This Day…

1879 – James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota

1929 – The movie “In Old Arizona” was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.

1910 – Constructions ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming

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.