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1858 Feb 8 |
A record brawl in the US House of Representatives erupted over the issue of slavery. Wisconsin Congressman John F. Potter pulled a wig off a Mississippi congressman and declared “I’ve scalped him.” Links: USA, Wisconsin, Mississippi, DC, Slavery 
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1867 Oct 11 |
Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule applied for a patent on their new direct action typewriter. Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890), Carlos Glidden (1834-1877) and Samuel Soule had invented the typewriter in the 1860s. Charles E. Weller coined the phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party" to check out the first typewriter built in Milwaukee. Links: USA, Technology, Wisconsin
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1867 |
Jacob Leinenkugel, an immigrant from Bavaria, founded Leinenkugel Beer to supply the lumberjack community of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. In 1988 the family business agreed to be acquired by the Miller Brewing Co. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Beer
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1871 Oct 8 1871 Oct 14 |
In Peshtigo, Wisc., some 1,500 people were killed in the nation’s worst forest fire, which burned across six counties and into Michigan. Links: USA, Michigan, Wisconsin, Disaster, Fire
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1871 |
P.T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum,1810-1891), US showman, founded "The Greatest Show On Earth" in Delavan, Wis. He presented General Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind (1820-1870), "The Swedish Nightingale," to the public. He also introduced 3 rings to the circus. Links: USA, Wisconsin
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1876 |
Samuel T. Cooper purchased six hand-operated knitting machines and with his sons founds S.T. Cooper & Sons, a hosiery manufacturer located in Ludington, Michigan. At the turn of the century the company moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin. Links: USA, Michigan, Wisconsin, Fashion
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1877 |
Joseph S. Hartmann opened a luggage business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, making leather covered wooden steamer trunks. The Hartmann family ran the business until 1955. In 1959 the company moved to Lebanon, Tennessee and was later taken over by Clarion Capital Partners. Links: USA, Wisconsin
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1881 |
George B. Mattoon founded his Mattoon Manufacturing Co. in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. From 1904 to the 1950s the company manufactured upscale furniture. The name of the company was changed to Northern Furniture following Mattoon’s death (1916), when the Reiss family took over and re-named it R-Way Furniture. The Northern Furniture brand name continued. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Furniture
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1885 |
Joseph Steinwand created Colby cheese and named it after the township where his father built northern Clark County’s first cheese factory. In 2021 a bipartisan bill heard by the Wisconsin state Assembly committee aimed to make it the state's official cheese. Links: USA, Food, Wisconsin
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1888 |
In Wisconsin the Theresa diamond, weighing 21.5 carats, was found on or near the Green Lake Moraine near Kohlsville, Washington county. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Diamonds
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1895 |
In Wisconsin Frank Grove, James Clark, J. Howard Jenkins and George Jones co-founded OshKosh B’Gosh. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Retail
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1900 Jun 11 |
Belle Boyd (b.1844), former Confederate spy, died in Wisconsin. Her 1865 autobiography was titled “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison.” In 1944 Louis Sigaud authored “Belle Boyd: Confederate Spy.” Links: USA, Women, Wisconsin, Biography, Espionage
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1901 Jan 28 |
Byron Bancroft Johnson announced that the American League would play the 1901 baseball season as a major league and would not renew its membership in the National Agreement. The new league would include Baltimore and Washington, DC, recently abandoned by the National League. The league would also invade 4 cities where National League teams existed: Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia. The 8 charter teams included: the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Americans, Chicago White Stockings, Cleveland Blues, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Athletics, and Washington Senators. Links: USA, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Chicago, Baseball, Michigan, Wisconsin, DC
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1901 |
After the 1901 baseball season the Milwaukee Brewers were moved to St. Louis, Mo. Links: USA, Baseball, Missouri, Wisconsin
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1907 Oct 22 |
The five Ringling brothers of Baraboo, Wisconsin, bought out Barnum & Bailey Circus to form the Greatest Show on Earth. Links: USA, Wisconsin, M&A, Animal
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1912 Oct 14 |
Theodore Roosevelt, former president and the Bull Moose Party candidate, was shot at close range by anarchist William Schrenk while greeting the public in front of the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee while campaigning for the presidency. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and still managed to give a 90 minute address in Milwaukee after requesting his audience to be quiet because “there is a bullet in my body.” Schrenk was captured and uttered the now famous words "any man looking for a third term ought to be shot." Links: USA, Wisconsin, Anarchist, RooseveltT
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1912 Nov 4 |
Arizona and Kansas granted women the right to vote. Wisconsin voted against suffrage for women. Links: Kansas, Women, Arizona, Wisconsin
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1914 Aug 15 |
Mamah Borthwick Cheney, the mistress of Frank Lloyd Wright, was axed to death along with her 2 children and 4 others by a crazed servant at Wright’s rural Taliesin home. Wright restored the house, which was set aflame in the rampage. The house was ravaged by fire again in 1925 and again restored by Wright. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Architect
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1916 |
The Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. of Clintonville, Wis., got a boost from WW I demand for its trucks. Links: Wisconsin, Cars
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1917 Nov 24 |
In Wisconsin a large black powder bomb exploded at a Milwaukee police station killing 9 officers and a female civilian. It had been discovered by a social worker, next to an evangelical church. It was suspected at the time that the bomb had been placed outside the church by anarchists, particularly by adherents of Luigi Galleani. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Terrorism
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1919 Jun 10 |
Wisconsin became the first state to ratify the 19th amendment granting national suffrage to women. Links: USA, Women, Wisconsin
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1927 |
John Hammes (1895-1953), a Wisconsin architect, invented the sink-connected garbage disposal. In 1938 he started the InSinkErator company, which later became a part of Emerson Electric Corp. Links: USA, Technology, Food, Wisconsin, Architect, Inventor
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1928 |
Frank Lloyd Wright announced that he would establish his own school of architecture. He took in 60 students for $300 in tuition plus voluntary labor at his Taliesen homestead in Spring Green, Wisconsin. In 2006 Roger Friedland authored “The Fellowship,” an account of Wright and his students. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Architect
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1932 Jan |
Wisconsin became the first state to provide unemployment benefits. Links: USA, Labor, Wisconsin
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1933 |
A Wisconsin milk strike began as a series of strikes conducted by a cooperative group of dairy farmers in an attempt to raise the price of milk paid to producers during the Great Depression. Three main strike periods occurred in 100933, with length of time and level of violence increased during each one. Links: USA, Labor, Food, Wisconsin, Agriculture
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1934 |
A postcard of a man in bikini shorts inspired a Wisconsin-based Cooper’s Inc. designer to invent Jockey Shorts, the first pair of briefs. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Fashion
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1942 Dec |
Dr. Ira Baldwin (1896-1999), plant bacteriologist at the Univ. of Wisconsin, was selected to head US biological warfare. Links: USA, Microbiology, Wisconsin, Biology
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1948 |
Two Milwaukee lawyers founded Manpower after they failed to find extra administrative help for an urgent legal brief. By 2009 the company had over 4,000 offices in 82 countries. Links: USA, Labor, Wisconsin
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1955 |
The Old Milwaukee brand was first brewered by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Wisconsin. It was the first beer brand launched exclusively as a “popular” beer. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Beer
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1957 |
William Proxmire (1915-2005), Wisconsin Democrat, won a special election to fill the seat of US Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. Proxmire served until 1989. Links: USA, Wisconsin
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1959 |
Wisconsin became the 1st US state to enact a comprehensive collective bargaining law. Links: USA, Labor, Wisconsin
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1962 |
Edwin Traisman (1915-2007), food researcher for McDonald’s, patented a method for preparing frozen French fried potatoes. In 1968 his associate Ken Strong patented a method for quick frying cut potatoes before freezing along with a short steam blanch to preserve sugars and other flavors. Traisman was instrumental in the development of Cheese Whiz for Kraft Foods and had bought the first McDonald’s franchise in Madison, Wis., in the late 1950s. Links: USA, Food, Wisconsin
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1962 |
Kohl’s discount department store was founded in Wisconsin. The company went public in 1992 and by 2009 it counted 1,059 stores nationwide, including 121 in California. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Retail
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1967 Dec 10 |
Singer Otis Redding (26) died in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin. He had recently recorded “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay,” which became a big hit in 1968. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Pop&Rock
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1968 Jan 14 |
The Green Bay Packers under Vince Lombardi, after winning its third consecu-tive NFL championship, won the 2nd Super Bowl Football game over the Oakland Raiders. This was Lombardi's last game as coach of the Packers. The game drew the first $3 million gate in football history. In 1999 David Maraniss authored "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi." Links: USA, Wisconsin, Football
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1968 Jan 28 |
Vince Lombardi resigned as coach of Wisconsin’s Green Bay Packers, two weeks after winning Super Bowl II. He remained as general manager. On Feb 1 Phil Bengtson was named coach of the Packers. Links: Wisconsin, Football
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1968 Apr 2 |
Senator Eugene McCarthy won the Democratic primaries in Wisconsin. In 2004 Dominic Sandbrook authored "Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Lib-eralism." Links: USA, Wisconsin, Biography
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1968 |
In Grand Chute, Wis., a night watchman was killed during a robbery at a car dealership. In 2005 police in Appleton, Wis., arrested Robert Mitchell (75) for the murder. Links: USA, Murder, Wisconsin
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1970 Apr 22 |
The first Earth Day and Earth Week was celebrated and millions protested pollution on Earth and their concern for the environment. The event was organized by a 33-member committee in Philadelphia. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson suggested Earth Day as a means to focus national attention on ecological issues. Gaylord selected Pete McCloskey as co-chairman. Organizers later identified 12 anti-environment members of the US House and Senate, 7 of whom soon lost their seats. Links: USA, Environment, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, World
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1970 Jun 2 |
Har Gobind Khorana (1922-1993), Indian-American chemist at the Univ. of Wisconsin, announced the synthesis of the 1st artificial gene. Links: USA, Medical, Wisconsin, BioTech
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1970 Aug 24 |
A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing 33-year-old researcher Robert Fassnacht. On Sep 2 the FBI began a nationwide hunt for Dwight Armstrong (19), Karleton Armstrong (22), David S. Fine (18), and Leo F. Burt (22). Dwight Armstrong (1951-2010), the last to be caught, was arrested in Toronto in April, 1977. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Terrorism
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1970 Sep 3 |
Vince Lombardi (57), one of Fordham University‘s stalwart linemen known as the "Seven Blocks of Granite" during his college days, succumbed to cancer in Washington, D.C. He had recently coached the Washington Redskins to their first winning season in 14 years. Lombardi had previously coached the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships and victories in the first two Super Bowls. He went to the Washington Redskins in 1969 as head coach, general manager, and part owner. The team wound up with a 7-5-2 record for the season. In 1999 David Maraniss authored "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi." Links: USA, Wisconsin, Football, DC
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1970 Dec 31 |
Lorine Niedecker (b.1903), died. She was a Wisconsin-born objectivist-influenced poet. Links: USA, Poet, Wisconsin
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1970 |
George L. Mosse (1918-1999), a Univ. of Wisconsin historian, published "Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a 'Third Force' in Pre-Nazi Germany." Links: USA, Germany, Israel, Historian, Jews, Wisconsin
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1972 May 13 |
Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn. Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings. The game had started the evening of May 12. Links: USA, Minnesota, Baseball, Wisconsin
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1974 Oct 30 |
The film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was released in Los Angeles. It was narrated by John Larroquette and was first shown in San Francisco. The film was based on the story of Edward Gein, a handyman in Plainfield, Wis., who liked to dig up fresh graves, cut the skin off corpses, wear the skin on his own body and dance in the moonlight. He was picked up in this year and evidence showed that he'd been collecting body parts for years. He had skulls on bedposts, a human heart in a saucepan, and a lady out in his barn dressed like a deer. Links: USA, California, Wisconsin, Film
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1976 Jul 9 |
In Wisconsin Ellen Matheys (24) and David Schuldes (25) were fatally shot in McClintock Park in Silver Cliff. In early 2020 a judge ruled that Raymand Vannieuwenhoven (83), a man charged with the killing, is not mentally competent to stand trial. DNA from evidence from the assault was eventually used to tie him to the crime scene. In November, 2020, a judge ruled that Vannieuwenhoven is competent to stand trial. In 2021 he was convicted and sentenced to consecutive life sentences. Links: USA, Sex, Murder, Wisconsin, DNA
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1976 Jul 20 |
Hank Aaron hit his 755th and final home run off the California Angels' Dick Drago at Milwaukee County Stadium. Links: USA, Baseball, Wisconsin
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1978 |
William Steiger, congressman from Wisconsin, led a drive to reduce the capital gains tax rate from nearly 50% to 28%. In 1999 this was credited by Brian S. Wesbury in "The New Era of Wealth" as one of the factors that contributed to the economic boom of the 1990s. Links: USA, Wisconsin
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1979 Aug 14 |
In northern Wisconsin Rob Pfiel (27) was killed by a shotgun blast to the back of his head. 2 months earlier Rusk County sheriff’s deputies killed his 3 dogs because they had gotten loose. Rusk County DA Robert Rogers (d.1984), his wife Cherie Barnard, and 3 brothers were later accused of plotting to kill Pfiel, who had threatened to get even. In 2005 police arrested 2 of the Rogers brothers for Pfiel’s murder as well as Barnard. Links: USA, Murder, Wisconsin
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1979 Sep 16 |
In Wisconsin the Madison Press Connection published a detailed explanation of how to build a hydrogen bomb in an article written by Charles Hansen (1947-2003) of Mountain View, Ca. In 1988 Hansen published "U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History." Links: Wisconsin, Nuclear
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1979 Dec 26 |
Robert Ben Madison (14) founded the virtual Kingdom of Talossa in his Milwaukee, Wisc., bedroom and migrated it to the Internet in 1996. Links: USA, Internet, Wisconsin
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1980 Mar 11 |
Marilyn McIntyre (18) was beaten, stabbed and strangled to death at her home in Columbus, Wis. In 2009 Curtis Forbes, a friend of her husband, was charged with 1st degree murder based on DNA evidence. Links: USA, Murder, Wisconsin, DNA
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1981 Jan 18 |
Wendy O. Williams (1949-1998), lead singer for the punk band the Plasmatics, was arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity. Links: USA, Sex, Wisconsin, Pop&Rock
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1981 Dec 6 |
Harry Harlow (b.1905), psychologist, died. He spent his entire professional career teaching at the University of Wisconsin from 1930-1974. His focus of research was on the learning abilities in primates and he observed the phenomenon of 'learning to learn.' His work with infant monkeys and their surrogate mothers (terrycloth dummies) demonstrated the importance of bonding between primate mothers and infants for emotional health and growth. In 2003 Deborah Blum authored "Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection." Links: USA, Wisconsin, Psychology, Sociology, Primates
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1981 |
Dr. Dennis Maki and nurse Rita McCormick of the Univ. of Wisconsin published the first comprehensive study of how needle sticks transmit disease. Links: USA, Microbiology, Medical, Wisconsin
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1982 Feb 13 |
James Miller (37) died in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Miller, from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, had been working with indigenous youths as a member of the De La Salle Christian Brothers. In 2018 Pope Francis decreed that Miller was killed out of hatred for the Catholic faith during Guatemala's civil war and can be beatified. Links: Guatemala, USA, Vatican, Wisconsin
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1982 Jun 10 |
The Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company and the Old Milwaukee brand was acquired by Stroh Brewing Company of Detroit. The Old Milwaukee brand was first brewered by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. Links: USA, Michigan, Wisconsin, Beer
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1983 |
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (b.1910), commercial bakery worker, died In Milwaukee, Wis. He was also a prolific artist but never exhibited any of his work. Links: Artist, USA, Wisconsin
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1984 Oct 8 |
Attorney Cherie Barnard found Gary Grady, health club owner and drug dealer, shot to death in Novato, Ca. Later the same day Barnard’s husband Robert Rogers was found dead of an apparent suicide in the Berkeley Marina. In 2005 Barnard and Rogers were implicated in the 1979 murder of Robert Pfiel (27) in Wisconsin. Links: Murder, Wisconsin, SF Bay Area
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