This Day…

1864 – Sand Creek Massacre: Third Colorado Cavalry kills and injures 150 to 600 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Native Americans, including Cheyenne Chief One Eye

1934  – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson and two FBI agents die in a shoot-out in Barrington, Illinois

1930 – Ruth Nichols sets the women’s transcontinental air flight record from Mineola, New York, to California in a Lockheed Vega

1904 – III Summer Olympic Games close at Washington University in St. Louis Francis Olympic Field

1903 – Temperance activist Carrie Nation attempts to address the US Senate

1863 – Abraham Lincoln begins first draft of his Gettysburg Address

1932  – Walt Disney Art School created

1938  – America’s first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified

1890 – Mabel Loomis Todd publishes the first edition of “Poems by Emily Dickinson“

1933 – Billie Holiday‘s second song and first hit, “Riffin’ the Scotch”, is released