• Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, one of the best-selling books of all time, was first published on this day in 1877. You can read it all on Wikisource. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty
• On this day in 1963, 2 days after JFK's assassination, businessman Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald. This public domain photograph captured the moment. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_Harvey_Oswald_being_shot_by_Jack...