Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, published in 1906, was an expose of Chicago’s stockyards and the meat-packing industry, in general. The Jungle revealed unsanitary conditions and what was really in the meat that was being eaten, like rats being swept up and dumped into sausage-making machines.

The book made such bold statements that no publisher would touch it. Sinclair published it himself and The Jungle became a best seller, resulting in laws being passed to ensure pure and safe food products.

What became of Upton Sinclair? He became a vegetarian and used the profits from The Jungle to found a cooperative community in New Jersey. He also wrote about the Teapot Dome scandal in Oil, the Sacco and Vanzetti case in Boston and he penned a Pulitzer Prize-winner, Dragon’s Teeth, an antifascist novel, in 1943. Sometimes it pays to fight your way out of the jungle.

Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP

6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
Equal Rights Party founding convention is held in San Francisco, and nominates female candidates
for President, Vice President. 
1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP

Born in New Orleans on this day in 1885, Jelly Roll Morton became famous at an early age for his classically informed improvisational piano playing often in brothels and other nontraditional settings. With his Red Hot Peppers in the 1920s, he pioneered the early jazz a practice of reorchestrating and improvising upon well-known standards, and also wrote many enduring jazz tunes including the 'London Rag' and the 'Jelly Roll Blues'. 
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer, geboren

Alexander Mitscherlich, deutscher Psychoanalytiker, gest. 1982, geboren
Mitscherlich und seine Frau Margarete M.-Nielsen untersuchten in ihrem Buch »Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern« (1967) das Verhältnis der Deutschen zur Vergangenheit des Nationalsozialismus und des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
 Alexander Mitscherlich
Deutscher Psychoanalytiker, dessen (gemeinsam mit Ehefrau Margaret geschriebenes) Werk "Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern" den meisten eher als Phrase denn als Buch ein Begriff ist. , geboren
 1908: Alexander Mitscherlich, dt. Psychoanalytiker, geboren
 1908 - Zeke (Henry John) Bonura
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Washington Nationals, NY Giants, Chicago Cubs; died Mar 9, 1987, geboren

1946 - In Cannes findet erstmals das «Festival International du Film» statt
 1946: In Cannes findet erstmals das "Festival International du Film" statt.
1946 - WNBT-TV, New York became the first station to promote a motion picture. It showed scenes from The Jolson Story.

 1948 - John Panozzo
musician: drums: group: Styx: Lady, Suite Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto; died July 16, 1996, geboren

1953 - Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt Ponset on the radio Western.

Sabine Christiansen, deutsche Journalistin und Moderatorin, geboren
 1957: Gary Cole, amerik. Filmschauspieler, "Die Brady Family", "Alles Routine", geboren
1957 - Sabine Christiansen (44), deutsche Fernsehjournalistin und Moderatorin, geboren
 1957: Sabine Christiansen, dt. Fernsehjournalistin und Fernsehmoderatorin, geboren
1957 - Sabine Christiansen (45), deutsche Fernsehjournalistin, Moderatorin der Talkshow «Sabine Christiansen», geboren
1957 Jean Sibelius Finnish composer, dies at 91 , gestorben
1957 Fran Drescher NYC, actress (Cadillac Man) , geboren
1957 Vladmir Tkachenko USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1980) , geboren

1973 - In three straight sets, Billie Jean King showed who was the better tennis player in the Battle of the Sexes. She defeated Bobby Riggs in the televised event at the Houston Astrodome, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Howard Cosell was the announcer.

1973 - Singer Jim Croce, his lead guitarist, Maury Muehleisen, and four others died when their plane crashed into a tree while taking off for a concert in Sherman, Texas.
1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season

1999 - Raissa Gorbatschowa, Ehefrau des ehemaligen sowjetischen Staatschefs Michail Gorbatschow, geb. 1932, gestorben