This Day…

1941 – American actress Doris Day (19) weds trombonist Albert Jorden

1865 – US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington; he dies a day later

1926 – Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film as director “The Pleasure Garden”, in England; the silent drama was made in Germany.

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

1889 – George Eastman begins selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time

1860 – Pony Express began between St Joseph, Missouri & Sacramento, California

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

1894 – George Bernard Shaw‘s comedy play “Candida” premieres at Theatre Royal, South Shields, England

1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid

1955 – Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” debuted on Broadway.