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