Toast!

Today The Daily Shirt ruminates on things which ignite, in more ways than one. On this date in 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first powered-airplane flight (the Wright Flyer held a gasoline engine) in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Today in 1880 Thomas Alva Edison incorporates the Edison Electric Illuminating Company to provide electric light to New York City. Also on this day in 1924 the first diesel-electric locomotive goes into service in the Bronx, New York. This was also a popular date for going up in flames: In 1938 the Utrecht Central Station (the Netherlands) is destroyed this way and on this day in 1961 a disgruntled employee — I'm thinking it has to be a clown — sets fire to a circus tent in Niteroi, Brazil. Continuing in the vein of combustible materials and flammability today in 1892, also in North Carolina, federal agents destroy 5,000 gallons of moonshine (a record at the time), in 1936 on this date Edgar Bergen debuts over network radio with his flammable wooden friend Charlie McCarthy, in 1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine in Massachusetts and today in 1965 the Sunday New York Times — which sells for 50 cents — reaches a record 946 pages. That's a lot of kindling! This day also marks the 1875 Bread Riot in Montreal. I'm not exactly sure what happened there but perhaps the event included some heated incidents of toast.

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