1874
Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
Genius!
1916
Norman Rockwell’s first cover on The Saturday Evening Post appeared.
1927
Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.
He would achieve the world’s first non-stop transatlantic flight.
The trip took 33 1/2 hours.
1932
Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
She became the first woman to achieve the feat!
1978
53 year-old Mavis Hutchinson made it to New York City to become the first woman to run across America.
The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.
Reminds me of this:
and then lastly…
1993
The final episode of Cheers was aired on NBC!
-Tyler Jackson
