MARCH 20
1934:Two-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field and future golf champion Mildred “Babe” Didrikson pitches an inning for the Philadelphia Athletics during an exhibition baseball game against the Brooklyn Dodgers; she allows the Dodgers no hits and one walk.
1852: Abolitionist and schoolteacher Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an influential antislavery work, is published by John P. Jewett and Co. in Boston. The widely read book sells 300,000 copies in the first year of its publication and will become the best-selling novel of the 19th century.
1985: Eighteen days after setting out from Anchorage, musher Libby Riddles and her team of 13 sled dogs cross the finish line in Nome, Alaska, making Riddles the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The next three Iditarod races will be won by another female musher, Susan Butcher.
1852: Abolitionist and schoolteacher Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an influential antislavery work, is published by John P. Jewett and Co. in Boston. The widely read book sells 300,000 copies in the first year of its publication and will become the best-selling novel of the 19th century.
1985: Eighteen days after setting out from Anchorage, musher Libby Riddles and her team of 13 sled dogs cross the finish line in Nome, Alaska, making Riddles the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The next three Iditarod races will be won by another female musher, Susan Butcher.
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