This Day…

1916 – Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage.

1907 – Motion-picture actor John Wayne, who embodied the image of the strong, taciturn cowboy or soldier, was born in Winterset, Iowa.

1867 – Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken).

1883 – William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody opened Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska.

1929 – 1st Academy Awards: “Wings”, Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor win.

1923 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter for “One of Ours”.

1924 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire).

1958 – “Vertigo”, American film noir psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, is released.

1949 – Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for “Death of a Salesman”.

1865 – Steamboat “SS Sultana” explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.