This Day…

1865 – “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is published in America.

1880 – Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut in New York City.

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

1872 – Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting.

1952 – In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.

1889 – New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.

1938 – Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on network radio.

1888 – Jack Ripper’s 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed.

1904 – George M. Cohan‘s 1st full-length musical “Little Johnny Jones”, featuring the songs “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Give My Regards To Broadway”, opens at the Liberty Theatre, NYC; runs for 52 performances be before going on tour.

1912 – Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage