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Legend: Teenage short-order cook Lionel Clark Sternberger invented cheeseburger in the mid-1920s...

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1535 - John Balson began trading meat at local market in Bridport, Dorset, UK; 1880 - moved to...

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March 10, 1863 - John A. Frye, partner John Winslow Stevens, started manufacturing shoes; 1864 -...

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1911 - Henry P. and Henry E. Schloemer (cousins) became business partners, formed West Bend...

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1870 - Tomás Colomer founded jeweler's firm in Granollers, Spain; 2011 - two stores in heart of...

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1832 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of heliography (patterns obtained by the action of light...

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October 13, 1883 - Samuel Stambaugh, William Stanton Haak and his younger brother, William Meiser...

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1912 - George G. Marvin established Marvin Timber & Cedar Company in Warroad, MN (above in...

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1908 - James and Clay Emigh, experienced in hardware industry, opened Emigh Hardware Co. at 1208...

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1935 - S. Prestley Blake (20), Curtis L. Blake (18) borrowed $450from their parents,...

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April 1761 - Jacob Knorr purchased plot of land in area originally known as Pomona Grove, PA...

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1886 - Plymouth Iron Windmill Company (Plymouth, MI) manufactured iron windmills for farmers...

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1865 - Ferdinando Bocconi opened Alle Città d'Italia, first emporium of Italian clothes made for...

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1887 - George D. Munsing, Frank H. Page, Edward O. Tuttle founded Northwestern Knitting Co. in...

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1914 - William Stewart Herron, Okotoks farmer, made first gas discovery in Alberta (noticed gas...

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1939 - Ole Bardahl, Norwegian immigrant (arrived in Seattle in 1922 with $32.00 in his...

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1877 - John Maneely, Irish immigrant, launched John Maneely Company, pipe distribution business...

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