
1969 – Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.

1969 – Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.
1849 – Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
1954 – WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), in New York, broadcast the first local color television commercials. The ad was Castro Decorators of New York City

“Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.” – Callahan’s Law
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1905 – In Russia, it was reported that the peasant revolt was spreading to Georgia.
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