Episode 763: Space Trash and Robot Cats
Update: 2025-01-23
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On This Day In History for January 22, 2025
This is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining in 2025.
- It was on this date in 1890, that The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- Also today in 1927, Teddy Wakelam gave the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
- It was on this date in 1946, the Central Intelligence Group was created. It was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Also on January 22, 1947, KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, began operation in Hollywood.
- January 22, 1968, Apollo 5 lifted off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
- That same date in 1973, The crew of Apollo 17 addressed a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo Moon landing mission.
- The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, was introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial on this date in 1984.
- It was 33 years ago today, The space shuttle Discovery launched on STS-42 carrying Dr. Roberta Bondar, who became the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
- 27 years ago today, space shuttle Endeavour launched on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- French mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, Pierre Gassendi, born on this date in 1592.
- Born January 22, 1788, English poet and playwright Lord Byron.
- Estonian-Russian chemist, botanist, and academic, Karl Ernst Claus was born 229 years ago today.
- Wilbur Scoville, the American chemist and pharmacist was born 160 years ago today.
- D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter was born on that same date in 1875.
- Hungarian mathematician and academic, Frigyes Riesz, born on this date in 1880.
- Willy Hartner, the German physicist, historian, and academic was born 120 years ago today.
- Born January 22, 1907, American pilot and engineer Douglas Corrigan.
- Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Lev Landau, born on this date in 1908.
- Born January 22, 1934, American actor and director Bill Bixby.
- American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, Alan J. Heeger is 89 today.
- English actor John Hurt was born 85 years ago today.
- American singer-songwriter and producer, Steve Perry, born on this date in 1949.
- Also turning 70 today is American actor John Wesley Shipp
Listener Birthdays
- 22 – TAW012294
- 23 – Kathie Luke, IL
- 23 – Chris Moody from PodioMedia Chat
- 23 – Keith Lane from TGGeeks
- 24 – Cynthia Fry
- 25 – Kreg Steppe
- 26 – Will The Computer Guy
- 27 – Mark in Memphis
- 27 – Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 22, 2025
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News
- We finally know what the Sun sounds like – and it’s surprisingly retro
- Schrödinger’s Cat breakthrough could usher in the ‘Holy Grail’ of quantum computing, making them error-proof | Live Science
- Physicist May Have Solved The Grandfather of All Time-Travel Paradoxes : ScienceAlert
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