I love history and learning about our great leaders, innovators and producers of the past. Here’s a few from this month:
January 4
1972 Willy Wonka’s trademark was registered.
January 5
1965 HOME OF THE WHOPPER was trademark registered.
January 6
1925 Agronomist George Washington Carver was granted patent #1,522,176 for cosmetics.
January 7
1913 Patent #1,049,667 was granted to William Burton for the manufacture of gasoline.
January 9
1906 Campbell’s soup was trademark registered.
January 10
1893 Thomas Laine patented the electric gas lighter.
January 16
1984 Jim Henson’s copyright claim on “Kermit, the Muppet” was renewed.
January 17
1882 Leroy Firman received a patent for the telephone switchboard.
January 21
1954 The first atomic submarine was launched. The USS Nautilus was christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.
January 24
1935 The first canned beer, “Krueger Cream Ale,” was sold by the Kruger Brewing Company of Richmond, VA.
January 27
1880 Patent #223,898 was granted to Thomas A. Edison, for “an electric lamp for giving light by incandescence”.
January 31
1983 Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was copyrighted.

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