Astronauts in outer space receive carbonated beverages in cans for the first time.
Multi-packs for beverage cans are introduced.
Bill Coors' engineers revealed the first seamless recyclable aluminum can in 1959, and later a program called Cash for Cans offering a penny for each can or glass bottle returned for recycling.
Ezra J. Warner (Waterbury, Connecticut) patents the first can opener! This was used heavily by the US military during the civil war.
John Hall and Bryan Dorkin opened the first commercial canning factory in England.
