On this date in history:
In 1868, seven members of the Reno gang stole $98,000 from a railway car at Marshfield, Ind. It was the original "Great Train Robbery."
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt established Crater Lake National Park in southwest Oregon, the fifth-oldest national park in the United States. The defining feature is Crater Lake, the remains of Mount Mazama, a volcano that collapsed after a major eruption thousands of years ago.
In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first U.S president to visit Moscow.
In 1987, a tornado flattened Saragosa, Texas, population 185, killing 29 residents and injuring 121.
