In 1959 Ford first offered 4X4 as a factory option on their
In 1949 the first Harvestore silo was built
on 10/12/97 Singer John Denver was killed in a plane crash
In 1973 "Rocky Mountain High" hit no. 9 on the US Top 100.
In 1969 the song "In the year 2525" mentions cloning and test tube babies. This is the first
time in the US the thought was mentioned. It would be another 27 years before this prediction
became a reality on 07/05/96, when "Dolly" was born.
In 1938 The "beetle" was created as the People's Car (volks-wagon) at
the request of Adolf Hitler
On 02/20/54 Patricia Campbell Hearst is born in San Francisco, California
Her claim to fame would come when she was kidnapped in 1974 by the SLA
Cattle, when mature have only eight teeth.
Lincoln Electric designed and built the first Electric Arc Welder in 1909.
In 1940 New Holland introduced the first auto tie haybaler
In 1899 New Idea introduced the first manure spreader.
In 1911 Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant founded Chevrolet,
Two years later the now famous "bow tie" was introduced
In 1897 Ransom E. Olds founded the American Car company
known as Oldsmobile
On 03/29/1915 Kenneth A. Arnold was born in Sebeka, Minnesota.
His claim to fame was his encounter with UFOs in a chain near Mount Rainier, Washington
on 06/24/47. He is also credited with coining the term "Flying Saucer"
1952 the US Air force started Project Blue Book.
In 1983 Ford Motor Company used Metric to measure the size of it's
engines for the fist time.
In 1960 Chevrolet inroduced he C/K series of trucks.
In 1965 Ford Motor company introduced the 300-6 Inline motor.
In 1975 Ford introduced the F150
in 1983 the Ford F-100 was discontinued.
George Orwell was actualy a pen name for Eric Blair
LSD is an acronym for Lysergic acid diethylamide, and was created
by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann.
The oldest surviving veteran of the First World War is Ponticelli, Lazare
(born 7 December 1897) He is one of only fifteen veterans still alive. The oldest
surviving American veteran is Frank Woodruff Buckles (born February 1, 1901)
In 1994 the US Govt declassified "Project Mogul." It is this project which is
believed to have caused the debris in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947
during the now infamous "Roswell Crash"
In 1954 John Deere introduced Power Steering on there tractors
On 10/11/1950 The FCC issued the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS
In 1879 The town of Kindred was established in what is today Shell
River Township in Wadena County, Minnesota.
on 10/26/1950 Sister Mary Teresa begins her charity work in Calcutta and
becomes known as Mother Teresa.
On April 30, 1975, the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon fell to the
communist forces of North Vietnam, effectively ending the Vietnam War.
To this day Boulder City is the only location in Nevada not to allow gambling
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On March 31, 2005, Terri Schiavo died after her feeding tube was removed. This ended seven years of legal battles.
In order to prove a point International Harvester Corporation, working in partnership with the
University of Wisconson, had "windows" surgicaly put into the stomachs of live cattle in order to observe the internal workings of the stomach.
The first dinosaur fossil discovered in modern time belonged to an iguanodon
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M& M candy is named for it's creators.
In 1900 the Hersey bar was introduced
In 1921 Hershey Kisses first recieved the trademark "ribbon"
In 1897 Alexander Hamilton, of Yates Center, Kansas said under oath that
he witnessed a cow being abducted by a UFO.
In 1915 J.L. Kraft introduced proccessed Cheese
In 1923Velveeta was introduced
According to his own account, former president Theadoore Roosevelt once
had an encounter with "Big Foot"
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In 1869 French chemist Hippolyte M�ge-Mouri�s invented a substance he
called oleomargarine, the name of which became shortened to the trade
name "Margarine".
In 1968 GMC introduced the "Longhorn" model of 3/4 ton truck.
In 1969 GMC introduced the 350C.I. engine.
In 1973 GMC removed the fuel tanks from behind the seats in their pickups.
In 1981 Chevy introduced auto-locking hubs on their 4X4 pickups.
In 1973, IH officially dropped the Farmall name from its new tractor offerings
after this date.
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on 04/05/08 American actor Charlton Heston died
In 1947 Reynold Metals introduced the product now known as Reynolds Wrap
In 1914 Dodge introduced their Model 30. It was the first
car to be made of steel instead of wood
In 1981 Dodge intoduced the now infamous "K-Car"
Peanuts are not a nut, they are a legume
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
The Japanese Zero fighter of WWII fame was made by Mitsubishi...
A koala is not a bear - its a marsupial and are permanatly stoned, eucalyptus
leaves are like drugs to them...
Dolphins and humans are the only 2 species that have sex for pleasure
Ford's brother-in-law E.G. Kingsford Establiched the kingsford charcoal
company using the left over wood scraps from model T Fords.
Charelton Heston marched with Martin Luther King Jr.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
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On 03-26-97 thirty eight members of a group identified as "Heavan's Gate Cult"
were found dead.
On 11-26-1826. Ellen G. White was born in Gorham, Maine
She would later in life become one of the founders of the Seventh Day
Adventist church. Her legacy is to the day controversial. Among the many
accusations against her is plagurism in her writings.
In 1918 John Deere introduced the "Dain" tractor. This tractor All Wheel
Drive, A feature would would not become popular until 60 years later
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