This Day…

1851 – Yosemite Valley discovery made public by Major James D. Savage and Captain John Boling after being shown by Indian guides in California

1806 – Explorers Lewis and Clark begin their journey home from the Pacific Ocean

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is published in Boston

1869 – US Abolitionist Harriet Tubman marries civil war veteran Nelson Davis in Auburn NY

1937 – First American blood bank in a hospital is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois

1956 – “The Searchers” American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood is released

1881 – Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson begin their 1st case together in “A Study in Scarlet”

1863 – Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act, establishes single national US currency

1866 – Lucy B. Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree

1878  – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his cylinder phonograph