Ice cream cones

The first ice cream cone was introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. Ernest Hamwi, a waffle vendor at the Fair, began filling his waffles with a nearby ice cream vendor's ice cream. The ice cream cone was born. Hamwi later founded the Missouri Cone Company which grew to be one of the largest ice cream cone makers in the United States.
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Web pages

Tim Berners-Lee began work on a hypertext browser and editor in October 1990. One month later, he produced the first world wide web server and web page. The first web server was named nxoc01.cern.ch. The first web page was theproject.html. Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.
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Thomas Edison

On October 28, 1868, Thomas Edison applied for his first patent for the Electrical Vote Recorder. Thomas Alva Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 U.S. patents in his name. Edison's famous inventions include the phonograph, the light bulb, and the motion picture camera. He also improved the typewriter and the telegraph.
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Muhammad Ali

Olympic gold medal boxer Cassius Clay won his first professional boxing match on October 28, 1960 in Louisville, Kentucky. Cassius Clay would later take the name Muhammad Ali and reign as "The Greatest of All Time." Through two-decades the controversial boxing icon brought boxing to new heights in claiming, and reclaiming, the heavyweight title in several classic boxing matches.
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Marijuana

The first known use of Marijuana goes back further than 7,000 B.C. Over the centuries, the hemp plant was used for food and for weaving cloth and making rope. America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. The law ordered all farmers to grow Indian hempseed to alleviate a shortage of the essential raw material used for making rope.
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Poker

The first modern game of Poker was most likely played on Mississippi riverboats during the mid 1830s. The "Cheating Game," played with five cards, was adapted from the three-card bluffing game "poque," introduced to America by the French in the 18th century. Author Jonathan H. Green coined the name Poker in his book about gambling written in the late 1830s.
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Niagara Falls in a barrel

Annie Taylor holds the distinction of being the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. On October 24, 1901, the 63-year old school teacher was strapped into a wooden barrel and dropped into the Niagara River. Taylor emerged from her barrel 17 minutes after the plunge over the Falls, dazed but triumphant.
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