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#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1924: Gazette staff artist Alexander Calder sketches world-record bicyclist Alf Goullet.

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1945: "Mildred Burke, Champion Lady Wrestler, Demonstrates Holds."

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1959: "Hate Is Her Business!" The Gazette profiles champion pro wrestler the Fabulous Moolah.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1891: "Down, Down, to Destruction." Daredevil Zoelta Bentley falls from her balloon in Ohio.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: The Gazette, a friend of labor, reports on the Homestead Strike and Riot in which 10 people were killed during one of the most famous labor disputes in U.S. history. Pictured are "captured Pinkerton men forced to run the gauntlet."

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1900: Captain Louis Sorcho receives a gold Police Gazette medal for breaking the record for continuous time under water in a diving suit. Sorcho remained under water for 8 hrs 21 min 45 sec.