This day in history

Some interesting historical events that happened today include:

 

1819 -  Thomas Blanchard received a patent for his lathe capable of copying a pattern

 

1839 -  the Cherokee Nation signed its constitution. Delegates from both the Old Serrlers and the Ross Party signed the document

 

1848 -  Frederick Douglass presided over the National Convention of Black Freeman. The 3-day conference was held in Cleveland, OH

 

1891 - Henry C. Daltob saved a stabbing victim brought into City Hospital in St. Louis, MO. The Professor of Surgery at Marion Sims College of Medicine used a surgical suture on the pericardium, saving the mans life. This procedure is considered by many to be one of the very first heart surgeries

 

1892 -  John Froelich invented the first gasoline-powered tractor and created the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Co. On this day he sold his first tractor

 

1899 -  the first cases of evaporated milk was produced in a facility in Kent, WA. It was called Carnation Sterilized Cream and was produced by the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Co later known as the Carnation Milk Co

 

1901 -  President William McKinley created his constituents one last time at Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition. Despite added security and Secret Service agents, Leon Czolgosz approached the President in the Temple of Music and fired 2 shots into his abdomen. McKinley died later that day and became the 3rd assassinated US President 

 

1916 -  Clarence Saunders opened his first Piggly Wiggly, the first self-service grocery store in Memphis, TN. Before this, grocery shopping was like going to the pharmacy where patrons took a list to the store and the grocer filled the order

 

1920 -  the first-ever broadcast of a prizefight over the radio took place. Radio Station WWJ broadcast the event between Jack Dempsey and Billy Miske. It lasted 3 rounds when Miske dropped Dempsey with a KO

 

1991 -  after 67 years, Leningrad changed its name back to St. Petersburg 

 

2009 -  the world's largest paddling of ducks raced down the River Thames during the Great British Duck Race. The world record event raised money for several charities

 

2010 -  The King's Speech premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. It stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter and won 4 Oscar's and numerous other accolades

 

Some interesting birthdays include:

 

Marquis de Lafayette (1757)

Catherine Esther Beecher (1800) - pioneer in women education and sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Isabella Beecher Hooker, but did not support women's rights to vote

James Melville Gilliss (1811)

John Henry Dallmeyer (1830)

Jane Addams (1860) - first American woman honored with the Nobel Peace Prize

Wilson Great batch (1919) - developed the first implantable pacemaker and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

Jo Anne Worley (1937)

Roger Waters (1943) - co-founder of Pink Floyd

Jane Curtin (1947) - I loved her on 3rd Rock from the Sun as Dr Mary Albright

Carly Fiorina (1954)

Elizabeth Vargas (1962)

Idris Elba (1972)