On This Day…

1867 – Karl Marx’ “Das Kapital” published

1868 – “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston

1888 -National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time.

1920 – Scientific American magazine reported that the rapidly developing medium of radio would soon be used to broadcast music.

1949 – Mao Zedong, proclaimed the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on this day.

1967 – Pink Floyd arrive in New York for their first US tour

2017 – Former NFL star, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson is released from Nevada’s Lovelock Prison after 10 years detention for armed robbery and kidnapping

2018 – Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology awarded to James Allison and Tasuku Honjo for cancer treatment innovations