Portal:Ohio/Did you know/18
< Portal:Ohio | Did you know
- ... that 1949 Michigan football MVP Dick Kempthorn later flew more than 100 missions as a jet fighter pilot in the Korean War and received the Distinguished Flying Cross?
- ... that Francis A. Chenoweth served as speaker of both the Oregon House of Representatives and the Washington House of Representatives?
- ... that John W. Lambert (pictured) in 1891 made the first U.S. car for sale as well as Union cars and Lambert cars using his gasoline engines and gearless transmissions for the Union car company and Lambert car company as subsidiaries of the Buckeye Manufacturing Company?
- ... that U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes considered the founding of Ohio State University one of his two greatest achievements?