It’s Karl Marx’s birthday and Napoleon’s last day. The American Medical Association is organized and the panic of 1893. Yep, as Marx said Boom and Bust is part of Capitalism. The screw on bottle cap is patented and Alan Shepard becomes the first American in Space. In Birthdays Tammy Wynette, Journalist Nelly Bly and Philosopher Soren Kierkegard.
1762 Russia & Prussia sign
St. Petersburg peace treaty. Ended the 7 years war which consumed most of the known world.
1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent for a method of weaving straw with silk.
1818 Karl Marx has a birthday. He was formerly a foreign correspondent for the
New York Tribune.
1891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
1893 On the topic of financial boom and bust, the great
panic of 1893 began on this day. .
1900 "
The Billboard" began weekly publication. Actually began in 1894.
1925 Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) refused to accept Pulitzer for his novel Arrowsmith. Find out why Lewis declined this literary honor at the
Sinclair Lewis Society.
l925 That same year
John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin ’s theory of Evolution.
1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip.
1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to
James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1962 "West Side Story"
soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1981 Bobby Sands became the first of 10 IRA hunger strikers to die in Maze prison in
Northern Ireland .
Notable Birthdays
1865 "
Nellie Bly" Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (journalist)
1868 Mary Emogene Hazeltine (librarian)
1942 Tammy Wynette Redbay AL ,
country singer (Stand by your Man)
