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Today in #GeekHistory 4/16/1972: Commanded by John Young, Apollo 16 launches for the moon

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/16/1981: After being canceled by NBC, the final episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (starring Gil Gerard) airs

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/15/1452: Inventor, Artist, Sculptor, etc Leonardo da Vinci is born in Florence, Italy

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/13/1951: Doctor Who's Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, is born in London.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/13/1899: Alfred Mosher Butts is born, he grows up to become an architect and creator of Scrabble board game

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I'm watching Presence (2025) trakt.tv/movies/prese... #trakt

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/12/1983: Atari announces it will start selling video game systems (for about $104USD) & games ($18-29USD) in Japan

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/12/1981: Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-1, the first manned orbital flight of the Space Shuttle.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/12/1961: Vostok 1 is launched by the USSR, carrying Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gargarin, the 1st man in space. He orbits Earth once

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/12/1985: Ladyhawke directed by Richard Donner, starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer is released

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I'm watching Real Genius (1985) trakt.tv/movies/real-... #trakt

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/11/1970: Apollo 13 launches, on it's way to the moon.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/11/1976: The Apple-1, an early personal computer designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak is released at a price of US$666.66

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/9/2011: Gerald A. Lawson, who created the first home video game system with interchangeable game cartridges passes away

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/9/1965: The Houston Astrodome opens as the first professional sports facility with artificial turf (thus the name astroturf)

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/7/1927: First distant public TV broadcast is made. Going from Washington, D.C. to New York City, it displays an image of Herbert Hoover

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/7/1964: IBM announces the System/360 (S/360), a mainframe computer designed to cover a wide range of applications.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/7/1969: Request For Comments (RFC) 1 is published, symbolizing the Internet's birth.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/6/1967: The Star Trek episode 'The City on the Edge of Forever' airs, and is often called the best episode.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/6/1968: Having been written concurrently with the film, the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey is released.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/6/1968: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood & William Sylvester is released

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/6/1937: Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in Star Wars films, was born in NY, NY

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Today in Future #GeekHistory: In 2063, humans & Vulcans will make first contact in Bozeman, Montana. LLAP, future us. Happy #FirstContactDay!

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/2010: Matt Smith takes over as the Eleventh Doctor. #DOCTORWHO

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1981: The first laptop computer (The Osborne 1) is announced by Adam Osborne and sells for $1,795.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1973: Martin Cooper places the first cellular call. This call is made to his rival at AT&T's Bell Labs.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1978: Star Wars is nominated for 10 Oscars and won 6 at the Academy Awards

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is released in the UK.

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Today in #GeekHistory 4/2/1914: Sir Alec Guinness was born in England. He would play Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/30/1811: German chemist Robert Bunsen, inventor of the Bunsen gas burner is born in Germany

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/30/1858: Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/31/1966: Soviet Luna 10 is launched. It will be the first artificial satellite to orbit the moon.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/31/1983: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is released.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/29/1955: Marina Sirtis, Star Trek: TNG's Counselor Troi, is born

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/29/1943: Original Python Eric Idle is born in South Shields, England.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/29/2003: An anonymous hacker uncovers a way to run Linux on Xbox, by exploiting a buffer overflow flaw in 007: Agent Under Fire

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A Sad day in #GeekHistory 3/28/1987: Doctor Who's Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton dies.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/28/1969: The final episode of Star Trek is pre-empted, due to the death of Dwight Eisenhower.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/26/1989: Science fiction classic Quantum Leap premiers on NBC. Oh boy.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/26/2005 #DOCTORWHO relaunches with Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/26/1931: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of Star Trek, & William Bell on Fringe is born

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/25: Tolkien Reading Day: First celebrated in 2003 to informally celebrate the readings from the trilogy

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Today in Middle-earth history: Interception by Gollum! Gollum falls into the fires of Mount Doom! HOBBITS WINSES!!! HOBBITS WINSES!!!

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Today in Middle-earth Yr: 3019 Gollum seizes the Ring and falls in the Cracks of Doom.

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Today in Middle-earth Yr: 3019 Downfall of Barad-dûr and the passing of Sauron.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/23/1910: Legendary Japanese Filmmaker (Seven Samurai) Akira Kurosawa is born in Tokyo, Japan

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/21/2001: Nintendo releases the GameBoy Advance to Japanese markets.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/21/1969: Kagemasa Kozuki starts a jukebox repair business in Tokyo. Four years later it will become Konami Industry Co.

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Today in #GeekHistory 3/21/2006: The first Twitter message is published at 9:50pm (PST) when Jack Dorsey tweets, 'just setting up my twttr'

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