This Day…

1896  – Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield.

1828  – 1st American Indian newspaper in US, “Cherokee Phoenix” was published.

1856  – Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio

1897 – National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)

1870 – Ester Hobart Morris is appointed Justice of the Peace in South Pass, Wyoming.  She’s the first female JOP in the Old Wes.

1870 – Utah becomes the second territory in the United States to pass a law allowing women the vote, after Wyoming in 1869.

1942 – Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of “Chattanooga Choo Choo”

1857 – National Association of Baseball Players founded in New York

1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President.