This Day…

1966 – “Batman”, starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC

1949  – 1st Jewish family show “Goldbergs” premieres on CBS

1894  – William Kennedy Dickson captures “Fred Ott’s Sneeze” as a motion picture at Thomas Edison‘s Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey

1961 – Mister Ed, the TV series about the talking horse, began airing in syndication.

1860 – Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for eight years on the Underground Railroad

1932 – “The Mummy,” directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, is released in the US as the first Mummy horror film

1898 – Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium

1917  – The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing prohibition of alcohol, is approved by the US congress and sent to the states for ratification [1]

1874  – 1st reigning king to visit US is the King of Hawaii, received by President Grant

1913  – Iconic painting the “Mona Lisa” is recovered two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris