General Mills’ Cheerioats was invented in 1941. It didn’t take long
for Quaker Oats to gripe about the name and threaten legal action,
so Cheerioats became Cheerios in 1945.
Inventor Lester Ferdinand Borchardt
(1907 – 2007)
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s estate paid tribute to his
artistry and charity Tuesday as fans make final preparations for
gatherings to celebrate his memory on the 10th anniversary of the
King of Pop’s death.
TIM MAGUIRE
North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War on this
day in 1950.
On this day in 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report
dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell,
New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier.
Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began to flourish
in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the dawn of the
atomic age caused many Americans to turn their attention to the skies.
The town of Roswell, located near the Pecos River in southeastern New
Mexico, became a magnet for UFO believers due to the strange events of
early July 1947, when ranch foreman W.W. Brazel found a strange, shiny
material scattered over some of his land. He turned the material over to
the sheriff, who passed it on to authorities at the nearby Air Force base.
On July 8, Air Force officials announced they had recovered the wreckage
of a “flying disk.” A local newspaper put the story on its front page,
launching Roswell into the spotlight of the public’s UFO fascination.
