1827 New Orleans, Popular Culture: On this Tuesday a group of costumed and masked youths danced through the streets of the Vieux Carré accompanied by musicians. Mardi Gras remained amateurish until 1833 when a wealthy planter funded an official celebration in the city. From these seeds Tuesday grew fat.
1860 New York City, Technology: Mathew Brady photographed presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln campaigning. Brady said ‘I felt an obligation to preserve the faces of the country’s historic men and women.’
1907 Vienna, Science: Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud met for the first time at a coffee house where they ate sachertorte. Other dates are given for their first meeting, first discussion, first handshake….but the cake remains the same.
1932 Cambridge, Science: James Chadwick discovered the neutron for which he got a Nobel Prize. Later he headed the British atomic bomb project.
1990 Devonport (NZ), History: The final day of the rum ration for sailors of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Believe it or not, Ripley. The Royal Navy had ended the practice twenty years earlier in 1970.
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