This Day…

1912 – RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage

1893 – The Critic reports that ice cream soda is America’s national drink

1887 – Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling “water” in the manual alphabet.

1860 – The Pony Express mail delivery system, which used continuous horse-and-rider relays along a 1,800-mile (2,900-km) route between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, was launched in the United States.

1930 – “The Blue Angel” starring Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role premieres in Germany

1915 – American domestic Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was placed under a quarantine on North Brother Island, New York City, that lasted until her death in 1938; a typhoid carrier, she was allegedly responsible for multiple outbreaks of typhoid fever.

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