This Day…

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

1939“The Wizard of Oz” opens at Loews Capitol Theatre in NY

1926 – Gertrude Ederle became the first American woman to swim the English Channel. She was 19 years old at the time. The swim took her 14 1/2 hours.

1821 – “The Saturday Evening Post” was published for the first time as a weekly.

1832 – Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US.

1914 – World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

1896 – Vitascope Hall, 1st permanent for-profit movie theatre, opens in New Orleans.

1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado

1879 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.

1876 – Baseball’s first official no-hitter: George Bradley of the St Louis Brown Stockings no-hits the Hartford Dark Blues, 2-0.