May 7, 1946
Two Japanese physicists Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation (Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo KK).
The small company had 20 employees only.
Decades later, the company became a world legend.
Masaru Ibuka 井深大
Akio Morita 盛田昭夫
Today is
National Scrapbook Day
(first Saturday in May, U.S.)
Everyone has had a scrapbook, or more than one.
Remember how you cut the newspapers and pasted the interesting pieces into a notebook? That's one of my sweetest memories about primary school.
A scrapbook album is a collection of pages, typically bound like a book or a photo album, containing photos, journaling, ephemera, clippings, letters, tiny trinkets, and other souvenirs.
May 7, 1873
Salmon P. Chase, the American lawyer, politician, antislavery leader, Chief Justice, senator, governor of Ohio, died at age 65.
To honor Chase for introducing the modern system of banknotes, he was depicted on the $10,000 bill printed from 1928 to 1946. Chase was instrumental in placing the phrase "In God We Trust" on United States coins in 1864.