This Day…

1953 – US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb

1949 – US President Harry Truman labels his administration the “Fair Deal”

1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government

1896 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays

1932 – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers‘ 1st joint movie “Flying Down to Rio”, directed by Thornton Freeland, premieres in NYC

1947  – 1st “Howdy Doody Show” (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC

1937“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles

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

1939 – “Gone With The Wind”, drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premieres in Atlanta (Best Picture 1940, inflation not adjusted highest-grossing film of all time)

1928 George Gershwin‘s – “An American In Paris” symphonic poem premieres at Carnegie Hall, NYC, performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Walter Damrosch