July 7, 1928 – Today was the day the first loaf of sliced bread was sold commercially. The bread came from the Chillicothe Baking Company, in Chillicothe, Missouri, and the innovation was thanks to a determined engineer named Otto Rohwedder.
The machine that Rohwedder created not only sliced the bread, but it also wrapped it.
Rohwedder had conceived of the [...]
June 28, 1983 – At 1:30 am on this day in Greenwich, Connecticut, a 100-foot section of the Mianus River Bridge collapsed and 4 vehicles plunged into the shallow water below. Three people were killed and three others were critically injured. Had the bridge failed later in the day when traffic on [...]
June 26, 1995 – This was the day that the EPA declared a backyard shed in Golf Manor, Michigan as a Superfund site. A hazmat crew rolled into the suburban address and carefully dismantled a workspace that had been used by a 17-year-old Eagle Scout to create a primitive nuclear reactor. The boy’s name was David Hahn, but he is [...]
