This Day…

1926 – Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails

1960 – LIFE magazine celebrates artist Anna Mary “Grandma” Moses’ 100th birthday by putting her on their cover.

1873 – Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall Street and the start of the Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression

1924 – Leopold and Loeb are found guilty of the murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in “the crime of the century”

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

1839 – Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma

1836 – Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas

1886 – Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders, ending the last major US-Indian war

1859 –  The first Pullman sleeping car is introduced on an overnight journey between Bloomington, Illinois, and Chicago

1929 – Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight