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.

1890 – Edison lab records the 1st surviving motion picture, “Monkeyshines No. 1”, shot by William am Kennedy Dickson and William Heise [date disputed between June 1889 and November 21–27, 1890]