This Day…

1922 – “Gone With The Wind” author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw

1940 –  “Wuthering Heights” actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds “Gone With The Wind” actress Vivien Leigh (26)

1830 – 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1911 – “Mona Lisa” stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913).

1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.

1851 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine.

1934 – Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player.

1882 – Hatfields of south West Virginia and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die.

1944 – Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.