1836 African American inventor, Henry Blair of Maryland, received a patent for a cotton seed planter.

1900 Sir John Bennet Lawes died (born Dec 28, 1814).  An English agronomist, he founded the artificial fertilizer industry. Together with Sir Joseph Gilbert, they conducted agricultural experiments at Rothamsted Experimental Station, the oldest agricultural research station in the world. They are considered the founding fathers of agricultural sciences.

1900 Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time in Britain in a restaurant in Spence's department store in London.

1921 The first successful demonstration of aerial crop dusting was performed in Ohio by Lt. John A. Macready. He was flying a Curtiss JN-6H (Jenny).

1960 The [National Agricultural Center & Hall of Fame] established.

1993 Canada orders a complete ban on cod fishing after stocks dwindle.

1995 The summer was so hot in Missouri, that at the end of August, methane gas emitted within large bales of freshly-cut hay began to spontaneously combust.