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The Shell Oil Company built eight shell-shaped gas stations in the 1930s. The only one left is in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Jonas Edward Salk discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. In 1952 there were 58,000 new cases reported in the U.S. and more than 3,000 deaths. Polio was eliminated from the United States in 1979 and from the Western Hemisphere in 1991.

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Amelia Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

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Delta is the oldest operating airline in the United States. Founded as Huff Daland Dusters for crop dusting, it was renamed Delta Air Service in 1928.

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America's first railroad. On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first U.S. railway chartered for commercial transport of passengers and freight. The B&O was acquired by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1963 and is now part of The CSX Corporation.

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Look America @LookAmerica3 Route 66 was established November 11, 1926. It originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km).

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The first McDonald's restaurant was started in 1948 by brothers Maurice (“Mac”) and Richard McDonald in San Bernardino, California. Shown is the third and oldest operating McDonald's restaurant. It was opened August 18, 1953 by Mac and Richard in Downey California.

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Light always conquers darkness.

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America's first radio network. NBC, the National Broadcasting Company, was created in 1926 by RCA, Radio Corporation of America. Their first nationwide broadcast was the 1927 Rose Bowl football game from Pasadena.

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John F. Kennedy’s heroics during World War II earned him a Navy and Marine Corps Medal and a Purple Heart. He is the only U.S. president to have earned either of those honors. When asked exactly how he became a war hero, Kennedy said, “It was involuntary. They sunk my boat.”

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President Herbert Hoover dedicated the Empire State Building on May 1, 1931. He took part in the dedication ceremony from the White House, pressing a button to illuminate what was then the tallest building in the world.

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Contrary to popular opinion, George Washington's dentures were not made of wood. Dr. John Greenwood, a prominent New York dentist, created a pair of dentures for Washington made of hippopotamus ivory.

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Martha Washington's portrait was featured on the $1 silver certificate in the 1880s and 1890s.

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Happy Birthday to Edgar Allan Poe, the Gothic Grandfather of American literature on his 211th birthday. #EdgarAllanPoe

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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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Benjamin Franklin was among the six men who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The other five were George Clymer, George Read, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris and James Wilson.

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On this day in history, January 1, 1906. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.