ORLY-EP0106 - Doing The Splits
Welcome to ORLYRADIO #106 for Friday April 22nd, 2016 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Michael Robinson, Fred Sims, Stephen Griffith, and Daniel Atherton.
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R.I.P: Prince and Doris Roberts (Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond) {+ Michelle McNamara & Joanie “Chyna” Laurer}
-BREAK- GSoW - PSA
This Week in History:
Sources: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history
April 19th - 1775 Marks the beginning of the American Revolution as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts
April 19th Connecticut finally ratifies the Bill of Rights in 1939
April 20th - 4/20 is ruined for everyone without sense of humor enough to appreciate that Adolph Hitler was born in 1889
April 20th - 1940 the first electron microscope is demonstrated
April 20th - 1999 Two students enter Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado and open fire with multiple firearms killing 13 students & teachers, wounding 25 & eventually shooting themselves.
April 21st - Maryland Toleration Act, granting freedom of worship passed in 1649. As the first law on religious tolerance in the British North America, it influenced related laws in other colonies and portions of it were echoed in the writing of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom in American law.
April 21st - Mark Twain dies in 1910 at the age of 75. “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt”
April 21st - Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh arrested in 1995
April 22nd - 1904 saw the birth of the birth of the Atomic bomb as J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist and director of the Manhattan project is born
April 22nd - Despite the widely held, yet historically ignorant, belief that “our money has always said that…” the motto ‘In God We Trust’ is ordered to be added to all US coins by Congress in 1955