This Day…

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

1896 – Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek in the Yukon, Canada by George Carmack

1901 – SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70

1860 – US’s 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nevada)

1930 – Betty Boop Makes Her Debut  The animated cartoon character made her first appearance in the cartoon, Dizzy Dishes. Thought to be modeled after singer Helen Kane, Betty was shown as a woman with an exaggerated body and a child-like face. Created by animator Max Fleischer, she is one of most recognizable cartoon characters in the world.

1912 – Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for US President