This Day…

1948 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of US Congress

1942 – Enid Blyton publishes “Five on a Treasure Island” first of her “Famous Five” children’s novels, start of one of the best-selling children’s series ever with over 100 million sold

1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope [kinetographic camera], a device which produces moving pictures

1806 – New York City’s second daily newspaper, the “Daily Advertiser,” was published for the last time.

1862 – Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.

1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental non-stop flight, the first by a woman, landing in Newark, New Jersey

1920 – Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Roberts play “The Bat” based on Reinhart’s novel “The Circular Staircase”premieres on Broadway in New York

1911 – “Mona Lisa” stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia; recovered in 1913

1895 – American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin is shot and killed by John Selman Sr. in a saloon in El Paso, Texas