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Shoe
2000 Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist, Shoe, dies at 52

1969 Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series

1969 Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US

1965 John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67

1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)

1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM U.S.S.R.) bangs his shoe on table at UN

1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly

1947 Jeff MacNelly, Puliter Prize-winning cartoonist, Shoe

1947 Tennis shoe introduced

1946 "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater New York City after 20 performances

1946 "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater New York City for 20 performances

1945 U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing

1943 Shoe rationing begins in U.S. (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)

1937 Stephen Rubin, English attorney/shoe manufacturer, Reebok, Adidas

1931 Imelda Marcos, politician/shoe collector/1st lady of Philippines

1922 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue New York City

1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster

1898 Jan Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer

1889 Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies

1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine

1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine

1852 Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor, shoe lacing machine



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