This Day…

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

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

1924 – “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News

1892 – Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden‘s father and stepmother are murdered with an axe in Fall River, Massachusetts; Borden is later arrested, tried and acquitted.

On August 1, 1911 the first rodeo was held at the race track grounds, however it was advertised as a Wild West Show. Since it ran for a whole week, “Red” Cornett called it “Big Week” and Frank Griffen wanted to call it “The California Rodeo.”

1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

1858 – First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service.

1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

1817 – The English novelist Jane Austen, who wrote such classics as Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813), died in Winchester, Hampshire, at age 41.