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Roland B Molineux (1866-1917) & The Knickerbocker Murder Case
He was the son of a Civil War general and the only person accused of murder to have a Broadway play.
Spindletop was the first U.S. oil well and was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on January 10, 1901. The world's first commercial oil well was established at Oil Springs, Ontario, in 1858.
On January 9, 1929, The Seeing Eye was established in Nashville, Tennessee, for training dogs to assist the blind.
The first hairdryer was invented in 1890 by French stylist Alexander Godefroy for use in his salon. A person had to sit under a bonnet that was attached to the chimney pipe of a gas stove.
The handheld hairdryers came out around 1915.
The first recorded signs of a lottery are Keno slips from the Chinese Han Dynasty between 205 and 187 BC. These lotteries are believed to have helped finance major government projects like the Great Wall of China.
The Irish brought the tradition of carving pumpkins into Jack O'Lantern to America. They didn't have pumpkins in Ireland, they used turnips and potatoes.
Twisted History Australia
A lot of stories on this site, it will take forever to read them all. Quite a few convicts and escaped lunatics. Just click on "older posts" to bring up more.
This one I thought was interesting. It sounds like a Twilight Zone episode. I bet the guy had an eerie chill run up his spine when he read the tombstone.
Victor Null (1939-1972)
He invented a new type of fuel-efficient rotary engine that weighed only 35 pounds that he had been working on since he was 15 years old. His partner took out a $2 million life insurance policy on him and bumped him off. They don't say what became of the engine.
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