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  • #32324
    Peggy
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    Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet in what year?

    #32326
    englandboy – John
    Participant

    January 13, 1863 in History. 🙂

    The first electric kettle was exhibited in – what year – by the Carpenter Electric Co. at an exhibition in Chicago. 🙂

    #32330
    Peggy
    Member

    1893

    (Is it just me, but isn’t it kind of strange that someone with that last name invented that? 😆 )

    Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey in what year?

    #32334
    englandboy – John
    Participant

    15 January 1559.

    The Raytheon Corporation produced the first commercial microwave oven in 1954; it was called the 1161 Radarange. It was large, expensive, and had a power of 1600 watts. The first domestic microwave oven was produced in – WHAT YEAR – by Amana (a division of Raytheon). 🙄

    #32339
    Peggy
    Member

    1967

    The can opener was invented in what year? (By Ezra Warner)

    #32342
    englandboy – John
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    1858

    A top nuclear scientist has been jailed for fourteen years at the Old Bailey for spying for the Soviet Union.
    Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, 38, a civil servant from Harwell in Berkshire, pleaded guilty to four offences under the Official Secrets Act.
    What year?

    #32344
    Peggy
    Member

    1950

    What year did the Berlin wall come down?

    #32352
    englandboy – John
    Participant

    1989

    President Johnson signs Civil Rights Bill. The year was?

    #32365
    Peggy
    Member

    1964

    England won football’s World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930. What Year?

    #32372
    englandboy – John
    Participant

    1966 :nana:

    Pan Am flight 103 was just 38 minutes into its flight to New York when the bomb hidden in its luggage hold exploded.
    The aircraft disintegrated and plunged several thousand feet onto the town of Lockerbie in south-west Scotland, killing all on board and 11 people on the ground.

    The year please 🙂

    #32381
    Peggy
    Member

    Figured you would get that one England! 😆

    1988

    Kenya’s president, Jomo Kenyatta, died at his home in Mombasa in what year?

    #32388
    englandboy – John
    Participant

    22 August 1978.

    Britons killed in Cairo riots
    Reports from Egypt say at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in anti-British riots in Cairo. The year?

    #32391
    Peggy
    Member

    1952

    What year was the green plastic garbage bag invented by Harry Wasylyk ?

    #32395
    englandboy – John
    Participant

    1950

    Levi Strauss, the Bavarian-born American icon who clothed rugged cowboys in their signature work pants. The young immigrant made his way to San Francisco with his siblings in tow and dreams of success filling his head. In “WHAT YEAR” did he established a dry-goods store on Battery Street, where it remained for 40 years.

    😕

    #32404
    generall
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    Peggy wrote:
    1893

    (Is it just me, but isn’t it kind of strange that someone with that last name invented that? 😆 )
    that’s prob. how it got it’s nick name.. wonder if his middle name was john.

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