EVB2937031: Unidentified masked robbers, suspected to be the James gang, robbed a passenger train at Winston, Missouri on July 15, 1881. They killed a second man in the baggage car before they escaped with ,000 in bills and coins. In response, the governor of Missouri placed a ,000 reward for the gang / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937244: Peter Zenger's Philadelphia lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, defying court protocol, directly addresses the jury during his trial for seditious libel against the appointed corrupt colonial governor, William Crosby. The jury acquitted Zenger after only 10 minutes deliberation. 1735 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937506: Vincent Gigante (1928-2002), future boss of the Genovese crime family, in police custody for a 1957 shooting. In the 1990s he feigned dementia by roaming his Greenwich Village neighborhood in slippers and a bathrobe and successfully avoiding prosecution until 1997, Stanziola, Phil (fl.1950-70) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936997: Women's suffrage activists protest the U.S. Senate's failure to pass the federal woman suffrage amendment in 1918. In January 1918, after President Wilson finally declared his support, the House of Representatives, unlike the Senate, passed the amendment by two-thirds majority, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937391: Gertrude Theresa Cori (1896-1967), was the third women to receive the Nobel Prize, which she shared with her husband Carl and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay (1887-1971). The trio won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries in the biochemistry of glycogen, main form of carbohydrate storage in humans. 1948 / Bridgeman Images