This Day…

1877 – Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 37.

1922 “Gone With The Wind” author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Berrien “Red” Upshaw; divoce in 1924

1885 – Pulitzer Prize-winning American author (Age of Innocence) Edith Jones (23), marries Edward “Teddy” Wharton (36)

1907 – Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater in 57 seconds, at Aquatic Park in San Francisco, California.

1932 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the U.S. non-stop. The trip from Los Angeles, CA to Newark, NJ, took about 19 hours.

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

1932 – Actress Bette Davis (24) weds musician Harmon Nelson (25)

1939 – “The Wizard of Oz”, American musical fantasy film directed by Victor Fleming and King Vidor, premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, starring Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Frank Morgan (Wizard), Billie Burke (Glinda), and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch)

1930 – Animated character Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer’s cartoon “Dizzy Dishes”.

1950 – Florence Chadwick swims English Channel (13:23)