This Day…

1972 – TV comedy “M*A*S*H”, adapted from the movie, starring Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Wayne Rogers, and McLean Stevenson debuts on CBS in the US

1847 – American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.

1960 – Nationwide release (US) of Alfred Hitchcock‘s “Psycho” starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh

1944 – Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp

1878 – 1st female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company in Boston.

1905 – Detroit Tigers future Baseball HOF center fielder Ty Cobb makes his MLB debut, doubling off Jack Chesbro in a 5-3 win over the NY Highlanders at Bennett Park, Detroit.

1916 – US Department of Interior forms National Park Service.

1850 – 1st US National Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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