Editor: Here are a couple of cocoa-centric recipes to get your started: 1  Chocolate Layer Cake. 2  How to Make Homemade Nutella. 3  How To Make the Easiest Chocolate Fudge.
1862: The first one-dollar bill was issued as a Legal Tender Note (United States Note) with a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln.
William Durant creates General Motors. On September 16, 1908, Buick Motor Company head William Crapo Durant spends $2,000 to incorporate General Motors in New Jersey. Durant, a high-school dropout, had made his fortune building horse-drawn carriages, and in fact he hated carsâhe thought they were noisy, smelly, and dangerous.