Fascinating Ohio

June 30, 1973 - Engineer Robert Lange admires his nephew's coasting car in Boulder, Colo. Lange conceals an electric magnet in the nose to give it an edge in the upcoming International Soap Box Derby race in Akron. Lange's device attracts the car to the steel paddle starter, and the car blows away the competition. But when X-rays reveal the gadget, the victory cup goes to another, and Boulder is forever banned from future races.
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Gov. Bob Taft

June 29, 2004 – Ohio Gov. Bob Taft of Cincinnati likes to golf - even with lobbyists - and it comes back to haunt him as he fails to report numerous rounds as gifts. He didn't report a Teddy Bear from the Meigs County Commissioners, either. Taft pleads no contest to misdemeanor charges for not disclosing gifts and becomes the first governor charged with a crime while in office.
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Deadliest tornado

June 28, 1924 – The deadliest tornado in Ohio history tears through Lorain and Sandusky, killing 85. It formed on Lake Erie and its 25-mile path of destruction leveled 500 homes and damaged 1,000 others.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 27, 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Mormon Church, also known as The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, leaves his temple at Kirtland, Ohio, for Carthage, Ill., where an angry and fearful mob would gather and kill him.
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Teflon

June 26, 1910 - Roy G. Plunkett is born in New Carlisle. He would graduate with a Phd from Ohio State University in 1936 and two years later, while working for DuPont, he creates a substance by accident that does not stick to the sides of the container holding it. Teflon is born.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 25, 1876 – Buckeye native George Armstrong Custer of New Rumley would become a brigadier general at the age of 23. He and his two rowdy brothers, Thomas and Boston, die on this day at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 24, 1915 - More than 140 animal effigy pipes of turtles, beavers, bobcats, owls and hawks are excavated and shipped to the British Museum from the Tremper Mound, a Hopewell site at Ohio 73 and Ohio 104 north of Portsmouth.
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