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Feedback* QOTW: What are you looking forward to in the new year?

On This Day In History for January 10, 2024This is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining in 2024.

  • It was on this date in 1776, that Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense.
  • The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrived in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh on this date in 1812
  • January 10, 1863, The Metropolitan Railway, the world’s oldest underground railway, opened between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
  • It was 154 years ago today, that John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
  • Also today in 1927, Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis was released in Germany.
  • The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducted Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals on this date in 1946
  • It was 34 years ago today, that Time Warner was formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

  • German physician and explorer, Martin Lichtenstein, born on this date in 1780.
  • Carl Ritter von Ghega, the Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway was born 222 years ago today.
  • Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, Luigi Pigorini, born on this date in 1842.
  • Issai Schur, the German mathematician and academic was born 149 years ago today.
  • German mathematician and academic, Heinrich Behmann was born 133 years ago today.
  • American physicist and engineer, Katharine Burr Blodgett, born on this date in 1898.
  • Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer was born on that same date in 1904.
  • Gordon Kidd Teal, the American engineer and inventor was born 117 years ago today.
  • Roy E. Disney, American businessman was born on that same date in 1930.
  • Also born on that same date in 1936, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate, Robert Woodrow Wilson.
  • American computer scientist and mathematician, Donald Knuth, born on this date in 1938.
  • Also born on that same date in 1953, American singer-songwriter, Pat Benatar.
  • American computer scientist and academic, Kathryn S. McKinley is 62 today.

Listener Birthdays

  • 15 – Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 10, 2024

  • If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.

News* NASA is headed for the moon next week, and it’s bringing lots of weird stuff | Popular Science * ‘Star Trek technology made real’: Scientists teleport images using light – Study Finds

Hacks & Strange Stories* Neptune and Uranus seen in true colours for first time

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Media Corner* ‘Ready Player One’ to Be Turned Into Massive Metaverse Experience

Geek Library* Tetris creator surprises Willis Gibson, teen who beat the game

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