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On 28 August 1907 James E. Casey and Claude Ryan began the American Messenger Service in a basement at Second Avenue and Main Street in Seattle with US$100 borrowed from Ryan's uncle, the company that became United Parcel Service.

Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl found Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH at Bissingen an der Enz, the airship-engine works that moved to Friedrichshafen in 1911-12 and grew into MTU, today the mega-diesel engine brand of Rolls-Royce Power Systems profiled in this documentary.

Victorian Railways finished the current Flinders Street Station building in Melbourne, replacing earlier structures with the Federation Free Classical terminus still in use today. The building was essentially finished in 1909, with the official opening the following year.

Monaco's Prince Albert I inaugurated the Oceanographic Museum, an institution he founded to house his marine research, after eleven years of construction into a cliff face above the Mediterranean. The museum, later directed by Jacques Cousteau, remains one of the world's foremost centres for oceanography.

The chick-shaped hiyoko custard-bean cake was born in 1912 at the Yoshinodo confectioner in Iizuka, Fukuoka, and became a Tokyo souvenir after Hiyoko opened in Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics.

Nabisco's Oreo Biscuit, a chocolate sandwich cookie with cream filling made at its Chelsea factory in New York, was first sold on 6 March 1912 to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey.

A historic Parisian bistro serving French classics near the Hôtel de Ville.

On December 1, 1913, Ford Motor Company extended its moving line at the Highland Park plant to assemble a complete Model T chassis start to finish, cutting build time from over 12 hours to about 93 minutes.

Joe's opened on Miami Beach in 1913, before the causeway, and built itself around a shellfish nobody was eating: the stone crab, whose claws regrow, served chilled with mustard sauce. It closes for the summer when the season shuts and takes no reservations, which has not thinned the queue in a century.

The Panama Canal opened to commercial traffic on 15 August 1914 when the Panama Railroad steamer SS Ancon made the first official transit. The outbreak of World War I cancelled the planned grand celebration.

Albert Einstein reads The Field Equations of Gravitation to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, giving general relativity its final form after an inconsistency with observation sent him back to the drawing board.

A camp cook reported sick at Fort Riley's Camp Funston in Kansas, and within days hundreds of soldiers were down with influenza. It is the first recorded outbreak of the pandemic that killed more people than the war it travelled with - somewhere between 25 and 50 million.

Arthur Eddington presents the results of the May 1919 eclipse expeditions to Principe and Sobral at a joint session of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society at Burlington House. The measured deflection of starlight matches Einstein's prediction, and the meeting accepts it.

Cadbury's first factory outside Britain officially opened at Claremont on Hobart's Derwent River on October 21, 1921, drawn by Tasmania's cheap hydroelectricity and reliable dairy supply. The site still turns local milk and sugar into millions of Easter eggs and bunnies each year.

Naniwaya Seika began selling kaki no tane, the crescent-shaped soy-sauce arare, in 1924 (Japanese Wikipedia says 1925) after a crushed mould gave the cracker its persimmon-seed shape.

Hulda Zumsteg took over the Kronenhalle in 1924 and ran it for half a century, taking paintings in part payment and hanging them where the diners sat - so the walls now carry Chagall, Miró, Picasso and Matisse above the tables where Joyce and Giacometti ate.

Charles Lindbergh flew the Ryan NYP from Roosevelt Airfield on Long Island to Le Bourget in Paris, 3,600 miles in 33 hours and 30 minutes, the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight. It won him the $25,000 Orteig Prize.

The Chencun old shop serves thin steamed rice sheets alongside Shunde fried milk rolls, fish cakes and Cantonese dishes.

The St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon failed just before midnight on 12 March 1928, sending a flood about 55 miles to the Pacific and killing more than 400 people.

H. B. Reese created and introduced the peanut-butter-filled chocolate cup, first called Penny Cups, on 15 November 1928 per Wikipedia; Hershey archives say it was first introduced around 1928.

Reuben Schwartz opened his delicatessen on Saint-Laurent Boulevard on 31 December 1928, and it has smoked brisket the same way since - dry-cured with no nitrates, ten days in the cure, served hand-cut on rye. The queue outside the narrow room is a Montreal fixture.

The Shiyiwei Road main branch serves Liaoning dishes, including guobaorou, scallion-braised sea cucumber, pork and red-bean buns.

Mars introduced the Snickers bar in 1930, nougat topped with caramel and peanuts in milk chocolate and named after the Mars family's favorite horse; Wikipedia calls it widely considered the world's bestselling candy bar.

Pat Olivieri's stand at Ninth and Passyunk began selling chopped beef on a roll in 1930, which is the origin story the cheesesteak is usually given. The corner now holds it and its rival Geno's on opposite sides of the street, both open around the clock.

Ford-Werke produced its first vehicle, a Model A-based truck, at the new Cologne-Niehl plant, the German headquarters Henry Ford himself helped establish with Mayor Konrad Adenauer the year before. The site grew into the mini-city-sized mega factory shown in this documentary.

Months of flooding along the Yangtze and Huai rivers inundated Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, culminating in a dike breach at Lake Gaoyou on 25 August. Estimates of the dead run from 150,000 drowned to two million in total.

Terry's of York launched the Chocolate Orange in 1932, a ball of orange-flavored chocolate in 20 whackable segments, which Which? says still reaches around 9 million UK households a year.

Waterfront Bar & Grill in Little Italy. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

A dust storm swept the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles on the afternoon of 14 April 1935, displacing an estimated 300,000 tons of topsoil. It reached Beaver around 4 p.m., Boise City at 5:15 and Amarillo at 7:20.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, then the largest concrete structure ever built.