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> QOTW: What’s a movie trope you are sick and tired of?<br> <br> On This Day In History for June 15, 2022<br> This is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining in 2022.<br> <br> It was on this date in 763 BC, that Assyrians recorded a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.<br> King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta on this date in 1215<br> June 15, 1502, Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage<br> 355 years ago today, The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys<br> It was 270 years ago today, that Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown)<br> June 15, 1844, Charles Goodyear received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber<br> That same date in 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Brown completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland<br> June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman earned her pilot’s license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent<br> Also on June 15, 1936, First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber<br> It was on this date in 2012, that Nik Wallenda became the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Italian model, subject of the Mona Lisa, Lisa del Giocondo, born on this date in 1479.<br> Born June 15, 1542, English captain and explorer Richard Grenville.<br> Juan José Elhuyar, the Spanish chemist and mineralogist was born 268 years ago today.<br> Thomas Mitchell, Scottish-Australian colonel and explorer was born on that same date in 1792.<br> German oceanographer and academic, Georg Wüst, born on this date in 1890.<br> Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and author was born on that same date in 1906.<br> John Fenn, the American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 105 years ago today.<br> American lighting and production designer Marc Brickman is 69 today.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> 15 – Miss Eliza Sea from Wingin’ It 3D<br> 16 – Joe Edmisson<br> 16 – Jason from The Angry Geek<br> 17 – Digital Dan from the Hook Show<br> 18 – Luke (platypuss72) from UK<br> 18 – Xianfox from Appleton<br> 19 – Steven (sphen603) from Wichita, Kansas<br> 21 – Ascii Adam from the Hook Show<br> 22 – Lance Heath<br> 22 – Jack Stevens<br> 22 – Chris Martinez (Scotland)<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 15, 2022<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.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61744257">James Webb Space Telescope hit by a tiny meteorite</a><br> <a href="https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-completes-main-body-of-europa-clipper-spacecraft-will-search-for-life-on-jupiters-icy-moon-europa/">NASA Completes Main Body of Europa Clipper Spacecraft – Will Search for Life on Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa</a><br> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/3/23153504/right-to-repair-new-york-state-law-ifixit-repairability-diy">New York state passes first-ever ‘right to repair’ law for electronics</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>
