‪Today in #GeekHistory 3/1/1893: Nikola Tesla gives the first public radio demo, keeping the death ray idea to himself for the time being.‬

Today in #GeekHistory 2/28/1959: The American spy satellite, Discoverer 1 (the first object to achieve a polar orbit) is launched

Today in #GeekHistory 2/28/1998: Nintendo releases Yoshi's Story for Nintendo 64 in the U.S.

Today in #GeekHistory 2/28/1954: The first color television sets go on sale to the general public using the NTSC standard

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

Today in #GeekHistory 2/24/1970: National Public Radio is founded, replacing the National Educational Radio Network.

Today in #GeekHistory 2/21/1983: The 1st video game world championship (North American Video Game Challenge) takes place at Twin Galaxies in Ottumwa, IA

Today in #GeekHistory 2/21/1986: The Legend of Zelda is released for the Family Computer Disk System, introducing Link, Zelda, Ganon & the Triforce.

Today in #GeekHistory 2/20/1962: Mercury Friendship 7 lifts off with John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American in orbit, and orbits the Earth three times.

Today in #GeekHistory 2/19/1999: Office Space is released, m’kay

Today in #GeekHistory 2/19/1990: The top rated Star Trek: TNG episode, 'Yesterday's Enterprise' airs.

Today in #GeekHistory 2/19/1974: Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari Inc) receives a patent for controlling counters dynamically by logic circuits

Today in #GeekHistory 2/17/1920: Comic book artist, Curt Swan is born in Willmar, MN. He will go on to be the long time artist for Superman (1950s - 80s)

Today in #GeekHistory 2/17/1996: @NASA launches the 1st in the Discovery series of spacecraft, the 'NEAR' spacecraft, aboard a Delta II-7925-8 rocket.

Today in #GeekHistory 2/17/1936: The Phantom, a comic strip created by Lee Falk debuts

Today in #GeekHistory 2/16/1964: Doctor Who's Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, is born in Lancashire, England.

Today in #GeekHistory 2/16/1962: La Jetee a French short film that served as the inspiration to Gilliam's 12 Monkeys is released

A Great day in #GeekHistory 2/16/1957: LeVar Burton, Star Trek: TNG's Geordie LaForge, is born

Today in #GeekHistory 2/15/2001: First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature

Today in #GeekHistory 2/15/1985: The Breakfast Club starring Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy is released