Today in Geek History

Hey guys. Real quick before I get on with the post, The Biggest Loser is casting again! I'm heading down to the Utah casting shoot on July 14th. Who wants to join me? Today is July 3rd and today in Geek History...

1928 John Logie Baird demonstrates the first color television transmission. Can you imagine what life would have been like without TV?

1962 Tom Cruise celebrates his 50th birthday today. You may know him from such movies as Top Gun and Rock of Ages! He was born in Syracuse, New York.

1973 Patrick Wilson is born today in Norfolk Virginia. You may know him from Zack Snyder's Watchmen. Norfolk is a Navy town so it's likely that his family was military. Cool huh?


1985 The film, Back to the Future is released. It's a Robert Zemeckis film starring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd. So sad what's happened to Michael J Fox. Good guy.

1999 The first ever person to achieve the max score in Pac Man ws Billy Mitchell. He hails from Florida and it only took him 6 hours to get 3,333,360 points. WOAH.

2012 Andy Griffith, star of Matlock and The Andy Griffith Show died today at the age of 86. Sad day! My favorite thing he is in is a music video from Brad Paisley called "Waiting on a Woman." Watch it here.

Geek History

Today is November 12th and today in Geek History....

1943 Wallace Shawn, who is famous for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride, and also voiced Rex in the Toy Story movies, is born.

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1955 Lightning strikes the Hill Valley courthouse's clock tower a

t 10:04 PM (Back to the Future).

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1980 Voyager 1 makes its closet approach to Saturn, taking the first images of its rings.

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Today in Geek History

Today is October 25th and today in Geek History...

1924 Billy Barth, The Lord of the Rings (1978 version), Legend, Masters of the Universe, WIll, UHF, and Radioland Murders is born.

1950 John Matuszak, known for playing Sloth in The Goonies as well as a stored NFL career, is born in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Everyone do the Truffle Shuffle in his honor.

1985 Doc and Marty travel back in time. It's not the day the movie was release but the ACTUAL day that Marty met Doc and tested their Flux Capacitor.

In related news, according to tabloid news site TMZ, the first pair of Back to the Future, Marty McFly Nike's were sold to an anonymous winner, with the proceeds going to Micheal J Fox's Parkinson Disease Foundation. See the full story here. I mean they're cool, but they don't even tie themselves yet. Check them out. (Link to where I got the pic here. Gotta be legal and all.)