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The Hummer family is born

The wide, rugged Humvee gained fame when it was used by U.S. military personnel during the 1989 invasion of Panama and the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s. (BLOOMBERG)
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Jack Walsworth
March 22, 2016 05:00 AM
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AM General receives a contract from the Pentagon to develop the high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle, or HMMWV, on March 22, 1983.

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