Today in Strangeness: On this day in 1790, mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born. Hes remembered today for creating the curious topological surface called the Möbius strip. It was on November 17, 1968 that NBC famously outraged football fans by cutting away from the final minutes of a Raiders-Jets game to air the TV special, Heidi, on schedule. Maverick catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky died (1979) and the American Theosophical Society was formed (1875).
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:03:06 +0000