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Dallas Stoudenmire (1845-1882)
Lawman who achieved fame in the " four dead in five seconds " shootout.
One of those killed was an innocent bystander buying peanuts on the sidewalk.
The graham cracker was inspired by the preaching of Sylvester Graham who was part of the 19th century temperance movement. He figured if people were home baking and eating crackers they wouldn't be in saloons boozing it up.
Tom Thumb 1830
America's first steam locomotive
Legend has it that it raced a horse-drawn car and was winning before a belt came of a pulley causing it to lose steam.
Coringa, India was a bustling port city that was hit by a devastating cyclone in 1789 that killed 20,000 people. They rebuilt the city and then it was hit by a more destructive cyclone in 1839 that destroyed the port and left 300,000 dead. Today Coringa is just a simple village.
At 6:30 pm on July 19, 1912, Holbrook, Arizona was bombarded by thousands of pieces of a meteor.
The first automatic sliding doors for use by people were invented in 1954 by Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton, the first one installed was in 1960. It made use of a mat actuator. The idea came to them in the mid-1950s when they saw that existing sliding doors had difficulty operating in the high winds of Corpus Christi,Texas.
Upward sliding garage doors date from the 1920s. The first electric door openers (not automatic) were sold in 1926.
Mary Florence Potts (1850-1922)
She invented irons with wooden handles.
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