2012 Event Customers of online shoe retailer Zappos must change their passwords after Zappos reports hackers accessed up to 24 million customer accounts 2000 Death Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist, Shoe, dies at 52 1969 Event Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a home run in World Series 1969 Event Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US 1965 Death John Bata, Czechoslovakian shoe manufacturer, dies at 67 1961 Event Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...) 1960 Event Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly 1947 Birthday Jeff MacNelly, Puliter Prize-winning cartoonist, Shoe 1947 Event Tennis shoe introduced 1946 Event "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater New York City after 20 performances 1946 Event "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater New York City for 20 performances 1945 Event U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing 1943 Event Shoe rationing begins in U.S. (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942) 1937 Birthday Stephen Rubin, English attorney/shoe manufacturer, Reebok, Adidas 1931 Birthday Imelda Marcos, politician/shoe collector/1st lady of Philippines 1922 Event 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue New York City 1921 Event Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster 1898 Birthday Jan Bata, Czechoslovakian shoe manufacturer 1889 Death Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies 1885 Event John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine 1858 Event Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine 1852 Birthday Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor, shoe lacing machine
