This Day In History
- Business
- 1959 The first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Barbie, the first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult features, was the brainchild of Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel, Inc. with her husband in 1945. Seeing her young daughter ignore her baby dolls to play make-believe with paper dolls of adult women, Handler realized there was an important niche in the market for a toy that enabled little girls to imagine the future.
- Politics
- 1926 Bertha Landes is elected the first woman mayor of Seattle.
- Sports
- 1885 While preparing for her audition, Annie Oakley caught the attention of Buffalo Bill Cody's business manager, who hired her on the spot. That season she appeared before 150,000 people in 40 cities, and Oakley went on to perform in Cody's Wild West show for almost all of the next 17 years.
- Writing
- 1907 Playwright Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon" premieres in Dublin.
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