Source: Good News Network
150 years ago today, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Parliament building in London. J P Knight, a railway signaling engineer, used the same waving semaphore arms as for trains, illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. Modern traffic lights were an American invention 45 years later.
(1868)
MORE Good News on this Date:
- Peru secured its independence by defeating Spanish colonialists (1824)
- UK Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson’s iconic poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, describing a terrible loss during a Crimean War battle, was published in The Examiner (1854)
- In Louisiana, P.B.S. Pinchback (born Pinckney Benton Stewart) became the first African-American to serve as the governor of a U.S. state (1872)
- Academy Award winning actor Judi Dench turns 84 years old today (1934)
- Illinois-born actor, director, producer and fashion designer John Malkovich who has appeared in more than 70 films was born 65 years ago today (1953)
- 60s teen idol Donny Osmond, with hits “Go Away Little Girl” and “Puppy Love”, and a 2002 Christmas CD, who also won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars, was born (1957)
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