From the  Oregonian, 11-14-1920

The IBM Personal Computer, model number 5150, was created by a
team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge
of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida. The initial
price of the first PC was $1,565, about the cost of a decent used car
in those days.

Because the IBM PC was meant to be sold to the general public but
IBM didn’t have any retail stores, they were sold through catalogue
retailer Sears & Roebuck.    

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Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991)

Fender created the famous Fender brand of guitars. He also created the
Music Man and G&L Musical Instruments companies. Before fame he made
money repairing radios as a teenager in California. In 2009 he was awarded
a Technical Grammy Award for his contributions of outstanding significance
to the recording field.

Leo Fender was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 – a
unique achievement given that he never learned to play the instruments
which he made a career of building.

In 2009 he was awarded a Technical Grammy Award for his contributions of
outstanding significance to the recording field.

The annual ceremony honoring achievements in the film industry, The Academy
Awards, was held for the first time on May 16, 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt
Hotel. It was a private dinner with an attendance of about 270 people.

The ceremony lasted only 15 minutes with fifteen statuettes (Oscars) awarded to
artists, directors and other personalities of the movie industry for achievements
during the 1927 to 1928 period. The post awards party was held at the Mayfair
Hotel. The cost of guest tickets for the night was $5.

Emil Jannings received the first Oscar, Best Actor in a Leading
Role for the movies “The Last Command” and The Way of All
Flesh” (1929).

Douglas Fairbanks, the Academy’s first president, and
Janet Gaynor, winner of the Best Actress award.

John Wayne accepts the Best Director Oscar on behalf of an absent John
Ford during the 25th Academy Awards in 1953. It was the first time the
ceremony was televised.

Workers of the UAW pictured during the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937

Workers used the technique of the sit-down strike since the beginning of the 20th 
century, not only in the United States, but also in Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, and
France. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were the first American union 
to use the sit-down strike. On December 10, 1906, at the General Electric Workers 
in Schenectady, New York, 3,000 workers sat down on the job and stopped plant 
production to protest the dismissal of three fellow IWW members.

The United Auto Workers staged successful sit-down strikes in the 1930s, best
remembered is the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937. The U.S. Supreme Court 
outlawed sit-down strikes on February 27, 1939.

1935

Form letter that non-striking GM workers mailed to President Roosevelt in 1937