24th February 2012

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Mic Porter

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Events1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar necessary as, under the Julian, the spring equinox was moving away from astronomical correctness and thus so was Easter!1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review whereby the decisions of Governments (and other public bodies) can be challenged in Courts.1809 – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane burns to the ground, leaving owner and playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. Rebuilt by Samuel Whitbread and reopened 10th October 1812.

Burning of Drury Lane Theatre from Westminster Bridge Date c.1809

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Events1917 – Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.1920 – The Nazi Party founded.1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history. Now thought to be a weather balloon that was attacked by unskilled gun batteries thinking it was another Japanese air attack - confusion reigns! UFOlogists have other explanations!

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Events1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3M and untold rewards after death as a bounty for the murder of Salman Rushdie (the Satanic Verses author). He goes into hiding.1989 – A United Airlines 747 Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 business-class passengers out. 346 passengers and crew survive.

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Events2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years and brother Raúl takes over as President.2011 – Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery. Now retired to the Smithsonian Museum.Last Launch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkJ8ugK3_0

Challenger : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE&feature=related

Richard Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qAi_9quzUY

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

Richard P. Feynman (1918 –1988)

Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (Appendix F.)

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Ins…1885 – Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral whose most significant commands were as an Admiral during WWII who signed for the US at the Japanese surrender. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was commissioned in 1975 and continues in service. (d. 1966) 1898 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who headed the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931-45. After the war he is involved in aeronautical design in Argentina and India under the name Prof. Dr. Pedro Matthies. (d. 1983)

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Ins…1912 – Ji?í Trnka, Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director (d. 1969) http://maslidukan.com/?tag=jiri-trnka-studio

1914 – Ralph Erskine, British architect mostly working on mass housing in Sweden. Locally responsible for the Byker Wall (1973-8) (d. 2005)1938 – Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer (Nike).1955 – Steven Paul Jobs, friend of Steve Woznaik and later Sir Jonny Ives .(d. 2011)

Apple 1 - Kit built Personal Computer – 11th April ‘76Originally sold for $666.66 later dropped to $475

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Outs…616 – King Ethelbert of Kent. (b. c560)1810 – Henry Cavendish, scientist and discoverer of “inflammable air” (hydrogen), the density of the earth, and various electrical relations including what we now call ohms law. Mostly worked on his Clapham Common estate (b. 1731)1812 – Etienne-Louis Malus, French mathematician, physicist & investigator of polarized light (b. 1775)1815 – Robert Fulton, American inventor who while working in France created the first steamboat and between 1793-7 the first functional submarine - Nautilus (b.1765)

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Outs…1825 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and literature editor whose “cleaned-up” version of Shakespeare’s plays (standarding spelling among other actions) give rise to the term bowdlerize (bowdlerise). (b. 1754)1856 – Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian geometrical mathematician (b. 1792)2005 – Dan McIvor, Canadian aviator and pioneer of water bombing forest fires. He apparently always gave “trick or treating” children toothbrushes on Halloween (b. 1911)

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Tom Lehrer (1953) “Lobachevsky”(Snip – sung at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4vWJbwmqM )“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics. Plagiarize!

PlagiarizeLet no one else's work evade your eyesRemember why the good Lord made your eyesSo don't shade your eyesBut plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarizeOnly be sure always to call it please ‘research’”