This Day…

1872 – 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio).

1865 – Columbia, South Carolina, burns down during American Civil War

1941  – Duke Ellington and is orchestra record the song “Take the A Train.” This was the first of several times that they record this big band favorite.

1870 – US Army establishes US National Weather Service

1863 – Samuel Clemens first uses the pen name Mark Twain in a Virginia City newspaper, the “Territorial Enterprise”.

1930 – A Loening Air Yacht of Air Ferries makes its first passenger run between San Francisco and Oakland, California.

1888  – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. for “the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge”.

1886 – Modern hockey is born – The foundation of The Hockey Association in England formalized a modern version of the game that had already been played in ancient times.

1831 – 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina.