This Day…

1908 – Henri Farman becomes the first person to fly an observed circuit of more than 1km, winning the Grand Prix d‘Aviation

1959 – TV western “Rawhide” with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS

1877 – Crazy Horse and his Sioux warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1907 – Maria Montessori opens her 1st Montessori school, in Rome

1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

1860 – Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for eight years on the Underground Railroad

1909 – American socialist women denounce suffrage as a movement of the middle class.

1903 – Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers.

1933 – Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam