On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League Baseball
game was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was
to become WNBC-TV.

At the time, television was still in its infancy and programming
did not yet exist, and very few people owned television sets—
there were only about 400 in the New York area.

Spam, the processed canned meat product, was introduced in
the United States on July 5, 1937 by Hormel Foods Corporation
in Austin, Minnesota.

The product was designed to be affordable, easy to prepare, and
shelf-stable, making it ideal for families during the Great
Depression when refrigeration was not common in most
homes. 

On May 5, 1921, a date of symbolic importance to its iconic
creator, the perfume Chanel No. 5 officially debuts in Coco
Chanel’s boutique on the Rue Cambon in Paris.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883 – 1971) was
the daughter of a clothing peddler and a
laundrywoman.

On April 23, 1985, The Coca-Cola Company announced that
it was changing the formula of its signature soft drink for
the first time in 99 years.

The short-lived, sweeter New Coke, as it is called, debuts to
a consumer backlash that pundits call the marketing blunder
of the century.

Coca-Cola, which had been the world’s bestselling soft drink,
had been facing increasing competition from rival cola Pepsi,
and the company wanted to re-energize the brand.

The company was flooded with up to 8,000 calls a day from
dissatisfied consumers and received some 40,000 complaint
letters.

CEO Roberto Goizueta got a letter addressed to “Chief Dodo,
The Coca-Cola Company.”

Roberto Goizueta (1931–1997)

On July 10, 1985, announced the return of the original Coke formula, renamed Coca-Cola Classic

Bert Lahr, was a actor and comedian. He was best known for his
role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his counterpart Kansas
farmworker "Zeke", in the 1939Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation
of The Wizard of Oz (below).