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On This Day In History for January 3, 2024

This is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining in 2024.

• It was on this date in 1749, that The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
• It was 154 years ago today that Construction work began on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
• January 3, 1957, The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
• It was also this date in 1977 that Apple Computer was incorporated.
• The Mars Polar Lander was launched by NASA on this date in 1999
• 15 years ago today, The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
• January 3, 2019, Chang’e 4 made the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer, Antoine Thomson d’Abbadie, born on this date in 1810.
• Charles Piazzi Smyth, Italian-Scottish astronomer and academic was born on that same date in 1819.
• English writer, poet, and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien, born on this date in 1892.
• American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation, Gordon Moore was born 95 years ago today.
• American director, producer, and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica, Glen A. Larson, born on this date in 1937.
• Also born on that same date in 1956, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Mel Gibson.
• American actress and mathematician, Danica McKellar is 49 today.
• Swedish environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, born on this date in 2003.

Listener Birthdays

• 3 – Thomas Gideon (The Command Line Podcast)
• 6 – Steve Therrien (Canada)
• 8 – Elvis!
• 9 – Lingo from the Brit & Yankee pubcast

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 3, 2024

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News

• Two Space Stories In 2024 Will Determine The Future Of Humanity
• NASA spacecraft on new mission to converge with asteroid Apophis as it nears Earth

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Scientists had a 20-minute “conversation” with a humpback whale • Earth.com

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Geek Library

• ‘I wanted justice.’ AirTags used to track stolen luggage from Charlotte airport to suspect’s home

Question of the week

• What are you looking forward to in the new year?

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