This Day…

1903 – Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers.

1933 – Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam

1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada

1965 – “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, the first Peanuts animated special premieres on CBS in the US

On December 7, 1941 – Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl HarborExternal, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. A total of twelve ships sank or were beached in the attack and nine additional vessels were damaged. More than 160 aircraft were destroyed and more than 150 others damaged.

1922 – Lucille Atcherson, becomes first woman legation sect-US foreign service

1847 – Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper “North Star”

1934 – The U.S. bank robber George “Baby Face” Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, IL.

1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife’s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.