This Day…

June 13, 1892 – New Mexico, still a territory, opens it university; Congress will later grant over 300,000 acres to support the school.

1969 – MLB legend Mickey Mantle gives his farewell retirement speech during “Mickey Mantle Day” at Yankee Stadium, 60,096 see #7 retired.

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.