Mike the chicken lived for 18 months without a head.
In 1945 a Colorado farmer's axe missed the jugular vein and most of the brain stem. Mike became a celebrity, and his town still holds a Headless Chicken Day.
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- 1944 The US Army had a unit of artists armed with inflatable tanks.
- 1945 The first general-purpose electronic computer weighed 27 tonnes.
- 1945 · 1952 The inventor of the theremin also made one of the first bugs.
- 1946 The bikini is named after an atoll used for atomic bomb tests.