This Day…

1929 – Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures.

1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.

1789 – James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives

1860 – Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco.

1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland (49) weds Frances Folsom (21), 1st presidential marriage to be held at the White House.

1911 – RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.

1864 – Territory of Montana formed.

1915 – Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations.

1958 – “South Pacific” soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks.

1923 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter for “One of Ours”.