William “Bill” Post, the Michigan man widely credited
with inventing Pop-Tarts for the Kellogg’s breakfast
food company, died on Saturday.
Post’s invention debuted in 1964 with four flavors,
strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon, and
apple currant. There are now more than 20 flavors.
The snack has $1 billion in U.S. annual sales.
Bernard John Dowling Irwin
(June 24, 1830 – December 15, 1917)
U.S. Army assistant surgeon Bernard John Dowling "J.D." Irwin
rescued a kidnapped boy and 60 soldiers encircled by legendary
Apache warrior Cochise on this day in history, Feb. 13, 1861.
Irwin’s heroic volunteer effort under dire circumstances in the
Arizona Territory has gone down in American military lore as
the first Congressional Medal of Honor action.
It took place before the award even existed.
The Cochise Stronghold in Arizona.
Myrtle Fillmore began Wee Wisdom® magazine, which taught
and entertained children for 98 years with stories, poems,
games, and beautiful artwork.
Although the magazine ceased publication in 1991, adults
throughout the country remember it with great fondness.
Mary Caroline "Myrtle" Page Fillmore
(August 6, 1845 – October 6, 1931)
Myrtle was co-founder of Unity, a church
within the New Thought Christian
movement.
Singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.Waylon Jennings is
considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in
country music.
Jennings started playing guitar at age eight and performed
at fourteen on KVOW radio, after which he formed his first
band, the Texas Longhorns. Jennings left high school at age
sixteen, determined to become a musician, and worked as a
performer and DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, KLLL, in Coolidge,
Arizona, and Phoenix. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’
first recording session, a cover of Jole Blon, and hired him to
play bass. Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in
1959 that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. "the Big Bopper"
Richardson and Ritchie Valens.
Jennings died in his sleep from complications of diabetes at
his home in Chandler, Arizona, aged 64.
Waylon Jennings ,left, on bass guitar and Buddy Holly.
