1839 —Inventor Edmond Berger patented the spark plug. The spark plug creates the electrical spark that ignites the gasoline/air mixture in the combustion chamber of an automobile.
1897 –Alfred Cralle invented the ice cream scoop. Can you imagine school cafeterias and ice cream shops without ice cream scoopers?
1915 –The NAACP awards its first-ever Springarn Medal to 32-year-old zoologist Ernest E. Just for his pioneering research in fertilization and cell division. Later Springarn winners included such people as W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, Thurgood Marshall, Leontyne Price, Bill Cosby, Gen. Colin Powell and Oprah Winfrey.
1995 — Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. became the first African American to walk in space.
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