1794: Inventor Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin. While it took a single slave about ten hours to separate a single pound of fiber from the seeds, a team of two or three slaves using a cotton gin could produce around fifty pounds of cotton in just one day. The number of slaves rose in concert with the increase in cotton production, increasing from around 700,000 in 1790 to around 3.2 million in 1850. By 1860, the Southern states were providing two-thirds of the world’s supply of cotton, and up to 80% of the crucial British market. The cotton gin thus “transformed cotton as a crop and the American South into the globes first agricultural powerhouse, and – according to many historians – was the start of the Industrial Revolution. h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9530 uh.edu/engines/epi127.htm 1923: Warren G. Harding is the first president of the United States to pay taxes. 1972: Carole King wins four Grammys, including Record of the Year for Its Too Late. 1967: New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 500th career home run against the Baltimore Orioles. 1970: 44 years ago Paul Simon and Art Garfunkels Bridge Over Troubled Water is number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
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