And now for a mundane and pointless poll.
Anything important ever happen in your town? If you told someone where you live, will they say “oh yea, that’s where ____ happened”? If tourists come to your town, will they be told this is where ____ event took place? Semi famous births, deaths, inventions or any other thing counts. Feel free to claim events from surrounding areas if your town is boringville.
At the moment, I’m drawing a blank on famous events in my own town.
Er…drunk teenagers?
May I introduce you to Rosa L. Parks?
My old town, Accrington (where I grew up) is famous (if it is famous for anything at all) for being the home of the strongest house-brick in the world ‘Nori’.
It is famous for it’s football team - Accrington Stanley.
My new town, Douglas, Is probably famous for many things. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any (other than it contains the start/finish line for a world-famous motorbike race/festival)
My home town, Kilburn in north west London, used to be famous for its very large Irish population.
The late, great Screaming Lord Sutch, the longest serving political leader in Great Britain, was a Kilburn man, born just off Salusbury Road. He was the founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party in 1963 and led it until his death (by suicide) in 1999.
He was also a bit of a pop singer, deriving his stage name from Screaming Jay Hawkins (his real name was just plain David Sutch).
We have quite a umber of them here, too.
The Dorsey Brothers were born here, and we’re home to Mrs. T’s Pierogie Headquarters! 
A fire at the tire dump.
Steel strikes (where I live now)
Chattanooga Choo-Choo (where I grew up).
Not much.
Although it is an obscure fact rather than really famous, Saarbrücken was the capital of the autonomous Saarland from 1945 through 1956.
The city where I lived a bit over a year ago, Karlsruhe, is the home of the German Constitutional Court and the highest regular court. It is one of the very few planned cities in Germany. At its university - my former alma mater - Heinrich Hertz did his work on electromagnetic waves.
hometown: 400 serial murders
Site of the last public hanging in the U.S.
Birthplace of Johnny Depp.
Errol Flynn leaped through the trees of our town park during the filming of Robin Hood.
We have a real live tree-lined boulevard, recently featured in a coffee-table book about 6 similarly-endowed towns.
We have an official Party School college, hooray. Halloween and Labor Day and St. Patrick’s Day have been big draws.
The Yo-yo Museum, the only one just for yo-yos, is here. Every year we have a big yo-yo competition, and sometimes the world’s biggest yo-yo is dropped from a 100’ tower.
Part of the Cohen brothers movie “Fargo” was shot in my home town. The scene where the 2 young hookers are talking to Mcdormat (sp?) in the bar.
Mary Beth Whitehead and the whole Baby M deal went down in my town.
I was also going to say that Kirsten Dunst was born here, but several dozen sites cite her as being born one town over. Ah well…another bit 'o ignorance fought.
The town I grew up in is famous for having the only natural climbable rock formations between the Rockies and the Appalachians (or something like that). It is also on the Grand River, hence the name…
Grand Ledge.
Susan Anton.
And me, of course! 
Invention of the airplane/Wright brothers stuff in general
Current city: Apple capital of Minnesota.
Home town: Oldest land deed in Wisconsin. Also since it had its own hydroelectric plant it had very low electric rates. Also VERY hard water (but from artesian wells). It has one of the very few vertical lift bridges. Also has a semifamous cheese spread factory (cold pack process invented there) named after the city but I’m not sure it is technically in the city. Also one of the few combined pulp and paper plants around.
College: Home of the world’s largest “M”, 1st state normal school.
Brian
Graceland, home of Elvis Presley. The assasanation of Dr. Martin Luther King 
,and the Barbecue capitol of the world 
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I live near Nashville, home of country music, and near Murfreesboro, home of the civil war Battle of Murfreesboro.
StG