Operation Plunder

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Although contested, the history of potato chips dates back to 1853 when Cornelius Vanderbilt sent his fried potatoes back to chef George Crum who sliced them as thin as possible before deep-frying them, becoming widely accepted as the inventor of the potato chip. 

The Compromise of 1877 involved collusion and closed-door politics to hand the White House to electoral vote loser Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for the end of Civil War Reconstruction.

Barney Oldfield was a competitive bicycle racer turned motor enthusiast who set auto racing records in the early 1900s after meeting Henry Ford.

Also known as Sasquatch, the legend of Bigfoot is a widely-known yet little-seen creature with over 4,600 professed sightings and a pseudoscience denomination known as cryptozoology attempting to prove its existence.

The history of Mother’s Day dates back to ancient Greece and medieval Britain but modern Mother’s day was inspired by Anna Jarvis who held a church service handing out white carnations to all the mothers in attendance.

Considered the most successful insurrection of the Revolutionary War, on January 1st, 1781 continental soldiers prepared to depart the camp without permission, complaining of low pay, horrendous living conditions and a mass insistence that their three-year enlistment terms had expired.

Cinco de Mayo, literally the fifth of May, is a holiday that celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s May 5, 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War.