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Henry Timken of Canton developed the roller bearing
in 1898.
John Lambert of
Ohio City made America’s first
automobile in 1891.
Charles Kettering of Loudonville invented the first
automobile self-starter in 1911.
Garrett Morgan of Cleveland invented the first traffic
light in 1923.
James Ritty of Dayton developed the first cash register
in 1878.
Roy J. Plunkett of New Carlisle invented Teflon in
1938.
W. F. Semple of Mount Vernon patented chewing gum
in 1869.
The Wright Brothers, a pair of bicycle shop owners
from Dayton, became the first in flight in 1903.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta became
the first man to walk on the moon.
John Glenn from New Concord was the first American
to orbit the Earth in 1962. In 1998, at age 77, he became the oldest American
to travel into space.
NASA Space Shuttle astronaut Judith Resnick was born
in Akron.
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DeHart Hubbard was the first African-American to
earn an Olympic gold medal. A long jumper, he set an Olympic record in
the 1924 Olympic games held in Paris.
African-American track star Jesse Owens, who won four
gold medals during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, grew up in Cleveland and
graduated from The Ohio State University.
Actors Drew Carey, Paul Newman and
Debra Winger all hail from Cleveland.
Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry also was
raised in Cleveland.
Actor Luke Perry is from Fredericktown, Ohio.
Film director Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati.
Legendary comedians Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller
are from Ohio.
Nancy Lopez and Jack Nicklaus,
two of the world’s finest professional golfers, are both from
Ohio.
Baseball legend Cy Young was born in Gilmore and later
moved to Newcomerstown.
Opera soprano Kathleen Battle was
born in Portsmouth and earned her bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of
Cincinnati.
Literary great Paul Laurence Dunbar – known
as the poet laureate of African Americans – was from Dayton.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is from
Lorain.
Doris Day, Clark Gable, Lillian
Gish, Dean Martin and Hal Holbrook
are all famous movie actors who were born in Ohio.
Annie Oakley,
a world champion sharpshooter, who traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody’s
Wild West Show, was born in Darke County in 1860.
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1983
- Marysville Honda plant dedicated.
1986
- Astronaut Judith Resnick, of Akron, dies in the Challenger space shuttle
explosion.
1990
- Ohioans struggle through the economic downturn of the 1980s; the 1990
Census reports a slow 0.5% population increase.
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