This Day…

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”.

186 – Golden Spike driven, completing the 1st US Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah and connecting the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific.

1937 – German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground.

1923 – 1st nonstop north American transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed.

1859 – Charles Dickens‘ “A Tale Of Two Cities” is first published in literary periodical “All the Year Round” (weekly installments until Nov 26)

1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Lincoln, New Mexico