This Day…

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”.

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.