This Day…

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!

1911 – “Mona Lisa” stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913).

1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.

1851 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine.

1934 – Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player.