This Day…

1877  – Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War

1846 – Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth.

1918  – In the worlds worst flu epidemic in history (called Spanish Flu because the first major outbreak causing multiple deaths was in Spain), an estimated 30 million people died worldwide. Philadelphia was the hardest hit city in the United States. After the Liberty Loan parade on September 28, thousands of people became infected causing the death of 12,000 in the city.

1906 – Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay claim to have discovered the Magnetic South Pole in Antarctica.

1838 – Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York.

1930 – Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26).

1943 – “Gilda” actress Rita Hayworth (24) weds actor-director Orson Welles (28).

1922 – “Gone With The Wind” author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw

1940 –  “Wuthering Heights” actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds “Gone With The Wind” actress Vivien Leigh (26)

1830 – 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!