On this day :

1895 First commercial movie screened, 1781 British post troops on Johns Island, 1938 Silentfilm star and inventor of mechanical turn signal dies, 1822 William Booth Taliaferro born, 1973 Solzhenitsyns The Gulag Archipelago published, 1793 An American hero is arrested in France, 1908 Earthquake rocks Sicily, 1832 Calhoun resigns vice presidency, 1869 Americas first Labor Day, 1908 Worst European earthquake, 1989 Dubcek returns to public office, 1954 Denzel Washington born, 1932 Argentine novelist Manuel Puig is born, 1991 Nine killed in a stampede outside a hiphop celebrity basketball game, 1900 Carry Nation attacks a Kansas saloon, 1856 Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton Virginia, 1975 Central Red Army defeats New York Rangers at MSG, 1964 South Vietnamese win costly battle at Binh Gia, 1972 Hanoi announces return to the Paris peace talks, 1856 Woodrow Wilson is born, 1941 Request made for creation of construction battalions,