Today in History - 1922

Annie Oakley broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She smashed 98 out of 100 clay targets thrown at 16 yards while at a match at the Pinehurst Gun Club in North Carolina. She hit the first fifty, missed the 51st, then the 67th. She was sixty-two at the time.

On another day, she took a .22 rifle and hit 4,772 glass balls out of 5,000 tossed in the air. She could hit a playing card from 90 feet puncturing it at least five times before it hit the ground. It was this display that named free tickets with holes punched in them, Annie Oakleys.