Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Really big shoe, really big . . .


Seems like January 27th was a big day in history, so big in fact, I gotta write about it. So, let's get going.


Lessee, first we have on this day in 1948, Wire Recording Corporation of America came up with the first magnetic wire recorder called the Wireway.


1926 saw that wiley Scotsman, John Logie Baird, demonstrate the first television. First golf, now this. Shudder.


In 1964 DuPont invented Corfam. Don't remember? Neither does ANYONE else. It was fake leather. Good business move in a world awash with the real item. And the name, Corfam, c'mon.


That scallywag, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born this day in 1832. Better known as Lewis Carroll. Mathematician, and yes, writer.


And who can forget that in on January 27 1918, the Finnish civil war started?


And that really cool plane above, that's a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, first flown on this day in 1939.



1 comment:

sj said...

You were going to tell us the names of the three bakers from Cinnamon Toast Crunch?