Episode 618: Now that that’s settled




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Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1vd">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> Remember November is International Technorama Voicemail Month! <br> <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4C8l_EV1bx5fk9PYzZFQXgzRFMtNl9takNKOS1iWVFxTndjSHBROEdmdjdLX0RwRjBiVGs">Voicemail from John Miller Jr</a><br> What lives in your brain rent free?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157351544281671">Technorama</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159569396808455">Chuck</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157351544281671">Kreg</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for November 4, 2020<br> This is the 309th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1783, that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 was performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.<br> Also today in 1847, Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.<br> It was on this date in 1890, that the City and South London Railway: London’s first deep-level tube railway opened between King William Street and Stockwell.<br> 98 years ago today, In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.<br> It was also this date in 1952 that The United States government established the National Security Agency, or NSA.<br> November 4, 1962, The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.<br> Also today in 1973, The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> French mathematician and engineer, Pierre-Simon Girard, born on this date in 1765.<br> Irish engineer, who invented the tractor, Harry Ferguson was born 136 years ago today.<br> Born November 4, 1904, Polish engineer, technician, and academic Tadeusz Żyliński.<br> Joseph Rotblat, the Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 112 years ago today.<br> Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created Barbie was born on that same date in 1916.<br> Walter Cronkite, the American journalist, voice actor, and producer was born 104 years ago today.<br> Art Carney, American actor, was born on that same date in 1918.<br> American scientist and engineer, Mary Sherman Morgan was born 99 years ago today.<br> Charles K. Kao, the Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate was born 87 years ago today.<br> Also born on that same date in 1937,  American actress and singer, Loretta Swit.<br> American actor, Ralph Macchio is 59 today.<br> Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist was born on that same date in 1983.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 4, 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://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-foils-worst-thieves-ever-video/">Tesla Model 3 owner cleverly outsmarts worst thieves ever with mobile app features</a><br> <br> Shout out to the chat room<br> Watch us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET on Facebook. Go to Join our page and get notified automatically. Join us on the live chat!<br> Remember When<br> <br> <a href="https://socialgazette.com/stories/31-vintage-ads-that-would-probably-be-banned-today/">31 vintage ads that would pr...</a>