This Day…

1948 – Musician Nat King Cole (29) divorces dancer Nadine Robinson after 11 years of marriage

1831 – 1st US bank robbery, the City Bank in New York robbed of $245,000.

1834 – The first railroad tunnel in the U.S. was completed. The work was in Pennsylvania.

1892 – 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC).

1901 – U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steep Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world’s richest man.

1855 – 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls

1872 – Yellowstone becomes the world’s 1st national park.

1950  – “Your Show of Shows” with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen

1872 – 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio).

1865 – Columbia, South Carolina, burns down during American Civil War