This Day…

1806-Pike’s expedition makes a stockade on the upper Rio Grande in Spanish territory; he and his party are eventually taken prisoners by a Spanish force from Santa Fe, then led back to the American border.

1900-Several diseases are now epidemic among the miners and Eskimos who have descend on Nome, and most of the game in the area has been killed by hungry ‘boomers.’  Approximately 30,000 men are stranded on the beaches at Nome, of whom only a few hundred are even trying to find gold.

1889-Washington is admitted to the Union.  During the past decade the territory has developed railway connections with the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley.  The population has grown from almost 25,000 in 1870 t more than 350,000.  Lumbering, shipbuilding, and commercial fishing are rapidly expanding.

1880 – In the Chinese Exclusion Treaty, between the United State and China, the United States may restrict, but no exclude, the immigration of Chinese.

1889-Washington is admitted to the Union.  During the past decade the territory has developed railway connections with the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley.  The population has grown from almost 25,000 in 1870 to more than 350,000.  Lumbering, shipbuilding, and commercial fishing are rapidly expanding.

1920  – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.

1856 – Mabel Loomis Todd, American editor and author (d. 1932)

1875 – Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time.