That day - May 28, a history of stroke
Originally operated by the German Labor Front, a Nazi organization, Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany In addition to its ambitious campaign to build a highway network and roads with restricted access through Germany, the project Hitler company was the development and mass production of affordable but still fast vehicle that could sell for less than 1,000 Reich marks 140 when providing the design for the car people, Hitler called the Austrian automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche in 1938, during a Nazi rally, the Fuhrer is declared to the broad masses that this car was built its goal is to meet their transportation needs, and it is intended to give them the joy However, soon after the KdF Kraft durch Freude--Wagen Strength-through-Joy car was displayed for the first time at the Berlin Fair Show in 1939, World war II began, and Volks wagen halted production after the end of the war, with the factory in ruins, the Allies would be the Volkswagen object of their attempts to revive the German automotive industry.
Volkswagen sales in the US were initially slower than in other regions of the world, due to historical Nazi connections and small size of the car and rounded unusual shape in 1959, the agency Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising launched a historic campaign, dubbed the car the Beetle and turn its small size as an advantage for consumers in the coming years, VW has become automatic import most sold in the US in 1960, the German government sold 60 percent of Volkswagen's shares to the public, effectively denationalizing Twelve years later, the Beetle surpassed the longtime production record worldwide vehicle 15 million set by the legendary Ford model T Motor Company between 1908 and 1927.
With the Beetle design relatively unchanged since 1935, sales have grown sluggish in the early 1970s, VW has rebounded with the introduction of sportier models like the rabbit and later the Golf in 1998, the company started sell the highly touted New Beetle while continuing production of its predecessor After nearly 70 years and more than 21 million units produced, the last original Beetle out of line in Puebla, Mexico, July 30, 2003.
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Methane gas caused an explosion in a mine near Dharbad, India, which killed 375 people and injured hundreds more that day in 1965 The explosion was so powerful that even workers on the surface of the mine have killed, the mine was 225 miles northwest of Calcutta near the city of Dharbad and.
In the first commitment of the French and Indian War, a Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington goes against a French reconnaissance party in southwest Pennsylvania during a surprise attack the Virginians killed 10 French soldiers from fort Duquesne, including French commander Jumonville Coulon and took 21.
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, fell to the forces of the Revolutionary Democratic Front EPRDF Ethiopian people, formally ending 17 years of Marxist rule in Africa is 1974, Haile Selassie, the head of Ethiopia since 1930, was overthrown by a military coup Ethiopia's new leaders have created.
That day in 1998, the comedian and actor Phil Hartman, famous for his work on Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio, was shot to death by his troubled wife, Brynn, in a suicide murder 49 He was born September 24, 1948 , Ontario, Canada, Hartman was raised in Connecticut and South.
First successful novel by John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat, is published today Steinbeck, a native Californian, studied writing at Stanford intermittently between 1920 and 1925 but never graduated, he moved to New York and worked as a laborer and journalist writing his first two novels, which were not.
That day in 2014, author and poet Maya Angelou, who has published over 30 books, including 1969's I know why the Caged Bird Sings, a best-selling memoir on racism and violence she experienced growth, dies at 86 at his home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and more.
Irene Cara song Flashdance What a Feeling, the soundtrack to the film Flashdance, will pop the top US charts this day in 1983 Flashdance What feeling was not the first hit song for a movie soundtrack for Irene Cara, whose star was launched by the 1980 film.
Owen Wister The Virginian is published by Macmillan Press It was the first serious Western and one of the most influential in the genre almost single-handedly, the Virginian has transformed the American cowboy in a legendary hero At first, the writer Owen Wister seems an unlikely candidate for writing a book.
George Washington, a young lieutenant colonel in the British army and the future President of the United States leads an attack against French forces at Jumonville Glen that day in 1754 The battle is then credited with being the first salvo of opening in the French and Indian war from 1754 to 1763.
May 28, 1957, the owners of the National League voted unanimously to allow the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to move to San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively, at the meeting of the mid-season owner in Chicago , Illinois, there were, however, conditions attached to the decision of the first owners, whether both teams had to move.
US troops abandon Ap Bia Mountain A spokesman for the 101st Airborne Division said that US troops completed their search of the mountain and now continue their effective reconnaissance mission throughout the A Shau Valley this ad was made in the midst of public outcry about what had become known.
In the first US offensive supported the First World War, an allied force including a full brigade of nearly 4 000 US capture soldiers the village of Cantigny on the Somme in France, their German enemy Although the US officially entered the First World War the side of.
That day in 1940, after 18 days of non-stop bombing German, King of Belgium, who asked for an armistice, is given the capitulation without optional condition, it takes the German forces had moved to Belgium on 10 May , part of Hitler's initial offensive west Despite some support by.
Volkswagen was founded May 28, 1937, volkswagen 1937.