This Day…

1917  – The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing prohibition of alcohol, is approved by the US congress and sent to the states for ratification [1]

1874  – 1st reigning king to visit US is the King of Hawaii, received by President Grant

1913  – Iconic painting the “Mona Lisa” is recovered two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris

1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his famous “Day of Infamy” speech to a joint session of Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

1619  – Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish, England, disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God, considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas

1932  – “Adventures of Charlie Chan” 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network

1864 – Sand Creek Massacre: Third Colorado Cavalry kills and injures 150 to 600 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Native Americans, including Cheyenne Chief One Eye

1934  – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson and two FBI agents die in a shoot-out in Barrington, Illinois

1930 – Ruth Nichols sets the women’s transcontinental air flight record from Mineola, New York, to California in a Lockheed Vega

1904 – III Summer Olympic Games close at Washington University in St. Louis Francis Olympic Field