This Day…

1912 – Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”.

1939-“Wuthering Heights” based on the novel by Emily Brontë, directed by William Wyler and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, premieres in Los Angeles

1948 – Musician Nat King Cole (29) divorces dancer Nadine Robinson after 11 years of marriage

1831 – 1st US bank robbery, the City Bank in New York robbed of $245,000.

1834 – The first railroad tunnel in the U.S. was completed. The work was in Pennsylvania.

1892 – 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC).

1901 – U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steep Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world’s richest man.

1855 – 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls

1872 – Yellowstone becomes the world’s 1st national park.