I felt I needed to make up for the erroneous death announcement of Alfred Hitchcock in the first This Day In History posting today, so here's a bonus posting...
On April 19th, 1955 Volkswagen of America, Inc. was established in Engelwood, New Jersey, as a sales division for the German car company. 1955 was a banner year for Volkswagen as the company produced its 1,000,000th car and exceeded, for the first time, the production benchmark of 1,000 cars per day on average.
By the mid-1960s, the VW Bug had almost single-handedly ended the years of "virtual monopoly" that Detroit manufacturers had previously enjoyed.
I was just thinking about it and I don't think I have ever been inside a WW bug...... probably has something to do with my morbid obesity.
Are you sure it wasn't 1956???
I double checked, ya bastard.