This Day…

1847 – Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper “North Star”

1934 – The U.S. bank robber George “Baby Face” Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, IL.

1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife’s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.

1890 – Edison lab records the 1st surviving motion picture, “Monkeyshines No. 1”, shot by William am Kennedy Dickson and William Heise [date disputed between June 1889 and November 21–27, 1890]

1863 – Abraham Lincoln begins first draft of his Gettysburg Address

1935 – “A Night at the Opera”, comedy film directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released

1902 – “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad is first published in one volume (previously serialized) by William Blackwood in Edinburgh

1918 – WWI Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”

1880 – French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her US debut at NY’s Booth Theater

1860 – Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois elected the 16th President of the United States of America