This Day…

1952 – General Foods markets ‘Birds Eye” frozen peas, using the methds of company vice-president and process inventor Clarence Birdseye

1915 – An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women’s suffrage march on New York’s Fifth Ave, led by Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters

1918 – Germany agrees to further concessions to secure a WWI armistice

1901 – Theodore Roosevelt renames the “Executive Mansion” as “The White House”

1902 – American outlaw Tom Horn‘s murder trial begins, and he is eventually found guilty and sentenced to death

1956 – Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it soon replaces Jonas Salk‘s vaccine in many parts of the world

1883 – The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul

1902 – Beatrix Potter‘s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London

1895 – Stephen Crane‘s novel “The Red Badge of Courage” is published to wide acclaim

1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien‘s “The Hobbit” is published by George Allen and Unwin in London