On this day in ...... 1890 (120 years ago today), Elizabeth Jane Cochran, who as a journalist used the name Nellie Bly, "returned to New York in triumph," 72 days after beginning a global journey inspired by Jules Verne's book Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). She'd begun her trek in New Jersey, then went to Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East, all the while cabling her adventures to New York World readers back in the United States. (image credit) Bly's news writing career went beyond this famous feat, however; among other things, she was an "outspoken critic of the death penalty."
(Prior January 25 posts are here and here.)
