This Day…

1871 – Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000

1922 – Completed Lincoln Memorial dedicated by US Chief Justice William Howard Taft in front of 50,000

1923 – US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

1933  – Walt Disney’s short film “3 Little Pigs” released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934)

1908 – 1st American horror movie silent film “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde” premieres in Chicago

1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanishes in Venice, California She shows up a month later saying she’s been kidnapped

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