Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents flaked cereal

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31 May, 1884

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg files for a patent for his “flaked cereal”. He and his brother W. K. Kellogg, both vegetarians start selling the product which we now know as corn flakes.