This Day, That Year – March 12

Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time in Joseph A. Biedenharn’s candy store on this day in 1894.

Did you know that:

• Mahatma Gandhi began his famous protest march against the British salt tax on this day in 1930
• “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss was published by Random House and Houghton-Mifflin Company on this day in 1957
• Michael Vost patented a mailbox signaling device on this day in 1996