Frederick Douglass appealing to President Lincoln and his cabinet to enlist Negroes. Image shot 1863. Exact date unknown.

Frederick Douglass appealing to President Lincoln and his cabinet to enlist Negroes. Image shot 1863. Exact date unknown.


Today in History: Born on March 2

1831

George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car.

1847

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first telephone as well as other devices.

1873

William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor.

1895

Matthew Ridgway, U.S. Army leader in World War II and Korea.

1911

Jean Harlow, (Hell's Angels, Dinner at Eight).

1916

Robert Whitehead, Broadway producer (Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons).

1918

Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.

1920

Robert Searle, cartoonist.

1926

James Merrill, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Divine Comedies).

1927

Nicolas Freeling, crime writer.

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