On This Day in History
The Holland Tunnel opens
1927The Holland Tunnel opened, linking Manhattan and Jersey City beneath the Hudson River. (Holland Tunnel)
Also on this day
- 1940 Fantasia premieres in New York — Walt Disney's Fantasia premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound.
- 1775 Montreal is taken without a major fight — American forces captured Montreal without significant opposition, during the Revolutionary War campaign known as the Invasion of Quebec.
- 1992 Australia's High Court decides Dietrich v The Queen — In Dietrich v The Queen, Australia's High Court held that a judge should usually grant a stay or adjournment when a defendant facing serious charges is left without a lawyer, even though there is no absolute right to publicly funded counsel.
Born this day in 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist and poet.
Events from Wikipedia’s On This Day list, CC BY-SA 4.0. See also the Library of Congress essay Today in History.