Welcome to ON THIS DAY! Each day, we'll look at a few moments from history and popular culture. We'll show you where you can rediscover classic movies and music, or read more about great moments in history. We'll point you to e-books, downloadable and streamable music and film, and e-audio; and of course, we haven't forgotten about physical books or DVDs.

	On this day in 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. Poet Guillaume Apollinaire and artist Pablo Picasso were briefly considered suspects in the case, but the culprit turned out to be an Italian employee of the museum who thought that Leonardo Da Vinci's painting belonged in an Italian museum. It took two years to identify and apprehend the thief. The theft of the Mona Lisa helped to make it the icon it is today; before the theft, it was a relatively obscure work. R.A. Scotti's book about the theft and the investigation, Vanished Smile, is available in print, or as an e-book or e-audio from OverDrive.
	On this day in 1944, Jackie DeShannon was born. In addition to writing several of her own hit songs in the late 1960s ("Put a Little Love in Your Heart," "When You Walk in the Room"), she also wrote songs that would be successful for others, such as The Searchers' "Needles and Pins" and Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes." Several of DeShannon's albums are available for streaming at Hoopla.
	And on this day in 1961, Motown released "Please Mr. Postman" by the Marvelettes, which would be the label's first #1 hit, and begin Motown's domination of the pop charts in the 1960s. During the decade, the label would have nearly eighty songs make the top ten, a remarkable feat for what was then a small company. A compilation of the Marvelettes' first two albums, Playboy and Please Mr. Postman, is available for streaming or download at Freegal.