This Day…

1894 – Early 5 second film of Fred Ott sneezing shot by Edison Manufacturing – 1st ever copyrighted.

1939 – MLB catcher Roy Campanella (18) weds Bernice Ray

1835 – Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River.

1860 – Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad.

1912 –  1st “Keystone Kops” film, entitled “Hoffmeyer’s Legacy”.

1915 – 28th US President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before marries second wife Edith Bolling Galt, a descendant of native American Pocahontas.

1773 – Boston tea party incident – Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston harbour in protest against British imposed Tea Act.

1856 – The Western Union Telegraph Company is formed to take advantage of the increasing system of telegraph wires across the country.

1882 – Victorien Sardous “Fedora” with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris.

1907 – First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington, Delaware, post office).