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Old 02-15-2019, 08:57 AM   #141
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On this day in 1903, toy store owner and inventor Morris Michtom places two stuffed bears in his shop window, advertising them as Teddy bears. Michtom had earlier petitioned President Theodore Roosevelt for permission to use his nickname, Teddy. The president agreed and, before long, other toy manufacturers began turning out copies of Michtom's stuffed bears, which soon became a national childhood institution.

(and that my friends, is how our very own Teddybear came to be!)
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2/15/1933 - U.S. President-elect Franklin Roosevelt escaped an assination attempt in Miami. Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in the attack.
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Strongly supported by western mining interests and farmers, the Bland-Allison Act, which provided for a return to the minting of silver coins, becomes the law of the land.
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Feb 16, 1864 Martha Edgerton, the wife of Sidney Edgerton wrote to her family back in Ohio. "As for suffering with the cold, I never knew such extremely cold weather as we had the first week of January, but we managed to keep comfortable. The mercury in the thermometers after going forty degrees below zero froze in the bulb. I was so afraid the children would freeze their noses or ears in the night that I got up a number of times to see that their heads were covered. Their beds would be covered with frost." The Edgerton home at Bannack.
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2/17/1933 - Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead three years after Chic Young?s popular strip first debuted.
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Feb 17, 1865 Fort Buchanan is overrun and destroyed by Chiricahua warriors in the Arizona Territory.
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On this day in 1972, the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle comes off the assembly line, breaking a world car production record held for more than four decades by the Ford Motor Company's iconic Model T, which was in production from 1908 and 1927.
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Feb 18, 1886 Dave Rudabaugh, a former member of Billy the Kid's Dodge City Gang, is reportedly captured and decapitated by townspeople after terrorizing the village of Parral, Mexico.
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On this day in 1885, Mark Twain publishes his famous, and famously controversial, novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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2/18/2001 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the Daytona 500 race.
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