This Day…

1920 – 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US

1903 – Women ushers were employed for the first time at the Majestic Theatre in New York City.

1924 France — Ladies Fashion   The most recent trend in women’s fashion is to make clothes out of the hides of African animals. The latest find in Paris is to weave into women’s costumes just as many trophies of the jungle as the ingenious dress designers, milliners, and shoe and glove makers can find ways of doing.

1878 – Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing the “St. Louis Post-Dispatch”.

1907 – Christmas Seals went on sale for the first time, in the Wilmington, DE, post office.

1941 – Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people

1933 – Prohibition ends in the US when 21st Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, 18th Amendment repealed (5:32 PM EST).

1867 -Charles Dickens gave his first public reading. Taking place at a New York City theater, Charles Dickens gave his first reading of a six-month American book tour.

1902 – American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang Kid Curry Logan sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.

1919 – American-born Lady Astor was elected the first female member of the British Parliament.