This Day…

1848 – New York Herald is the first major eastern newspaper to report the discovery of gold in California

On this day in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified after Tennessee—by just one vote—became the 36th state to approve it, capping the 72-year fight to win women the right to vote in the United States.

1894 – Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes meet to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their traditional faith

1925 – Mount Rushmore Monument is first proposed

1950 – Ethel Rosenberg testifies before grand jury on allegations of spying for the Soviet Union

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

1934 – US Court of Appeals upholds lower court ruling striking down government’s attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel “Ulysses”

1939 – First broadcast of “The Dinah Shore Show” on NBC Radio

1873 – Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, US 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the 1st time with the Sioux near the Tongue River. 1 man killed on each side.

1928 – In the first women’s Olympic track event, American sprinter Elizabeth Robinson equals her own world record of 12.2 s to win the 100 m gold medal in Amsterdam; Canadians Fanny Rosenfeld and Ethel Smith tie in 12.3 s