This Day…

1927  – America’s oldest aviation school, Parks College, opens

1873 – The first free kindergarten in the United States is started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri

1942 – Walt Disney’s animated movie “Bambi,” based on the book by Felix Salten, is released

1940  – Louis Buchalter is indicted on murder charges in Los Angeles for the killing of Harry Greenberg, a mob associate of casino owner Meyer Lansky and mobster Bugsy Siegel

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”