"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in Europe. The supreme power in America can't enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people is armed, & constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops." Noah Webster1787
Trivia: The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941 over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies.
Canadian inventor, Arthur Sicard invented the snowblower in 1925. The Montreal based inventor sold his first, "Sicard Snow Remover Snowblower" to the nearby town of Outremont in 1927.