1940 CE: CHARLES SCHULZ’S CARTOONS ARE REJECTED

…by his high school yearbook.

Central High School of St. Paul, Minnesota, may not have appreciated him, but ten years later, in 1950, Schulz’s syndicated comic strip Peanuts would commence a 50–year uninterrupted run.

Peanuts would appear in over 2,600 newspapers spanning 75 countries.