Today in #GeekHistory 3/7/1986: Highlander is released. There can be [should have been] only one.
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Today in #GeekHistory 3/7/1986: Highlander is released. There can be [should have been] only one.
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Today in #GeekHistory 3/6/2008: U. S. Postal Service released a 41 cent stamp honoring Edwin Hubble on a sheet titled ‘American Scientists’
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Today in #GeekHistory 3/3/1951: Watch Mr. Wizard premiers on NBC sparking interest in science in kids everywhere.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/3/1920: James Doohan best known as Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott in the TV and film series Star Trek is born
Today in #GeekHistory 3/3/1959: Pioneer 4 is launched & achieves a lunar flyby trajectory, falling into a solar orbit, becoming the first U.S. sun orbiter
Today in #GeekHistory 3/3/1969: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/3/1915: NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
A Sad Day in #GeekHistory 3/2/1982: Author Philip K. Dick, who wrote the stories that inspired Blade Runner & Minority Report, died in Santa Ana, CA.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/2/1972: Pioneer 10 is launched on an Atlas/Centaur/TE364-4 towards Jupiter by the U.S.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/2/1904: Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel who wrote Green Eggs and Ham, and more is born on this date in Springfield, MA
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/28/1998: Nintendo releases Yoshi's Story for Nintendo 64 in the U.S.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/28/1928: C.V. Raman discovered Raman effect, the inelastic scattering of a photon.
Today in #GeekHistory 2/26/1908: Tex Avery, cartoonist for Droopy the Dog, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Screwy Squirrel, Porky Pig & Chilly Willy is born
Today in #GeekHistory 2/25/1971: Sean Astin, who played Mikey Walsh in The Goonies and Samwise Gamgee in LOTR, is born in Santa Monica, CA
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/24/1970: National Public Radio is founded, replacing the National Educational Radio Network.
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