This Day…

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

1941  – Duke Ellington and is orchestra record the song “Take the A Train.” This was the first of several times that they record this big band favorite.

1870 – US Army establishes US National Weather Service

1863 – Samuel Clemens first uses the pen name Mark Twain in a Virginia City newspaper, the “Territorial Enterprise”.

1930 – A Loening Air Yacht of Air Ferries makes its first passenger run between San Francisco and Oakland, California.

1888  – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. for “the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge”.