This Day…

1875 – Pinkerton agents bomb the home of Jesse and Frank James.  The result is the death of their younger brother, Archie, and their mother lost her arm.

1848 – James Marshall discovers gold in California.

1871 – The cable-operated streetcar is patented in San Francisco.

1881 – Michael O’Rourke, also known as Johnny Behind the Duce, killed Phillip Schneider at Charleston, Arizona.

1864 – Vigilantes hang Sheriff Henry Plummer.

1862 – Samuel Colt dies at the age of 47.

Future cowboy movie star, Tom Mix, is born in Pennsylvania.

1887 – Perry Owens is elected sheriff of Apache County in the Arizona Territory.

1884 – Mark Twain publishes “Huckleberry Finn.”

1862 – The USS Red Rover is commissioned by the United States Navy as a hospital ship and takes aboard the first women to serve as nurses aboard a navy ship. They were Sisters of the Order of the Holy Cross.