This Day…

1886 – Sherlock Holmes’s first story “A Study in Scarlet” is accepted by publisher Ward and Lock with payment of £25

1889 – Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & San Francisco

1935 – “A Night at the Opera”, directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released

1934 – American actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (23) weds “All Quiet on the Western Front” actor Lew Ayres (25); divorce in 1940

1917 – 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House

1932 – Amidst the Great Depression, Democrat candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover

1906 – Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Governor beating William Randolph Hearst

1917 – 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce

1921 – Eugene O’Neill’s play “Anna Christie” premieres in NYC

1866 – Jesse James‘ gang robs bank in Lexington, Missouri ($2000)