1877 – Crazy Horse and his Sioux warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
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1907 – Maria Montessori opens her 1st Montessori school, in Rome
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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.
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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
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1909 – American socialist women denounce suffrage as a movement of the middle class.
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1903 – The Wright brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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1903 – Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers.
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1933 – Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
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1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada
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1965 – “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, the first Peanuts animated special premieres on CBS in the US
