This Day, That Year – April 20

The first horse-drawn mobile home was used on a journey from London to Cyprus on this day in 1879.

Did you know that:

• Philippe Pinel, a French physician known as the founder of psychiatry, was born on this day in 1745
• Edgar Allen Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” was published in Graham’s Magazine on this day in 1841
• Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende on this day in 1902