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TODAY IN HISTORY Today’s Highlight in History: On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. The Amistad, ruled 7-1 in favor of a group of illegally enslaved Africans who were captured off the U.S. coast after seizing control of a Spanish schooner, La Amistad; the justices ruled that the Africans should be set free. On this date: In 1933, Congress, called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, began its “hundred days” of enacting New Deal legislation. In ...

Barbies sales are booming. Has the doll shed her controversial past? Read full article Some of Barbies earliest dolls. (Photo: Ian Waldie/Getty Images) Barbie, though you’d never guess it by looking at her, turns 62 this month. First introduced to the world on March 9, 1959 at the American Toy Fair in New York City, the plastic icon stands only 11.5 inches tall but her celebrity is about as big as it gets. According to her parent company, Mattel, Barbie has over 99 percent brand awareness glo...

Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 9, the 68th day of 2021. There are 297 days left in the year. Todayís Highlight in History: On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. The Amistad, ruled 7-1 in favor of a group of illegally enslaved Africans who were captured off the U.S. coast after seizing control of a Spanish schooner, La Amistad; the justices ruled that the Africans should be set free. On this date: In 1916, more than 400 Mexican raiders led by Pancho Vill...

Rumors of Barbie’s death were greatly exaggerated. On March 8, 2014, the day before the doll’s 55th birthday, a [Daily Beast article](The Death of Barbie (thedailybeast.com) opined that the doll’s days were numbered due to declining sales. The Forward responded with mixed feelings for the Mattel toy, who, befitting her origins, meant a lot to Jewish women. Barbie had her coming out on March 9, 1959 — henceforth National Barbie Day — when she appeared at the New York Toy Fair. She was ...

Just in time for International Women's Day, Mattel adds former First Lady and U.N. spokesperson Eleanor Roosevelt to Barbie's Inspiring Women Collection

LOGIN History to Expand ‘That Built’ Franchise With 3 More Spinoffs, Rebrands ‘The Men Who Built America’ But still no female subjects (yet) on miniseries now called “The Titans That Built America”Tony Maglio | March 3, 2021 @ 1:00 PM History Channel The History Channel is building out its popular “That Built” franchise with three more spinoffs: “The Machines That Built America,” “The Toys That Built America” and “The Engineering That Built the World.” I...

Barbie This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Barbie sales have soared in the pandemic, its worldwide gross billings up 19% in the fourth quarter. The results reversed a years-long slump in sales. They also followed the brands efforts to diversify its product and marketing. When the world went into lockdown in March 2020, Roshni Mahtani Cheung worried about the psychol...

The world's most famous doll was first introduced in 1959, by a southern California toy company called Mattel, Inc. Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband Elliot, spearheaded the introduction of the doll all those years ago, and just how Barbie looks so good in her sixties is simply another one of her fitness secrets we’ll never know. As it turns out, there's a lot of things you probably don't know about the "ultimate American girl"—like her full name, or ...

22 December 2020 Share with: Margot Robbie has hinted that her Barbie movie will be very different to what anyone expects. The 30-year-old actress has long been attached to play the iconic toy in a live-action movie and has vowed to give audiences "something totally different" to what they would expect from the famous Mattel doll, revealing that she and her LuckyChap Entertainment Company love doing things "a little left of center". Margot told The Hollywood Reporter: "Something like Barbie whe...

135 shares Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig and her partner Noah Baumbach have signed on to write the script in a movie that is a more dystopian take on the historically perfect doll.  The films plot centers on Barbie being expelled from Barbie Land for failing to live up to the expectations of its residents.  Barbie Land: The films plot centers around the Bombshell actress getting expelled from Barbie land as Robbies producing partner McNamara said Baumbach and Gerwig have subverted the movie...