This Day…

1865 Flag flown at full mast over White House for the first time since Lincoln was shot.

1539 Black Spanish explorer Estevan is reported killed.

1871 Chief Satanta massacres teamsters.

1861 William Fetterman joins the U.S. Army .

1896 Western writer Mari Sandoz is born.

1887 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show opens.

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