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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49657)1/29/2006 7:54:46 AM
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This day in history..

Internal-combustion-powered car patented by Benz


1886: On this day in 1886, German mechanical engineer Karl Benz—whose original three-wheeled Motorwagen ran for the first time in 1885—patented the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine.




1924: The first machine for rolling ice cream cones was patented by Carl Rutherford Taylor of Cleveland, Ohio.

1919: The Prohibition (Eighteenth) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified and went into effect the following year.

1900: The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs was organized in Philadelphia.

1880: American actor and comedian W.C. Fields was born in Philadelphia.

1819: British East India Company administrator Sir Stamford Raffles established the port of Singapore.
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