This Day…

1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt—who was first lady of the United States and one of the world’s most widely admired and powerful women, known as a diplomat and a humanitarian—died in New York City at age 78.

On this day in 1860, Americans elected as their president Abraham Lincoln, whose victory led to the secession of Southern states and the long and bloody Civil War that lasted until 1865 and ended slavery in the U.S.

1930 – 3rd Academy Awards: “All Quiet on the Western Front”, George Arliss (Disraeli) and Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) win

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