and the rest is history

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

No one answered this query for almost two days (and no one checked the  OED),
I look quickly on Newspaperarchive before going to dinner, come back from
dinner and someone responds immediately that I screwed up. Great.
...
Here's slightly earlier.
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     _The  Titusville Morning Herald_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=Z8Lm5Wnx+nuKID/6NLMW2kX6pW2rhCtSZCCX3E3NmOOUNB3I6gXroA==)
_Wednesday,  January 24, 1872_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="rest+is+history"+AND+date:1872-01-24)  _Titusville,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="rest+is+history"+AND+cityid:29279+AND+stateid:77+AND+r
ange:1759-1907)   _Pennsylvania_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="rest+is+history"+AND+stateid:77+AND+range:1759-1907)   ...... and the
 REST IS hIStory. In three short years be had fought  somo of tha moct
tremendous ...  ..

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