This Day…

1893 – New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.

1866 – Lucy B. Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree

1883 – “Ladies Home Journal” began publication.

1920  – The League of Women Voters is founded by Carrie Chapman Catt.

1870 – In the Utah Territory, women gained the right to vote.

1933 – The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.

1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe were granted United States citizenship.

1891 – 1st great train robbery by the Dalton Gang: Southern Pacific #17, near Alila (now Earlimart), California

1815 – Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson‘s 6,500 volumes.

1931 – “City Lights”, American silent romantic comedy film directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring himself and Virginia Cherrill, premieres at Los Angeles Theater.