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• Henry Ford II unveiled the company’s brand-new sports car, the Ford Mustang, at the New York City World’s Fair on April 17, 1964. The car made its debut at dealerships across the country on the same day, experiencing sales of nearly 22,000 cars. By the end of the ﬁrst year of production, 400,000 Mustangs had been sold. Did you know that the Mustang took its name from a World War II plane, a ﬁghter that cost about $51,000 to build at that time?

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• The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 when, under General P.G.T. Beauregard’s orders, Confederate forces opened ﬁre on the Union’s Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Bay. The war continued for just shy of four years, ending on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. • Slow down! That’s what the state of Connecticut said when they became the ﬁrst state to pass a speed limit law on May 21, 1901. The new regulation restricted motor vehicles to 12 mph (19.3 km/hr) in the city and 15 mph 24 (km/hr) on country roads.

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• Earth Day was ﬁrst observed in April of 1970, with 20 million participants. It was the brainstorm of U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who came up with the idea after touring a disastrous oil spill in the Santa Barbara, California area. In his words, “It had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country.” • April 19, 1897 marked the ﬁrst running of the Boston Marathon, with 15 runners at the starting line. John J. McDermott, representing the Pastime Athletic Club of New York City, was the inaugural winner with a time of 2:55:10, nearly seven minutes ahead of the next competitor. The men’s record, set in 2011, is 2:03:02, while the best women’s time is 2:19:59, a record achieved in 2014. • “The Wedding of the Century” took place on April 18, 1956 when actress Grace Kelly married Monaco’s Prince Rainier III. Thirty-six seamstresses worked on 26-yearold Kelly’s wedding dress for six weeks in preparation for the nuptials. After meeting at the Cannes Film Festival, the pair corresponded for eight months before Rainier traveled to America to meet her family, proposing to Grace three days later. Before the marriage plans could proceed, the family was required to provide a $2 million dowry. Following the ceremony attended by 600 guests, the royal couple departed for their seven-week Mediterranean honeymoon cruise aboard the prince’s yacht. • The month of April has had its share of tragedies. In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by Timothy McVeigh. In 1999, Colorado’s Columbine High School shootings occurred. It was also the month of the assassinations of President Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. The sinking of the Titanic, the devastating nuclear accident at the

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UNDERDOG IS HERE Many comic book, movie and TV heroes are so popular that they inspire hundreds of different collectibles. Often, interest in the characters dies about 25 years after the last new episode of their shows are shown. Some have continued to be popular because of TV reruns and their rebirth in new movies, comics or even plays. "Underdog" was one of the characters created in 1959 for television cartoons selling General Mills cereal. He formerly was Shoeshine Boy, who went into a phone booth to take a pill that turned him into the superpowered Underdog. He always damaged the booth and spoke in rhymes. In 1969, the show lost its sponsor, but 62 shows continued in syndication. They can be seen on TV, and other syndicated shows with Underdog as the hero were edited, rewritten and re-bundled to remain on TV until the late 1990s.

A: Your silver-plated flatware is not as old as you think it is. The pattern name is Lady Betty and was introduced by International Silver Co. of Meriden, Connecticut, in 1940. The company was formed when some independent silver makers merged in 1898. Silver plating by electricity began (in the U.S.) in 1847, earlier in England. By the 1880s, more than 40 firms, mostly centered near Meriden, made simple to elaborate silver-plated tableware until the 1980s. Silver-plated items generally have a modest value unless they are either very fancy or very rare. Your flatware is not worth much -- under $100 -- and places that buy silver to melt are looking for sterling silver, not silver plate.

Many years on the air have helped "Underdog" collectibles remain popular ... and expensive. A 1974 child's metal "Underdog" lunchbox and thermos sold at a Hakes. com auction in fall 2015 for $2,296. Other undiscovered "Underdog" memorabilia still is waiting in garage sales and ﬂea markets, usually without the history that gives it value.

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