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
