This Day…

1856  – Republican Party opens its first national convention, party members meet in Philadelphia

1920 – US Post Office says children cannot be sent by parcel post (after various instances).

1947 – Perennial Christmas film “Miracle on 34th St” starring John Payne and Maureen O’Hara, directed by George Seaton is released

1856 – American industrialist and firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt (41) weds American philanthropist Elizabeth Hart Jarvis (29) at Christ Episcopal Church in Middleton, Connecticut, until his death in 1862

1871 – Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000

1922 – Completed Lincoln Memorial dedicated by US Chief Justice William Howard Taft in front of 50,000

1923 – US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

1933  – Walt Disney’s short film “3 Little Pigs” released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934)

1908 – 1st American horror movie silent film “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde” premieres in Chicago

1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanishes in Venice, California She shows up a month later saying she’s been kidnapped