Episode Details

The U.S. Post Office Department is founded, Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" and Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiere, "The Futurist Manifesto" is published, Prohibition in the U.S. begins to roll back, U.S. film studios allow the government to censor their scripts, and Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" begin to appear on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, and it is the birthday of Ellen Gilchrist - with a reading from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."