Episode 614: One ring shy of a three ring circus




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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> What movie(s) is your comfort food? The ones you will watch time after time?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157285720756671">Technorama</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159470358303455">Chuck</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10157309447876319">Kreg</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for September 30, 2020<br> This is the 274th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1791, that The first performance of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.<br> That same date in 1882, Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) began operation.<br> On September 30, 1935, The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, was dedicated.<br> It was on this date in 1939, that NBC broadcast the first televised American football game.<br> 66 years ago today, The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the world’s first nuclear-powered vessel.<br> It was on this date in 1965, that The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, was introduced.<br> Also today in 1967, The BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service were replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 was also launched.<br> On September 30, 1968, The Boeing 747 was rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.<br> The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line on this date in 1975.<br> September 30, 1977, Because of NASA budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.<br> On September 30, 1980, Ethernet specifications were published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> German astronomer and mathematician, Michael Maestlin, born on this date in 1550.<br> John Rae, the Scottish physician and explorer was born 207 years ago today.<br> American activist, co-founded Mother’s Day, Ann Jarvis was born 188 years ago today.<br> American businessman, founded Wrigley Company, William Wrigley, Jr., born on this date in 1861.<br> French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, Jean Baptiste Perrin was born 150 years ago today.<br> Born September 30, 1882, German physicist and academic Hans Geiger.<br> English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Nevill Francis Mott, born on this date in 1905.<br> Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator was born on that same date in 1925.<br> Also born on that same date in 1935,  American singer and actor, Johnny Mathis.<br> German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Johann Deisenhofer, born on this date in 1943.<br> English astronomer and academic, Richard Edwin Hills is 75 today.<br> Also turning 65 today is German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems Andy Bechtolsheim.<br> Also born on that same date in 1961,  American actor, director, and producer, Eric Stoltz.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 30, 2020<br> Listener birthdays:<br> <br> 1 – 10/1 = 101 &amp; Stephen Wesche (From Saint Louis Missouri) (Pronounced Like the first part of the word “Wet” and the word “She”)<br> 2 – Adam Rumpke<br> 6 – John Duerholt (Jo Dho)<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>