926, that Harry Houdini performed his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.<br> It was 63 years ago today, that American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage “baby-boomers” by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuted on the ABC television network.<br> 58 years ago today, Nelson Mandela was jailed. He would not be released until 1990.<br> That same date in 1973, Mars 6 was launched from the USSR.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Norwegian mathematician and theorist, Niels Henrik Abel, born on this date in 1802.<br> Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities was born on that same date in 1862.<br> Carl Harries, the German chemist and academic was born 154 years ago today.<br> Born August 5, 1872, Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist, founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Oswaldo Cruz.<br> American actor, director, and screenwriter, John Huston was born 114 years ago today.<br> American pilot, engineer, and astronaut, Neil Armstrong, born on this date in 1930.<br> Also turning 86 today is Swedish engineer and theorist Karl Johan Åström.<br> Brian G. Marsden, English-American astronomer and academic was born on that same date in 1937.<br> American actress, Loni Anderson is 75 today.<br> African-American physicist, Shirley Ann Jackson, born on this date in 1946.<br> Also born on that same date in 1947, American astrophysicist and academic, France A. Córdova.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 5, 2020<br> Listener birthdays (Aug 5-11)<br> <br> 6 – Julie Tomasi<br> 8 – Philippa Ballantine<br> 9 – Matt Coe (WoWaddict) [1991]<br> 9 – Julia Posz – (Technorama Promo)<br> 10 – Sam Martin<br> 11 – Steve Wozniak<br> 11 – David Brewer (Tyrion The Imp)<br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar,
