Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen
(7 April 1891 – 11 March 1958)

In 1932, Ole founded the construction toy company The Lego
Group. He toiled away in Billund, Denmark, for decades before
creating Leg Godt, which means “play well.” His workshop was destroyed by fire twice. He endured bankruptcy and a world war
that caused a shortage of materials.

Finally, in the late 1940s, Ole Christiansen landed on the idea for
self-locking plastic bricks. By the time Ole Kirk died in 1958,
Legos was on the verge of becoming a household word.

On August 21, 1980, animal rights advocates Ingrid Newkirk (below) 
and Alex Pacheco founded People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals. Rising from humble beginnings, PETA will soon become
the world’s foremost and most controversial animal rights
organization.

Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk (73).

Alexander Fernando Pacheco (64),

Samuel Gooden (September 2, 1934 – August 4, 2022)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sam Gooden, one of the original members
of the Chicago soul group The Impressions and a member of the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died.

His daughter, Gina Griffin, said Gooden died Thursday, a month shy
of his 88th birthday, in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, surrounded by his family.

The Impressions formed in the 1950s after Gooden and brothers
Richard and Arthur Brooks met Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler
in Chicago.

Birds Eye is an American international brand of frozen foods
owned by Conagra Brands in the United States, by Nomad
Foods in Europe, and Simplot in Australia.

The former Birds Eye Company Ltd., originally named "Birdseye Seafood, Inc." had been established in the United States by
Clarence Birdseye in 1922 to market frozen fish, being then
acquired by the Postum Cereal Company in 1929. The company
was then owned by other firms such as Dean Foods and Pinnacle
Foods, which was eventually taken over by Conagra Brands in
2018. Since then, Conagra has been managing rights to the Birds
Eye brand in the U.S.

In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton  (below) and
Adolphus Solomons founded the American National Red Cross,
an organization established to provide humanitarian aid to victims
of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International
Red Cross.       

Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912)