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1040 – Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1866 – Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts
1892 – first concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1900 – ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
1981 – Walt Disney’s “Fox & The Hound” released
1981 – “Escape from New York” directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasence, premieres in the US
1985 – Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
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