This Day…

1903 – Temperance activist Carrie Nation attempts to address the US Senate

1863 – Abraham Lincoln begins first draft of his Gettysburg Address

1932  – Walt Disney Art School created

1938  – America’s first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified

1890 – Mabel Loomis Todd publishes the first edition of “Poems by Emily Dickinson“

1933 – Billie Holiday‘s second song and first hit, “Riffin’ the Scotch”, is released

1891 – 1st Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)

1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt—who was first lady of the United States and one of the world’s most widely admired and powerful women, known as a diplomat and a humanitarian—died in New York City at age 78.

On this day in 1860, Americans elected as their president Abraham Lincoln, whose victory led to the secession of Southern states and the long and bloody Civil War that lasted until 1865 and ended slavery in the U.S.

1930 – 3rd Academy Awards: “All Quiet on the Western Front”, George Arliss (Disraeli) and Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) win