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• December 5 is International Day, a time set DEERE. JOHN DEERE.Ninja (continued): aside to celebrate martial arts skills. just • It was while living in Illinois that This Johnisnotheticed tenththe yearproblems it has been as the holithatrecognized, farmers faced when dayattempting was created in 2003 in conjunction with the to till soil. Because the area had December 5th opening date of Tom Cruise’s film formerly been woodland, the soil was rich Thewith Lasthummus, Samurai,which whichclumped featuredand a battle clungscene to between samurai and ninja. Those observing the the blades of the plows farmers were accusholiday dress like ninjas. cirtomedare to encouraged using. Whiletorepairing a broken cular saw,and Deere stumbled uponcelebrate an idea. HeSt. • Europeans Scandinavians employed hison smith skills to fashion Nicholas Day December 6, and the in steel many blade into the shape of a plow. He countries, it is the primary occasion for affixed gift-givwooden spokes,season. then hitched the device ingtwo during the holiday It commemorates to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil the feast day of this 4th-century Greek Bishop like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened of Myra who had a reputation of giving gifts in to be observing the test run immediately put secret, tucking sweets and coins in shoes and in an order for his own John Deere plow.

boots left on the front doorstep. The Bishop was • Ininspiration short order, gave up his blacksmith the forDeere the North Americans’ Santa shop and focused on making plows. Claus and the British Father Christmas. The company grew steadily and added many em-

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• More than In 2,300 Americans wererelocated killed when ployees. the late 1840s, John the Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamedat Pearl Harbor 7, 1941, of his own on lackDecember of education, John the sent“date his which will live in infamy.” Twelve ships sankofor children to the state’s finest schools. One were including the when U.S.S.son Oklahoma, hisbeached, proudest days occurred Charles which capsized, and the U.S.S. Arizona, which earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s wasCommercial completelyCollege destroyed with a death toll of in Chicago. 1,177. In addition, more than 160the aircraft were • With his son Charles managing company, demolished, with another 150 damaged. Six John found time to pursue philanthropic inJapanese carriers both launched 353Nationfighters, terests.aircraft He co-founded the First bombers, and torpedo al Bank and the First Congregational Church. planes in an attackthe that He was elected mayor of Moline in 1873, began at 7:48 AM and where one of his first actions – the replaceended ment90ofminutes the city’slatopen drains with a sewer er. pipe Thesystem United– saved Statescountless lives by reducentered II ing theWorld spreadWar of disease. on December when • The original8,John Deere logo, registered in Congress declared 1876, depicted a war deer that was native to Afriagainst Japan. Soon af-later, in 1912, it was reca. Thirty-six years terward, placedJapan’s with theallies, image of a North American Germany and white-tailedItaly, deer.deIn the decades that folclared warthe on now-familiar the U.S. lowed, “outline” logo took over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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