This Day, That Year – April 17

Lewis M. Norton patented pineapple cheese on this day in 1810.

Did you know that:

• Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to record his discovery of the New York Harbor on this day in 1524
• Elmer K. Bolton invented neoprene using Julius Nieuwland’s divinyl acetylene on this day in 1930
• Ford Mustang was formally introduced on this day in 1964