Today in History (February 16)

1741 Benjamin Franklin begins publishing "The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America"

1896 First US newspaper comic strip, Richard Felton Outcault's "The Yellow Kid," is published in William Randolph Hearst’s "New York Journal"

1937 Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage" premieres in Paris

1963 Philosopher Hannah Arendt's controversial account of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is first published in "The New Yorker"