This Day…

1841 – First emigrant wagon train to make it to California leaves Independence, Missouri on a 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada

1922 – “Latin Lover” silent actor Rudolph Valentino (27) weds film costume and set designer Natacha Rambova (25) in Mexicali, Mexico; divorce in 1925

1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London

1914 – US Congress establishes Mother’s Day

1886 – The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fires upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.

1933  – Nellie T. Ross takes office as the first female director of the US Mint

1912 – The Beverly Hills Hotel opens on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California

1872 – Jesse James‘ gang robs a bank of $1,500 in Columbia, Kentucky, killing bank employee Robert A.C. Martin during the crime

1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War

1889 – A 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for white colonial settlement in Oklahoma officially starts at 12pm