In History – Barbie goes on sale 56 years ago

TODAY IN HISTORY - February 13th:

1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared president in Washington DC
1866 - Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
1895 - Moving picture projector patented
1959 - Barbie doll goes on sale

2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1923 - Chuck Yeagar, US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
1944 - Jerry Springer, talk show host (Jerry Springer Show), born in London, England
1944 - Stockard Channing, actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace), born in NYC, New York

GOODBYE TO:

2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
2014 - Ralph Waite, White Plains NY, American actor, director and political candidate (John Walton Snr. in The Waltons)

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