This Day…

1860 – US’s 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nevada)

1930 – Betty Boop Makes Her Debut  The animated cartoon character made her first appearance in the cartoon, Dizzy Dishes. Thought to be modeled after singer Helen Kane, Betty was shown as a woman with an exaggerated body and a child-like face. Created by animator Max Fleischer, she is one of most recognizable cartoon characters in the world.

1912 – Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for US President

1876 – Wild Bill Hickok—a frontiersman, marksman, gambler, and legend of the American West—was murdered in the city of Deadwood, in what is now South Dakota.

1928 – In the first women’s Olympic track event, American sprinter Elizabeth Robinson equals her own world record 12.2s to win 100m gold medal in Amsterdam; Canadians Fanny Rosenfeld & Ethel Smith dead-heat (12.3s)

In 1863, Sam Houston, former president of the Republic of Texas, died in Huntsville at age 70.

1832 – Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming’s South Pass

1848 – The Women’s Rights Convention took place in Seneca Fall, NY. Bloomers were introduced at the convention

1886 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Blanche Bingley defeats 2-time defending champion Maud Watson 6–3, 6-3

1941 – Patricia Ann Ragsdale was born. She was loved by her children, but was brokenhearted her entire life.