This month in History – April
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires
1868 A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever – a 50-foot tidal wave
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1827 US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils