Wednesday, July 08, 2015

History for July 8

History for July 8 - On-This-Day.com
Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1838, John D. Rockefeller 1839, Kim Darby 1948 


Wolfgang Puck 1949, Kevin Bacon 1958, Toby Keith 1961 


1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun. 


1879 - The first ship to use electric lights departed from San Francisco, CA


1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas. 


1889 - The Wall Street Journal was first published. 


1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds. 


1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. 


1950 - General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. 


1963 - All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen. 


1969 - The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister." 

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