and the rest is history

[Jonathan Lighter]

My feeling is that this cliche' is most common in sports reporting.  Barry's 1872 sounds like it's from a prizefighting account.  Is it ?

  JL
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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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