On this day in 1930, telephone operator Louise Gipe, a heroine of the St. Francis Dam disaster, attempted suicide.
On Feb. 12, 1930, Sutter County interests were forming a water district to protect water rights for farmers. “Speed plans to organize water unit in Sutter,” was the headline in /the Appeal-Democrat.
From 1905 until his death in 1916, Percival Lowell searched for a ninth planet, which he called Planet X. Lowell had predicted the planet based on irregularities in the orbit of Uranus. In 1929, ...
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