C&D opens a battery manufacturing plant in Attica, Indiana. The company’s oldest plant still in operation, it manufactures all C&D flooded lead-acid batteries. 1941-1945 During World War II, C&D turned its attention to developing industrial batteries, a focus it honed over subsequent decades as...
Birthday- American folk legend Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845) was born in Leominster, Massachusetts (as John Chapman). For 40 years, he traveled through Ohio, Indiana and into Illinois, planting orchards. He was a friend to wild animals and was regarded as a "great medicine man" by Native ...
Bethesda, Maryland: Attica, 1993. Salutos, Theodore. The Greeks in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Scourby, Alice. The Greek Americans. Boston: Twayne, 1977. Treasured Greek Proverbs, compiled, edited, and translated by Elaine G. Bucuvalas, Catherine ...
Thursday, September 9th, 1971: Rioting in New York’s infamous Attica prison breaks out after the prisoners seized control of a cellblock and took 42 civilian and prison employees hostage. Led by 21-year-old “LD Barkley,” the riot quickly forces New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller to ...