This Day…

1776 – 1st vote on Declaration of Independence for Britain’s North American colonies

1838– Coronation of Queen Victoria aged 19 during a five-hour ceremony at Westminster Abbey, London [1]

1955 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Maple Bluff CC: Patty Berg wins her 5th WO title by 2 strokes from Louise Suggs and Fay Croker; first WO played at stroke play

1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract

1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens

1963 – Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to travel in space, returned to Earth in the spacecraft Vostok 6.

1856  – Republican Party opens its first national convention, party members meet in Philadelphia

1920 – US Post Office says children cannot be sent by parcel post (after various instances).

1947 – Perennial Christmas film “Miracle on 34th St” starring John Payne and Maureen O’Hara, directed by George Seaton is released

1856 – American industrialist and firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt (41) weds American philanthropist Elizabeth Hart Jarvis (29) at Christ Episcopal Church in Middleton, Connecticut, until his death in 1862