DECEMBER 12 -- 2015 Facebook becomes the biggest growing name in history; INVENTION/PATENTS: 1927 Happy Birthday Robert Noyce (mayor of Silicone Valley), 1946 Tide laundry detergent introduced; 2014 Ramminator becomes world's fastest monster truck
DECEMBER 12 -- 2015 Facebook becomes the biggest growing name in history; INVENTION/PATENTS: 1927 Happy Birthday Robert Noyce (mayor of Silicone Valley), 1946 Tide laundry detergent introduced; 2014 Ramminator becomes world's fastest monster truck
DECEMBER 12
12 2015 – Facebook becomes the fastest growing name brand in the history of the world, according to Interbrand. Mark Zuckerberg of course founded this social networking site in 2004 along with his Harvard buddy and roommate Eduardo Saverin. At first the site’s membership was limited to Harvard students, but as its popularity increased, expanded to the rest of Boston, followed by other Ivy League Schools, then other universities in the US and Canada, and by February 2006 Facebook had opened the gates and let in all of Planet Earth. In 2012 the company went public, but the mobile app wasn’t ready yet. Investors stalled. But after Facebook improved the app and marketed it properly, it found instant sales growth of…wait for it…51% according to ZenithOptimedia. And Facebook continued its unstoppable growth, according to Interbarand experienced 48% increase in revenue from its 5012 price of $5.09 to, ouch for those of us wannabe traders, $17.93 per share. After all, 1.5 BILLION users can’t be wrong, right?
1917 – Father Flanagan opens up the Boys Town. ...Edward J. Flanagan, born in Ireland in 1886, was the founder and visionary of the Boys Town at the Workingmen’s Hotel in the broken streets of Omaha, Nebraska. He firmly believed, there are no bad boys, there is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking. Troubled and neglected children came flooding in to his home to receive love, a home, an education, and a trade. In 1921, the Boys Town ran out of space for these boys, so Fr. Flanagan moved Boys Town to the Overlook Farm on 139th and W. Dodge Rd., on the other side of town. The enrollment of delinquent boys grew to over a hundred, and Fr. Flanagan extended Boys Town into a grade school, high school, and career vocational center. The school grew to over 1300 students within months, and it expanded further with the financial assistance of the people of Omaha.
According to his website, the federal government called on Father Flanagan to help children both nationally and internationally. After World War II, President Truman asked him to travel to Asia and Europe to attend discussions about children left orphaned and displaced by the war. During a tour of Europe, he fell ill and died of a heart attack in Berlin, Germany, on May 15, 1948. The institution has since changed its name to the Girls and Boys Club, and is considered a safe haven for delinquencies to this very day. Father Flanagan saw the best in the worst of kids. Boys Town, everybody, like a boss!
1927 – Happy birthday Robert Noyce, aka the mayor of Silicon Valley. He co-founded the Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corp in 1968 along with Jack Kilby with the realization of the first integrated circuit, or microchip which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave the Silicon valley its nickname. 1946 – Tide laundry detergent is introduced. Well, what did you expect, the Europeans to come up with it? They can’t clean themselves, let alone their clothes! In 2006, Tide was designated as an ACS national historic chemical landmark of its significance as the first heavy duty synthetic detergent. 1899 – George F. Bryyant patents the wooden golf tee.
1989 – The Queen of Mean is sentenced to four years behind bars. Real estate tycoon Leona Helmsley was nailed for mail fraud and tax evasion December 12, 1989. She started out as a successful residential seller in 1972 when she married Harry Helmsley, her fourth marriage by the way, who was worth about $5M and had assets all over New York City. They rarely paid their employees and contractors on time, or just not at all sometimes, causing litigation. Leona is famous for saying We don’t pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes. Ho ho ho! She would serve time in jail from 1992-1994, and die of a heart attack age 87 in 2007, leaving $12M to her dog Trouble. Fear not, dog lovers! In April 2009, trustees for Leona Helmsley's estate started distributing her fortune by awarding $136 million to charitable causes and $1 million going towards "purposes related to the provision of care for dogs."
2014 -- Raminator becomes the world’s fastest monster truck.
This 10 foot tall magnificent beast is driven by Mark Hall. It uses a 565 cubic inch supercharged Hemi-engine that produces 2,000 horsepower. While it weighs 11,000 pounds, about the size of an adult rhinoceros, and faster than the world’s fastest mammal, the cheetah. Meow, m-fers! That said, the Raminator crushes city buses, just for fun.
Mark built the Raminator with his brother Tim, and it clocked 99.1 miles per hour on this day in 2014 at the Circuit of Americas in Austin s in Austin Texas. .
USA! USA!USA!
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