This Day…

1961 – Mister Ed, the TV series about the talking horse, began airing in syndication.

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

1932 – “The Mummy,” directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, is released in the US as the first Mummy horror film

1898 – Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium

1917  – The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing prohibition of alcohol, is approved by the US congress and sent to the states for ratification [1]

1874  – 1st reigning king to visit US is the King of Hawaii, received by President Grant

1913  – Iconic painting the “Mona Lisa” is recovered two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris

1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his famous “Day of Infamy” speech to a joint session of Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

1619  – Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish, England, disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God, considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas

1932  – “Adventures of Charlie Chan” 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network