This Day…

1945 – US Army liberates 31,601 people from the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

1861 – U.S. President Lincoln issued an order to General Winfield Scott that authorized him to suspend the writ of habeas corpus between Philadelphia and Washington at or near any military line.

1882 – The Earp posse got itself dusted up at Mescal Springs by some bandits who robbed a store in Charleston.  Wyatt claimed to have killed Curly Bill there but it was another of his many lies.  Curly Bill had previously left the territory.  Wyatt and Doc then prudently fled to Colorado in order to avoid arrest by Behan’s posse on the Stillwater warrant.

1889  – The Oklahoma Land run begins with an estimated 50,000 people lined up at noon hoping to stake a claim for a homestead ( the claim could be up to 160 acres in size ), it included most of the following Oklahoma Counties, Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne ( in total about 2 million acres ). This land had previously been occupied by Indians but the Indian Appropriations Bill approved the transfer of two million acres for settlement.

1896  – 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa‘s “El Capitan” premieres in NYC.

1943 – Actress Claire Trevor (34) weds Navy lieutenant Cyclos William Dunsmoore in Tijuana, Mexico.

1912  – RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people

1860 – 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California.

1904 – Long Acre Square in Manhattan, New York, was renamed Times Square.

1908 – American Actress Bette Davis is born.