This Day…

1831 – 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina

1861 – A Union merchant ship, the Star of the West, is fired upon as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina

1953 – US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb

1949 – US President Harry Truman labels his administration the “Fair Deal”

1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government

1896 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays

1932 – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers‘ 1st joint movie “Flying Down to Rio”, directed by Thornton Freeland, premieres in NYC

1947  – 1st “Howdy Doody Show” (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC

1937“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles

1917  – The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing prohibition of alcohol, is approved by the US congress and sent to the states for ratification