The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of
Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942, and
February 9, 1943 in the Pacific theater of World War II
on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the southern
Solomon Islands, and was the first major offensive
launched by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
MIKE GRACIA
BRACE BEEMER (center) was original announcer then the second actor to portray The Lone Ranger on the radio
series.
The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger premiered on
radio January 30, 1933 on WXYZ radio in Detroit, Michigan
and later on the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network
and then on NBC’s Blue Network (which became ABC, which
broadcast the show’s last new episode on September 3, 1954).
World War II restrictions cut deep into every American pantry as
federal officials announced that sliced bread would be rationed
on this day in history, Jan. 18, 1943.
"I should like to let you know how important sliced bread is to
the morale and saneness of a household," distraught mother
Sue Forrester of Fairfield, Connecticut, claiming to speak on
behalf of America’s housewives, lamented in a New York Times
letter to the editor.
Wartime rationing had already caused severe restrictions on
the nation’s household food supply.
Basic resources were devoted in ever-growing volume to the
war effort in 1943, as the tide of battle turned and the U.S. and
its Allies went on the offensive across the vast expanse of two
oceans.
Bread rationing marked the depths of sacrifices on the home
front.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa invented the
first single loaf bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built
in 1912 was destroyed in a fire, and it was not until 1928
that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. The
first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, who sold their
first slices on July 7, 1928.
By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced,
leading to the popular idiom "greatest thing since sliced
bread"
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
(July 7, 1880 – November 8, 1960)
This photograph depicts a "new electrical bread
slicing machine" in use by an unnamed bakery
in St. Louis in 1930.
LIFE Magazine cover with a Fletcher Martin war painting.
Fletcher Martin (April 19, 1904 – May 30, 1979)
CARLATA BRADLEY
Pat Sajak ( Patrick Leonard Sajdak) is 76 years old today.
Sajak is a television personality and game show host. He is
best known as the host of the American television game
show Wheel of Fortune, a position he has held since 1981.
