This Day…

1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War

1903 – Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam

1878 – US Senate proposes female suffrage

1838 – Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey

1888 – The drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone.

1835 – Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River

1928 – Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC

1939 Gone With The Wind Premiers

Gone With The Wind Premiers in Atlanta, Georgia. The movie adapted from the novel by Margaret Mitchell published in 1936. The movie, starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel set in the deep south tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint.

1962 – David Lean‘s film “Lawrence of Arabia”, based on life of T. E. Lawrence and starring Peter O’Toole, premieres at Odeon Leicester Square (Academy Awards Best Picture 1963)

1938 – Actress Bette Davis (30) divorces musician Harmon Nelson (31) due to cruel and inhuman manner after more than 6 years of marriage