ON THIS DAY
185 1:
Melvil Dewey, who devised the library cataloguing system which bears his name, was born in New York.
1868:
London’s first traffic lights were installed in Westminster, to help MPs get to the House of Commons.
1868:
Whitaker’s Almanack was published for the first time.
1869:
Wyoming became the first American territory to grant women the vote.
1896:
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist and industrialist who invented dynamite, died. On this day in 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.
1907 :
Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, the first time it had been awarded to an English writer.
1936:
Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication. He choose his love of American divorcee Wallis Simpson over his royal duty.
2011:
The Sun, Earth and Moon fell almost exactly in line.