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Partial list of events that have affected autograph collecting

• 1800s:
• Early in the 20th century: The Autopen, a fake autograph producing machine, is invented.
• 1920s: The Big Five of sports, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth emerge. Dempsey and Ruth in particular are considered by autograph experts to have been great signers and to have helped popularize getting autographs at baseball parks and boxing gyms.
• 1940s: United States President Harry Truman allegedly becomes the first President to use the Autopen machine to answer mail autograph requests.
• 1950sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Years: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb.: A young Cassius ClayOther people with this name: Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Mehemet Ali (Turkey Muhammad Ali-Haj (born January 17, 1942 as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. is an American boxer. He was one of the world's greatest heavyweight boxers, as well as one of the world's most f is allegedly denied an autograph by Sugar Ray RobinsonWalker Smith Jr. May 3, 1921 April 12, 1989), better known in the boxing world as Sugar Ray Robinson was a boxer who was a native of Detroit, Michigan. Robinson is the holder of many boxing records, including the one for the most times being a champion in and swears never to deny anyone an autograph if he ever becomes famous.
• 1963Events January-March January 11 The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 Elysee treaty between France and Germany January 28 Black student Harvey: President John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy ( May 29, 1917 November 22, 1963), often referred to as Jack Kennedy or JFK was the 35th ( 1961 1963) President of the United States. He was the youngest ever to be elected president and the youngest president ever to die in office murdered in DallasDallas redirects here. For other uses see Dallas (disambiguation Dallas is one of the ten largest cities in the United States and the heart of the largest metropolitan area in Texas. It is the county seat of Dallas County and small portions of the city al. As a consequence, Presidential visits are much more closely followed by police and secret service men since.
• 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends: The killing of John LennonJohn Winston Ono Lennon ( October 9, 1940 December 8, 1980), is best known as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Beatles. His creative career also included the roles of solo musician, political activist, artist and author. As half of the legendar as well as attacks against Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II affect the hobby: entertainers and political figures rebuff their security detail after these incidents. The autograph collecting boom era begins.
• 1993: Monica Seles is stabbed in Germany, raising security levels at worldwide sports events.
• 1997: Publication of Autograph Collector Magazine begins.
• Late 1990s: The FBI announces the arrest of different members of a fake autograph dealer ring that was based in California and had operations in many other states.
• 2000s: It becomes of public knowledge that such stars as Michael Jackson and Eminem use decoys when in public, to avoid having the public come up to them for autographs and photos.
• 2001: The September 11 terrorist attacks make airport security levels raise, making it difficult for general public to ask stars for autographs at airports.
• 2003: Television show Celebrities Uncensored debuts, showing entertainers as they act in public unaware that they are being filmed, and giving autograph collectors an insight of who likes to sign autographs in person and who doesn't. An internet website announces it is selling the copy of the Double Fantasy album that John Lennon autographed for his killer, Mark David Chapman, for $530,000 dollars. The former Miss Venezuela, Verushka Ramirez , is kidnapped and released only after autographing 15 calendars for her captors.
• 2004: Mexican singer Yahir enters the Guinness Book of World Records by signing 2,850 autographs in one show, signing without stopping for eight hours and fifteen minutes. Pamela Anderson goes on a nationwide tour across the United States, to promote and sign her book, Star . A letter signed by John Wilkes Booth, alleged killer of Abraham Lincoln, sells for 1,000 dollars at a Boston, Massachusetts auction.