This Day…

On this day in 1865, just after the effective end of the American Civil War, U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a production at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and died the next morning.

1955 – “Marty” directed by Delbert Mann and starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair premieres in New York (Best Picture 1956)

1912 – Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”.

1939-“Wuthering Heights” based on the novel by Emily Brontë, directed by William Wyler and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, premieres in Los Angeles

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.