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On This Day In History for August 21, 2024

This is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining in 2024.

• It was on this date in 1770, that James Cook formally claimed eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.


• Also on August 21, 1883, An F5 tornado struck Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.


• The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs on this date in 1888.


• It was 79 years ago today thatb Physicist Harry Daghlian was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


• August 21, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully conducted a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile..


• That same date in 1959, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii’s admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day.


• 31 years ago today, NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.


• Also today in 2017, a solar eclipse traversed the continental United States.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• French mathematician and engineer, Hubert Gautier, born on this date in 1660.


• Giacomo F. Maraldi, the French-Italian astronomer and mathematician was born 359 years ago today.


• Born August 21, 1754, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting William Murdoch.


• Augustin-Louis Cauchy, the French mathematician and academic was born 235 years ago today.


• Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter and astronomer was born on that same date in 1823.


• American animator, director, and producer, Friz Freleng, born on this date in 1906.


• Born August 21, 1909, Russian mathematician and physicist Nikolay Bogolyubov.


• Also turning 68 today is English-Canadian actress Kim Cattrall.


• American businessman, co-founder of America Online (AOL), Steve Case, born on this date in 1958.


• Born August 21, 1961, American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator and creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Stephen Hillenburg.


• Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded Google, Sergey Brin, born on this date in 1973.

Listener Birthdays

• 21 – Dean Jensen (Beaker1)


• 22 – Bilbo Bagins


• 22 – Frodo Bagins

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 21, 2024

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News

• NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour – NASA Science

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Huge LEGO Star Trek ‘Deep Space Nine’ Model Has Over 75,000 Pieces – Bell of Lost Souls


• Alan Parsons Speaks Up on Difficulties of Recording Pink Floyd Classic: ‘We Had to Measure the Tape With a Ruler’ | Ultimate Guitar


• Researchers Are Using Mayonnaise to Improve Nuclear Fusion Experiments

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• The weird ways the elements got their names


• 20 Famous Cigarette Brands That FADED Into History!


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Question of the week

• If you could have any fictional creature as a pet, which one would you choose?

Patreon Topic this week

• First failure with AliExpress


• Finding neutral with a dead battery


• Ubuntu on the Mac Mini

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