This Day…

1800 – The U.S. Congress divided the Northwest Territory into two parts. The western part became the Indiana Territory and the eastern section remained the Northwest Territory.

1886 –   A riot breaks out in Haymarket Square

1874 –  John B. Jones becomes major in Texas Rangers

1927 The first federal prison for women opens

1881 – On the streets of Dodge City, famous western lawman and gunfighter Bat Masterson fights the last gun battle of his life.

1921 – Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.

1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk.

1843 Yellowstone photographer William Jackson is born.

1902 – Esther Morris, the first woman judge in American history, dies in Cheyenne, Wyoming.