This Day, That Year – October 16

The first edition of C.S. Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” was released in London on this day in 1950.

Did you know that:

• Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright was born on this day in 1854
• Frank Sprague was granted a patent for a multi-control for electric trains on this day in 1900
• Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio was founded on this day in 1923