and the rest is history

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"Rip Van Winkle" is an old joke.
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"And the rest is history" seems to have been used from the early  1930s.
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     _The  Port Arthur News_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=++xTpPwvmwuKID/6NLMW2sXJN849PrGBS6949CIbab4sVPOki9NkbUIF+CsZYmrz)  _Sunday,
July 05, 1931_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="and+the+rest+is+history"+AND+date:1931-07-05)  _Port  Arthur,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="and+the+rest+is+history"+AND+cityid:23362+AND+state
id:94+AND+range:1759-1956)  _Texas_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="and+the+rest+is+history"+AND+stateid:94+AND+range:1759-1956)
...Hall At last  yielded AND bought THE Winnie Mae. AND THE  REST IS hIStory. 4ER
HUMORS DIES ...  ..
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     _The Van Wert Daily Bulletin_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=Z1F8QY91aICKID/6NLMW2gxWf3jVN0+H/Gp324MyjIdARZLAjTquzkIF+CsZYmrz)
_Wednesday,  May 31, 1933_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="and+the+rest+is+history"+AND+date:1933-05-31)  _Van  Wert,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="and+the+rest+is+history"+AND+cityid:31104+AND+
stateid:73+AND+range:1759-1956)  _Ohio_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="and+the+rest+is+history"+AND+stateid:73+AND+range:1759-1956)
...THE  blondes hung on THEir AND THE REST IS  HIStory. BERT WHEELER, ROBERT
WOOLSEY in a ...  ..
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The world hung on their words. The blondes hung on their necks. ... And the
Rest Is History.
_"DIPLOMANIACS"_
Musical Comedy Revue in Technicolor
M G M Novelty

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