On this day in history.

[Richard Brown]

26th December 2012. Gerry Anderson, best known as the creator of Thunderbirds, died at the age of 83. He had been suffering from dementia.

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[AdmiralAdama]

26th December 2012. Gerry Anderson, best known as the creator of Thunderbirds, died at the age of 83. He had been suffering from dementia.

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Fireball XL5 was among my favourite Gerry / Sylvia Anderson creations.

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[AdmiralAdama]

Today in 1933 - FM radio is patented.

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[zstairlessone]

Fireball XL5 was among my favourite Gerry / Sylvia Anderson creations.

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See my head is always in the clouds - my first thought wasn't even close ...

http://afthunderbirds.com/site/category/videos/

 

[AdmiralAdama]

See my head is always in the clouds - my first thought wasn't even close ...

http://afthunderbirds.com/site/category/videos/

Yes but at least you ARE airborne.

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[scifan57]

December 28, 1895; the first commercial screening of a motion picture took place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. It was produced and exhibited by Louis and Auguste Lumiere.

 

[scifan57]

December 29, 1845; Texas enters the Union, becoming the 28th state.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Today in 1955 - Barbra Streisand recorded her first song "You'll Never Know". She was 13.

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[Roy Rob]

On this day in 1967 Star Trek's "Trouble with Tribbles" first aired.

 

[J. A.]

1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.

 

[Richard Brown]

On this day in 1967 Star Trek's "Trouble with Tribbles" first aired.

That was a funny episode

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[Roy Rob]

That was a funny episode

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It was, but if they had aired it a couple of months earlier the Tribble might have become the 'must have' Christmas toy.

 

[scifan57]

December 29, 1940; London experiences it's most devastating air raid of the war when it was firebombed. It's been called the second great fire of London.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stpaulsblitz.jpg#mw-mf-search

 

[J. A.]

December 31, 1857 – Queen Victoria selects Ottawa, then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada

 

[scifan57]

December 31, 1879; Thomas Edison publicly demonstrates the incandescent light by lighting up a street in Menlo Park, New Jersey.