The world’s first parking meter, known as Park-O-Meter No.
1,was installed on the southeast corner of what was then
First Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma on July 16, 1935.
The parking meter was the brainchild of a man named Carl
C. Magee, who moved to Oklahoma City from New Mexico
in 1927.
Carl Magee
On July 15, 1903, the newly formed Ford Motor Company took
its first order from Chicago dentist Ernst Pfenning: an $850 two
-cylinder Model A automobile with a tonneau (or backseat).
The car, produced at Ford’s plant on Mack Street (now Mack
Avenue) in Detroit, was delivered to Dr. Pfenning just over a
week later.
Dr. Pfenning’s order turned out to be the first of many from
around the country, launching Ford on its way to profitability.
Within two months, the company had sold 215 Fords, and by
the end of its first year the Mack Avenue plant had turned out
some 1,000 cars.
Dr. Ernst Pfenning
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)
On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting company
Odeo officially released Twttr—later changed to Twitter—its short messaging service (SMS) for groups, to the public.
Born as a side project apart from Odeo’s main podcasting platform,
the free application allowed users to share short status updates
with groups of friends by sending one text message to a single
number (“40404”).
Over the next few years, as Twttr became Twitter, the simple “microblogging” service would explode in popularity, becoming
one of the world’s leading social networking platforms.
Internet entrepreneur/Twitter co-founder
Evan Clark Williams (53).
Evangelist Billy Graham with his son Franklin.
On July 14, 1952, William Franklin Graham III was born in
North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains. At that time, his
father Billy Graham’s international ministry was growing—
and the evangelist founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association.
On January 10, 1982, Franklin Graham was ordained before
3,000 people at Grace Community Church in Tempe, Arizona.
William Franklin Graham III is 73 years old today.
Graham has been considered as one of the most influential
and best-known evangelicals in America, leading one of the largest charitable organizations in the United States.
On July 14th, 1946, at the dawn of the post-World War II baby
boom, Dr. Benjamin Spock published The Common Sense
Book of Baby and Child Care. It would become a foundational
work on the topic of parenting, transforming how generations
of children were raised.
The book, which has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages, stands as one of the
best-selling nonfiction works of the 20th century.
Dr. Benjamin McLane Spock
(May 2, 1903–March 15, 1998)
In the decades after publishing what would become
a worldwide childcare bible, Benjamin Spock gained
renown for his political activism.
He became a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War,
the military draft and nuclear weapons; in 1968, he was
convicted for aiding draft resisters. In 1972, he ran—
and lost—as the People’s Party’s presidential candidate.
