This Day…

1902 – American outlaw Tom Horn‘s murder trial begins, and he is eventually found guilty and sentenced to death

1956 – Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it soon replaces Jonas Salk‘s vaccine in many parts of the world

1883 – The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul

1902 – Beatrix Potter‘s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London

1895 – Stephen Crane‘s novel “The Red Badge of Courage” is published to wide acclaim

1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien‘s “The Hobbit” is published by George Allen and Unwin in London

1926 – Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails

1960 – LIFE magazine celebrates artist Anna Mary “Grandma” Moses’ 100th birthday by putting her on their cover.

1873 – Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall Street and the start of the Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression

1924 – Leopold and Loeb are found guilty of the murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in “the crime of the century”