On this day in 1935, a petty theft in a S.H. Kress store and rumors a Black Puerto Rican boy's death led to an all-out riot in Harlem. 

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On this day in 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers broke into the Gardner Museum in Boston and stole millions of dollars worth of art that was never recovered.

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Labor and civil rights movement leader Bayard Rustin was born on this day in 1912. 

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On this day in 1968, hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were killed by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War.

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On this day in 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar was assassinated.

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On this day in 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree.

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On this day in 1988, protests at Gallaudet University in support of naming the school's first deaf president ended. Dr. I. King Jordan, a deaf man, became the university's president.

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On this day in 1930, Gandhi and dozens of his followers set out on the Salt March to protest the salt tax and the British Raj. 

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The first public basketball game took place on this day in 1892. 

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Today on the show, we celebrate Women's History Month by honoring the life and work of Lillian Wald with special guest Marjorie Feld, who wrote the book "Lillian Wald: A Biography."

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