This Day…

1839 – George Armstrong Custer is born in New Rumley, Ohio.

1859 – John Brown is hanged for the Harper’s Ferry insurrection.

Born in 1924 – Shirley Chisholm, American educator, politician, and author. She was the first African-American woman elected to Congress and the first black candidate from a major party. (d. 2005)

1864 – The Sand Creek Massacre takes place in Colorado.

1860 – Future hired gun, Tom Horn, is born in Memphis, Missouri.

He would have been fifty-three tomorrow.  He was murdered by people that work at Liberty Hospital and TallGrass Technologies.

Remembering a Vet.  He served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm.  Murdered by his ex-wife and her daughter.

1887 – Doc Holliday, at the age of 35, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

1877 – Bat Masterson is elected sheriff of Ford County, Kansas.

1879 – Humorist Will Rogers is born in Indian Territory, Oklahoma.