ON THIS DAY

On this date in 1506, Christopher Columbus died in Spain... in Poverty, a small suburb of Madrid.

In 1639, the Massachusetts town of Dorchester opened the first public school. Until that time, parents had no one to blame for how their kids turned out.

On this date in 1874, Levi Strauss started selling his blue jeans with copper rivets. The price: $13.50 a dozen. Up until that time, when it was Jeans Day at work, no one had anything to wear. Let's see, doing the math, that's less than a dollar a leg.

In 1892, George Sampson patented the clothes dryer.

• Of course, the first couple of years of the new invention, there were some wrinkles.
• Until then, we had absolutely no way to get dryer lint.
• Being a diesel, it didn't quite leave your clothes smelling Spring-time fresh.
• It was the year that lint came after Easter.

On this date in 1926, Thomas Edison boldly predicted that Americans would always like silent movies better than talking pictures. Eventually, he was left speechless and movies weren't.

In 1970, the Beatles' last movie, "Let it Be" hit movie theaters. It was the follow up to their less successful effort, "Let it A".