Episode 716: The Heavy Lifting is Over

Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. Feedback QOTW: What’s one movie that everyone should see at least once in their lifetime? On This Day In History for July 5, 2023 This is the 186th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining in 2023. It was on this date in 1687, that Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Also on July 5, 1865, The United States Secret Service began operation. It was 86 years ago today, that Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation Also on July 5, 1946, Micheline Bernardini modeled the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris That same date in 1954, Elvis Presley recorded his first single, “That’s All Right”, at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee It was on this date in 1954, that The BBC broadcast its first daily television news bulletin. It was 29 years ago today that Jeff Bezos founded Amazon. It was also this date in 1996 that Dolly the sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult cell That same date in 2012, The Shard in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 meters (1,020 ft) It was also this date in 2016 that The Juno space probe arrived at Jupiter and begins a 20 -month survey of the planet Happy birthday goes out on this date to: American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, P. T. Barnum, born on this date in 1810. Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer, William John Macquorn Rankine was born 203 years ago today. Born July 5, 1867, American astronomer A. E. Douglass.