Annie Oakley died at age 66 of pneumonia.
Oakley in 1922.
Mentioned here just the other day in connection with a 1901 train wreck, she performed little after that event, but continued to set shooting records right up until her death.
An iron mine collapsed in Ishpeming Michigan, killing 51 miners in the state's worst industrial disaster.
Charles Lindbergh bailed out of of U.S. airmail biplane above McLean County, Illinois as the airplane suffered failure.
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