The Smithsonian Institution is a group of museums, education
and research centers, the largest such complex in the world,
created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion
of knowledge”.  Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a
trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the
three branches of the federal government. The institution is
named after its founding donor, British scientist James
Smithson. It was originally organized as the United States
National Museum, but that name ceased to exist in 1967.
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James Smithson  (c. 1765 – 27 June 1829)

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Pizza Hut is a pizza franchise that was founded on May 31, 1958,
in Wichita, Kansas. The first franchise unit opened in Topeka,
Kansas in 1959^. PepsiCo acquired Pizza Hut in November 1977
and spun it off, along with Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken,
into a new company named Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. on
May 30, 1997. The company assumed the name of Yum! Brands
on May 22, 2002. 

On July 16, 1995, Amazon officially opened for business as
an online bookseller. Within a month, the fledgling retailer
had shipped books to all 50 U.S. states and to 45 countries.

Founder Jeff Bezos’s motto was “get big fast,” and Seattle-
based Amazon eventually morphed into an e-commerce
colossus, selling everything from groceries to furniture to
live ladybugs, and helping to revolutionize the way people
shop.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos, the founder, executive chairman,
and former president and CEO of Amazon.

Krispy Kreme founder Vernon Rudolph "bought a secret yeast-
raised doughnut recipe from a New Orleans French chef."

According to Krispy Kreme’s website, Rudolph set up a doughnut
factory in present-day Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
and began to sell doughnuts to area grocery stores on this day in
1937.

"The delicious scents of cooking doughnuts drifted into the
and passersby stopped to ask if they could buy hot doughnuts."

Rudolph created the first Krispy Kreme storefront by cutting a
hole in the wall of his building, allowing people to buy a glazed
doughnut right on the sidewalk.

Vernon Carver Rudolph
(June 30, 1915 – August 16, 1973)

DeLorean died at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, from
a stroke, on March 19, 2005, at the age of 80. His ashes are
interred at the White Chapel Cemetery, in Troy, Michigan.

The film Back to the Future was released in 1985, featuring
DeLorean’s namesake car, and DeLorean wrote to writer and
producer Bob Gale thanking him for immortalizing the car.