CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
Chicago entrepreneur Donald F. Duncan bought the rights to the word "yo-yo" and joined forces with newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst to get newsboys pushing the toy.
Release In Idaho Falls, Idaho, Eldon Cleverly was sentenced to jail for attempted rape. His pregnant wife promptly went to Boise, paraded through the State…
June 6 is National Yo-yo Day. It’s called that because it’s the birthday of a man named Donald F. Duncan Sr. (Sr. stands for Senior.) More about him in a bit.In the early 1960s, yo-yos were one of the hottest-selling toys in America. How many were sold? In 1962 in the United States, there were […]