Volume 13 , Issue 50

On This Day In History (December 12)

On this day in history, 12 December 1963, kenya gained its independence from Britain. Anyone remember when The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip by Roudlph Dirks debuted in the New York Journal? Check below.

On this same date in history, 1915, Frank Sinatra, an American singer and actor who elevated popular song into an art, was born. Following his death on 14 May 1998, his Obituary appeared in The times.

On This Date (12 December):

1. 1745 - John Jay, statesman and the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in New York City.
2. 1787 - Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
3. 1870 - Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first black congressman.
4. 1897 - The Katzenjammer Kids, the pioneering comic strip by Rudolph Dirks, debuted in the New York Journal.
5. 1914 - The New York Stock Exchange re-opened for the first time since July 30. The market had shut down when World War I broke out.
6. 1915 - Singer Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, N.J.
1917 - Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb.
7. 1925 - The first motel, the Motel Inn, opened, in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
8. 1947 - The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American Federation of Labor.

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