FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS

Ann Smith Franklin (October 2, 1696 – April 16, 1763) was an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin. She published the Mintunt, printed an almanac series. She was the country’s first female newspaper editor, the first woman to write an almanac, and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island‘s Journalism Hall of Fame.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

1480s

• DIED 1485: RICHARD III OF ENGLAND

1760s

• 1762: ANN FRANKLIN, SISTER-IN-LAW OF BENJAMIN, BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE EDITOR FOR AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER, THE NEWPORT, R.I., “MERCURY” FOLLOWING HER HUSBAND’S DEATH.

1830s

• 1831: NAT TURNER LED SLAVE REBELLION IN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA

1850s

• 1851: THE SCHOONER, AMERICA, WON AN INTERNATIONAL RACE SPONSORED BY THE ROYAL YACHT SOCIETY IN ENGLAND. THIS BECAME A TRADITIONAL INTERNATIONAL EVENT KNOWN AS THE AMERICA’S CUP RACE

1860s

• BORN 1862: CLAUDE DEBUSSY (COMPOSER)
• 1865: WILLIAM SHEPPARD PATENTED A LIQUID SOAP (PATENT #49561)

1880s

• DIED 1886: CALVIN E. STOWE (PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL STUDIES)

1900s

• 1902: U.S. PRESIDENT TEDDY ROOSEVELT BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO RIDE IN AN AUTOMOBILE
• DIED 1904: KATE CHOPIN (AUTHOR)

1910s

• BORN 1917: JOHN LEE HOOKER (SINGER)

1920s

• BORN 1920: RAY BRADBURY (SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR)

1930s

• BORN 1939: CARL YASTRZEMSKI (BASEBALL PLAYER)

1940s

• BORN 1947: CINDY WILLIAMS (ACTRESS)

1950s

• 1959: STEVEN C. ROCKEFELLER MARRIED ANNE MARIE RASMUSSEN

1960s

• BORN 1963: TORI AMOS (MUSICIAN)
• 1966: THE BEATLES ARRIVED IN NEW YORK CITY ON THEIR LAST U.S. TOUR

2000s

• 2003: OKANAGAN MOUNTAIN PARK WILDFIRE STRENGTHENED, KELOWNA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
• 2004: MASKED THIEVES BURST INTO THE OSLO MUSEUM AND SNATCHED A VERSION OF THE EDVARD MUNCH MASTERPIECE THE SCREAM AND A SECOND MUNCH PAINTING FROM THE WALLS AS VISITORS WATCHED IN SHOCK

2010s

• 2011: SEVERAL EARTHQUAKES STRUCK SOUTHERN COLORADO; THE LARGEST MEASURING MAGNITUDE-5.3

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