Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1va">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> If you were an assassin, what would your trademark be that tells people it was you who committed the crime?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159552011653455">Chuck</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157340553836671">Technorama</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10157370712866319">Kreg</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for October 28, 2020<br> This is the 302nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1492, that Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.<br> It was 384 years ago today, that The Massachusetts Bay Colony voted to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.<br> 294 years ago today, The novel Gulliver’s Travels was published.<br> Also on October 28, 1886, President Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty.<br> On October 28, 1942, The Alaska Highway first connected Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.<br> It was on this date in 1948, that Paul Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.<br> That same date in 1956, Elvis Presley received a polio vaccination on national TV.<br> On October 28, 1971, Prospero became the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.<br> It was on this date in 2009, that NASA successfully launched the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.<br> Also today in 2014, A rocket carrying NASA’s Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station exploded seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> French mathematician and engineer, Antoine Deparcieux, born on this date in 1703.<br> Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer was born on that same date in 1718.<br> Born October 28, 1793, American businessman, founded Remington Arms, Eliphalet Remington.<br> Belgian mathematician and theorist, Pierre François Verhulst was born 216 years ago today.<br> Wilhelm Anderson, the Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer was born 140 years ago today.<br> Born October 28, 1905, Dutch mathematician Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest.<br> Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician was born on that same date in 1914.<br> Also born on that same date in 1955, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft, Bill Gates.<br> American computer scientist and mathematician, Landon Curt Noll, born on this date in 1960.<br> Also turning 53 today is American video game designer, co-founded Id Software John Romero.<br> American computer scientist, Jawed Karim is 41 today.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> 28 – Dylan Licata (San Antonio)<br> 29 – Big Jim Clark, MegaPodTastic<br> 30 – WolfGeek (Indiana)<br> 1 – Amber Elstad<br> 2 – Mark McCoy<br> 3 – Ken Pace<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 28, 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://mashable.com/article/bennu-asteroid-dust-leaking/">NASA collected asteroid dust, but it’s leaking on its return journey</a><br> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-10-23/coronavirus-internet-is-a-..."></a>
