This Day…

1908 – Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette, violating the 1-day old “Sullivan Ordinance” banning women from smoking in public, and is fined $5. Appearing before the judge she stated “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law, and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.”

1895 – Oscar Wilde‘s play “An Ideal Husband” premieres at the Haymarket Theatre in London

1862 – American publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday, founder of the book-publishing firm Doubleday & Company, Inc., was born.

1925 – Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross was sworn in as the governor of Wyoming She was the first female governor in the U.S.

1890 – Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer

1895 – In Paris, the first commercial public screening of cinematographic films took place.

1904 – Stage play “Peter Pan” by J. M. Barrie premieres at the Duke of York Theatre in London

1919 – Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace.

1939 – Gloria Jacobs became the first girl to hold a world pistol record when she shot 299 out of a possible 300 points. She was 17 years old at the time.