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1908: Marquis Mills Converse founds the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in Malden, MA.
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1917: The world’s first performance basketball shoe, Converse All Star sneaker, comes off factory lines.
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1921 -- Taylor pitches some ideas on improving the shoes to Converse.
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1939 -- Taylor's shoes make it on both teams in the NCAA basketball championship games
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1966 -- Leaping from black and white to living color, Converse introduces seven new All Star hues.
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2005 -- Converse launches the Dwyane Wade shoe, its first signature basketball shoe since the Chuckies debuted
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2009: Exclusive CONS skateboarding footwear line debuts globally with skate ambassador team including Sammy Baca, Ethan Fowler, Rune Glifberg, Raymond Molinar, Anthony Pappalardo and Nick Trapasso.
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1992 -- More than 500 million pairs of All Star sneakers have been sold by the shoe's 75th anniversary.
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2008 -- Converse celebrates its 100th anniversary.
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2010: Converse opens second and largest US retail specialty shop in Manhattan, opening just weeks after the company’s launch of their first-ever specialty retail store in the Newbury Street neighborhood of Boston, Mass. Converse renews its relationship with Julius “Dr. J”