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1966 Event - Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks

1957 Death - Harrison Ford, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73

1948 Event - 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron, Ohio

1945 Event - 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia

1944 Birthday - Martin Fried, rocker, Cyrkle-Red Rubber Ball

1943 Event - Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core

1940 Event - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh

1940 Event - The synthetic rubber tire unveiled

1931 Event - 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured

1931 Event - Dupont introduces synthetic rubber

1930 Event - Synthetic rubber 1st produced

1929 Event - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber

1921 Death - John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81

1918 Birthday - Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist

1899 Event - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan

1868 Birthday - Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road

1865 Death - Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies

1847 Event - Robert Thompson patents rubber tire

1846 Event - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire

1845 Event - Rubber band patents

1845 Event - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London

1844 Event - Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber

1840 Birthday - John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer, pneumatic rubber tire

1837 Event - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1824 Event - J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public

1821 Event - James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose

1813 Event - Rubber is patented

1800 Birthday - Charles Goodyear, inventor, vulcanization process for rubber

1786 Birthday - Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry

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