2014 Event Two boys in a New York town are rescued early this morning after being inadvertently buried in snow by a snow plow; the plow operator did not see the children as he cleared snow from a parking lot in which they were building a snow fort 1947 Birthday David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir, Speed the Plow, House of Games 1937 Event Plow for laying submarine cable patented 1869 Event James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade 1833 Event John Deere makes 1st steel plow 1797 Event Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
