This 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

1906 – San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city

1941 – American actress Doris Day (19) weds trombonist Albert Jorden

1862  – American poet Emily Dickinson first corresponds with author and future literary mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a relationship that lasts the rest of her life

1872 – Jesse James‘ gang robs a bank of $1,500 in Columbia, Kentucky, 1 dead