American surfer, entrepreneur, adventurer, and inventor, Jack O'Neill was born On This Day, March 27, 1923.

O’Neill is widely credited with inventing the wetsuit. Wanting to surf longer in the colder waters of Northern California, he popularized the neoprene wetsuit. He established the O'Neill surf wear and gear company in 1952. He was widely known for his eye patch, which he wore due to a surfing accident.

Although O'Neill is widely perceived to be the wetsuit inventor, an investigation concluded that UC Berkeley physicist Hugh Bradner was most likely the original inventor.

Jack O'Neill was a Denver native who grew up in Oregon and southern California, where he began body surfing in the late 1930s. He received a degree in business from University of Portland in Oregon.

During World War II, O’Neill was a pilot in the Naval Air Corps before moving to San Francisco, CA, where he worked as a taxi driver, fisherman, lifeguard, longshoreman, traveling salesman, and draftsman. Duri

Renowned French Mime, Marcel Marceau, was born On this Day, March 22, 1923. Expert in the practice of silence, his most famous quote is, "".

Born in Strasbourg, France as Marcel Mangel— his father, Charles Mangel, was a kosher butcher originally from Będzin, Poland. His mother, Anne Werzberg, came from Yabluniv, present-day Ukraine.

When Marcel was four years old, the family moved to Lille, but they later returned to Strasbourg. When he was 16, the Nazis marched into eastern France. Marcel and his family fled with his family to Limoges in the southwest where he lived in hiding.

He would ultimately change his name to Marceau— to hide his Jewish roots, and to honor François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, a general of the French Revolution.

His father was a baritone who loved music and the theater, and he introduced Marcel to both at an early age. Marcel was captivated by the silent film stars of the era: Chaplin, Buster Keaton and the Marx brothers.

He was schooled in the Paris

Most people believe that the famous “M” on the candy shell stands for Mars Incorporated, the company that produces M&M’s. While Mars was the principal inventor of M&M's, there are two M’s in that name, and that name signifies the work of two men—both with the initial “M”—and who were originally responsible for the production of M&Ms.

Forrest Edward Mars, Sr. was one “M” and the other “M” was Bruce Murrie.

Today is a fitting time to discuss the origins of M&Ms because Forrest Mars was born on this day, March 21, 1904.

Forrest grew up in a candymaker’s house, and immediately had some some big shoes to fill. His father’s home business grew to invent and sell some of the world’s most famous candy bars, including Snickers, Mars Bars, and Milky Way. And Forrest continued and built on that legacy.

Here is the story of M&M candy and it’s controversial founder, Forrest Mars, Sr.

Forrest Mars was born in Wadena, Minnesota, but after his parents' divorce when he was 6 years old, and

On This Day, March 20, 1917, the modern all-purpose zipper is patented, by Gideon Sundback.

These days, zippers are so commonplace on clothing that we don’t really them–until they stop working. We routinely take them for granted. We zip them up and down many times daily without ever giving a second thought to who invented them, how complex they are, or how much of an innovation they were more than a century ago.

But today, take a look at a zipper on whatever you’re wearing. You’ll see the little teeth are lined up on two separate pieces of cloth tape. The slider device that unites the teeth has to move smoothly up and down, or side-to-side, and it requires a small but easy-to-use pull-tab. Once closed, the teeth need to provide a firm hold. Zippers also need a “stop” piece at both the top and the bottom of the zipper to keep a slider from running off its track.

The challenge of the earliest zippers was making ones that were reliable and that would lie flat. If the zipper buc

Henry Faulds was a Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist who has become widely known as the "Father of Fingerprinting." In 1880, he was the first to suggest using fingerprints for criminal investigations using a classification system that he developed. But during his lifetime, he never received the credit for his discovery. Here is his story...

Henry Faulds was born on June 1, 1843 in Beith, Scotland. His parents were initially wealthy but lost much of their fortunes following the City of Glasgow bank collapse in 1855.

Unable to continue his education, Henry had to drop out of school as a 13 year old to take up a job and to help support his family. He found employment as a clerk. Later on he became apprenticed to a shawl manufacturer. After working for a few years he decided to further his education. He was a bright young man and at the age of 21 he started attending classes in mathematics, logic, and classics at Glasgow University.

However, it was not long before he reali

You may not remember the name of Adam Osborne as easily as Steve Jobs, but there was a time when he was even more famous. If you read computer books, use a laptop, or rely on low cost software then you can thank Adam Osborne for each of those. Sadly, he’s more widely known for an imprudent business decision that still carries his name—the "Osborne Effect.”

He created the first commercially available portable computer, the Osborne 1. After announcing the development of his company's new advanced computers, buyers chose to wait for the new computers, thus killing the sales of the current Osborne 1, bankrupting the company.

But Adam Osborne deserves much more credit than simply being remembered for a business phenomenon that’s been named after him.

Osborne was born in Thailand in 1939 to British parents and spent much of his ch

On this Day, March 17, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur first makes his famous declaration, "I shall return" after leaving the Philippines during World War II.

President Franklin Roosevelt, fearful of one of America’s most successful and well-known generals being taken captive by the Japanese if Corregidor fell, was too bitter a conclusion to contemplate.

On February 23, Secretary of War Harry Stimson and Chief of Staff George Marshall sent MacArthur a message ordering him to leave the Philippines for Australia.

The President directs that you make arrangements to leave and proceed to Mindanao. You are directed to make this change as quickly as possible … From Mindanao you will proceed to Australia where you will assume command of all United States troops … Instructions will be given from here at your request for the movement of submarine or plane or both to enable you to carry out the foregoing instructions. You are authorized to take your chief of staff General Sutherland.

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