This Day…

1915 – 28th US President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before marries second wife Edith Bolling Galt, a descendant of native American Pocahontas.

1773 – Boston tea party incident – Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston harbour in protest against British imposed Tea Act.

1856 – The Western Union Telegraph Company is formed to take advantage of the increasing system of telegraph wires across the country.

1882 – Victorien Sardous “Fedora” with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris.

1907 – First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington, Delaware, post office).

1941 – Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.

1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West

1903 – Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners’ strike.

1931 – Actress Gloria Swanson (32) weds Michael Farmer