1908 – Marquis Mills Converse opens the doors of the Converse Rubber Shoe Company.
1915 – Converse canvas tennis shoe business climbs
1917 – World’s first performance basketball sneaker
1921 – Chuck Taylor joins Converse, improves the All Star shoe’s traction and ankle support, becomes America’s first player endorser, and publishes the first of 60 years of the Converse Basketball Yearbook
1935 – World famous champion badminton player Jack Purcell designs an innovative and durable performance court shoe, with its telltale toe Smile
1942 – Fully committed to support the war effort, Converse shifts its sports production and designs the innovative A6 Flying Boot, which the entire U.S. Army Air Corps wears
1974 – Converse debuts the “One Star,” a low-cut performance shoe for basketball