June 2nd

On this day - June 2 2004 - Ken Jennings starts his Jeopardy run

Ken Jennings or Kenneth Wayne Jennings III is a American game show contestant and author. In his run he won 74 Jeopardy shows for a that won him over 2,500 000 USD. Jennings is the second all time money winner in tv gameshows with over 4,000 000 USD in winnings. The person who has earned most is Brad Rutter who beat Jennings in Jeopardy Battle of the Decades. In the battle of the Decades Brad won 1000 000 and Jennings won 100 000. Both contestants was part of the IBM Challenge where IBMs supercomputer Watson played against the Brad and Jennings. Watson was the next big challenge project for IBM after Deep Blue. Watson won that challenge and Jennings came 2nd. Jennings has published the book Brainiac: "Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs" 

March 26th

On this day – March 26th 2005 – The relaunch of Doctor Who 

Doctor Who, a TV show about a time-traveling Time Lord and his companions traveling in a spaceship disguised as a blue police box. The first series was  aired in 1963 and ran until 1989 when it was closed down. No one knows why BBC decided to end the show, but disagreement inside BBC have been discussed as one of the main reasons. An attempt to renew the show as a television film failed in 1996, while the relaunch in 2005 has been a huge success. The relaunch was due to central BBC workers belief in a future of what had been a defining TV show for BBC and Great Britain. Russel T. Davis was the writer in the five first years of the new version, while C. Eccleston played The Doctor. David Tennant, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi have all played The Doctor in the modern version of the series. Doctor Who have since its relaunch been showed in over 50 countries all around the world and it is considered a British institution.

“In 900 years of time and space, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important” - Eleventh Doctor

"Don' turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink" - Tenth Doctor

The Tardis , picture by Aussiegal