Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment
of $7,600. Marilyn Monroe was the cover girl. The first issue (above) 
was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. The
initial magazine was produced in his Hyde park kitchen.

                          
                         Hugh Hefner

Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale

The well known television game show host of Tic Tac Dough (NBC/CBS) 
was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and started his career as a disc jockey
at age 17 at WPLI in Jackson, earning $25 a week.

Wink Martindale in his debut role on TV was for a
children’s sci-fi program called “Mars Patrol”.

1959

(L-R) James Lovell and Frank Borman

Gemini 7 was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA‘s Gemini program. It was
the fourth manned Gemini flight, the twelfth manned American flight and the
twentieth manned spaceflight including Soviet flights and X-15 flights above
the Kármán line. The crew of Frank F. Borman, II and James A. Lovell, Jr
spent nearly 14 days in space, making a total of 206 orbits. Gemini 7 was
the longest manned space flight in U.S. history until the Skylab missions of
the 1970s, and held the record for the longest space flight until Soyuz 9 in
June 1970.

Alka-Seltzer is an effervescent antacid and pain reliever first
marketed by the Dr. Miles Medicine Company. It was developed
by Maurice Treneer, head chemist at Miles, in Elkhart, Indiana.

Alka-Seltzer is currently owned by Bayer Schering Pharma AG,
Germany.

"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz"

The Ford Model A was the second huge success for the Ford Motor Company,
after its predecessor, the Model T. First produced on October 20, 1927, but
not sold until December 2, it replaced the venerable Model T, which had been
produced for 18 years.

The Ford model A assembly line at the Rouge Complex

FIRST MODEL A DELIVERED IN HOUSTON TEXAS – 1928

Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford