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On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 2:45pm, my wife of 34 years, Rebecca, died in my arms in an emergency room.

The last words we spoke were in perfect synchronization: "I love you with all my heart."

 

 

 

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January 01, 1895 • J Edgar Hoover - in the closet
January 01, 1929 • Joseph Lombardo
January 01, 1936 • Marco D'Amico
January 01, 1942 • Michael Posner
January 02, 1902 • Gerardo "Vito" Gatena, Newark, NJ
January 02, 1940 • Jim Bakker, televangelist, PTL Club, rapist, convict
January 03, 1945 • Stephen Stills, Love the One You're With
January 03, 1951 • Mel Gibson, Peerskill, NY
January 03, 1996 • L Wurf vom Studer Schloss - Atos x Bo
January 04, 1947 • Wolfgang Kruger, Recklinghausen, W.Germany
January 06, 1911 • Alfred Pilotto
January 06, 1959 • Kathy Sledge, Philadelphia, Sister Sledge
January 07, 1900 • Simone Scozzari, Sicily, Italy
January 07, 1917 • Willie Messino
January 07, 1948 • Kenny Loggins, Everett, WA, Your Mama Don't Dance
January 07, 1993 • K Wurf vom Studer Schloss - Clint x Eifer
January 08, 1935 • Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender
January 08, 1937 • Shirley Bassey, Cardiff, Wales, The Name Game
January 08, 1947 • David Bowie, London, Let's Dance
January 09, 1941 • Joan Baez, Staten Island
January 09, 1951 • Crystal Gayle, Paintsville, KY, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (Brenda Gayle Webb)
January 10, 1945 • Rod Stewart, London, Maggie May
January 10, 1953 • Pat Benatar, Brooklyn, Hit Me With Your Best Shot
January 14, 1941 • Faye Dunaway, Bascom, FL, Bonnie & Clyde
January 15, 1929 • Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 1936 • Vincent James Cozzo
January 16, 1943 • Ronnie Milsap, Robinsville, NC, Lost In the 50's
January 17, 1899 • Al Capone, New York City
January 18, 1941 • David Ruffin, Mississippi, Temptations
January 18, 1942 • Muhammad Ali, one of a kind
January 19, 1938 • Phil Everly, Chicago, Everly Brothers
January 19, 1943 • Janis Joplin, Port Arthur, TX, Piece of My Heart
January 19, 1946 • Dolly Parton, Sevierville, TN, 9 to 5
January 19, 1949 • Robert Palmer, England, Addicted To Love
January 21, 1950 • Billy Ocean, Get Into My Car
January 22, 1931 • Sam Cooke, Chicago, IL, You Send Me
January 22, 1959 • Linda Blair, St. Louis, MO, The Exorcist
January 24, 1941 • Neil Diamond, Brooklyn, Forever In Blue Jeans
January 25, 1938 • Etta James, Los Angeles, CA, Tell Mama, Security
January 26, 1925 • Paul Newman, Cleveland, OH, The Hustler, The Color of Money
January 27, 1930 • Bobby Blue Bland, Rosemark, TN, Turn On Your Love Light
January 28, 1910 • Dominic Alaimo, Pittston, PA
January 28, 1925 • Dominic Cortina
January 29, 1924 • John Monteleone
January 29, 1942 • Claudine Longet, France
January 29, 1952 • Barry Sudano, NY
January 29, 1954 • Oprah Winfrey, Kosciusko, MS
January 30, 1946 • Victoria Principal, Japan
January 30, 1951 • Phil Collins, London, Against All Odds
January 30, 1955 • Heiner Isselhorst, Recklinghausen, Germany
January 31, 1932 • Rick Hall, Franklin Co, AL, Fame Studio, Muscle Shoals

February 01, 1934 • Joseph Lamantia
February 01, 1937 • Don Everly, Everly Brothers
February 02, 1942 • Graham Nash, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
February 02, 1947 • Farrah Fawcett, Corpus Christi, TX
February 03, 1950 • Morgan Fairchild, Dallas, TX
February 05, 1848 • Belle Starr
February 05, 1944 • Al Kooper, Brooklyn, keyboards
February 05, 1945 • Bob Marley, Kingston, Jamaica, reggae
February 06, 1910 • Carlos Marcello, Tunisia
February 06, 1912 • Eva Braun, mistress of Adolf Hitler
February 06, 1943 • Fabian Forte, Philadelphia, Turn Me Loose
February 06, 1950 • Natalie Cole, Los Angeles, Pink Cadillac
February 07, 1930 • Frank Schweihs
February 07, 1948 • Jimmy Greenspoon, 3 Dog Night
February 07, 1994 • Atos vom Silberbach
February 08, 1950 • Wolfgang Schreiber, Recklinghausen, Germany
February 09, 1942 • Carole King, Brooklyn, Tapestry
February 09, 1945 • Mia Farrow, Los Angeles, Rosemary's Baby
February 10, 1939 • Roberta Flack, Black Mt, NC, Killing Me Softly
February 11, 1936 • Burt Reynolds, Waycross, GA
February 12, 1945 • Maude Adams, Lulea, Sweden, "Tattoo"
February 15, 1938 • Dominick Basso
February 15, 1951 • Melissa Manchester, Bronx, Bring In the Clowns
February 16, 1940 • Sonny Bono, Detroit, Palm Springs politician
February 17, 1928 • Joseph Spadavecchio
February 17, 1933 • Bobby Lewis, Tossin' & Turnin'
February 17, 1941 • Gene Pitney, Hartford, CT, Town Without Pity
February 17, 1947 • Benny Troy, Newark, NJ.
February 18, 1933 • Yoko Ono, Tokyo, Japan
February 18, 1950 • Cybill Shepherd, Memphis, TN
February 18, 1954 • John Travolta, Englewood, NJ, Grease
February 18, 1957 • Vanna White, Myrtle Beach, SC, Wheel of Fortune
February 19, 1940 • Smokey Robinson, Detroit, MI, a miracle himself
February 19, 1943 • Lou Christie, PA, Lightning Strikes
February 19, 1955 • Margaux Hemingway, Portland, OR
February 20, 1954 • Patty Hearst, San Francisco, CA, Daddy's money talks
February 21, 1910 • Carmine Galante, New York
February 21, 1947 • Tyne Daly, Madison, WI, The Enforcer
February 25, 1952 • Marianne Sommerfeld, Recklinghausen, Germany
February 26, 1928 • Fats Domino, New Orleans, LA, Blueberry Hill
February 26, 1928 • James D'Antonio
February 26, 1932 • Johnny Cash, Kingsland, AR, I Walk The Line
February 26, 1945 • Mitch Ryder, Detroit
February 28, 1906 • Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Brooklyn
February 28, 1943 • Barbara Acklin, Chicago, Love Makes a Woman
February 28, 1948 • Bernadette Peters, Queens
February 29, 1956 • Aileen Wuornos, serial killer
February 29, 1960 • Richard Ramirez, serial killer

March 02, 1950 • Karen Carpenter, CT, We've Only Just Begun
March 03, 1990 • Mac vom Olfener Kirchspiel SchHI AD, Selm, Germany
March 05, 1944 • Bobby Womack, Cleveland, OH, badass guitarist, songwriter
March 06, 1944 • Mary Wilson, Supremes
March 06, 1947 • Kiki Dee, Yorkshire, England, Don't Go Breakin My Heart
March 06, 1994 • Bo vom Wulfener Land, Recklinghausen, Germany
March 07, 1934 • King Curtis, Fort Worth, TX, awesome tenor, Memphis Soul Stew
March 10, 1928 • James Earl Ray, murderer, Dr. Martin Luther King
March 10, 1940 • Dean Torrence, Jan & Dean
March 10, 1940 • Donna Brown, Los Angeles
March 10, 1960 • Bill Daves - famous boat racer
March 12, 1946 • Liza Minnelli, Los Angeles
March 12, 1948 • James Taylor, Boston, You've Got A Friend
March 12, 1957 • Marlon Jackson, Jackson 5
March 13, 1939 • Neil Sedaka, New York, Breakin Up Is Hard To Do
March 14, 1932 • Louis Marino
March 14, 1933 • Quincy Jones, Chicago, IL, producer extraordinaire
March 15, 1941 • Mike Love, Beach Boys
March 16, 1922 • Ernest "Rocky" Infelice
March 16, 1983 • Fanny vom Haardblick SchHIII KKl IIa
March 17, 1908 • Raymond Patriarca, Worcester, MA
March 17, 1934 • Frank Calabrese
March 17, 1944 • John Sebastian, New York, Lovin' Spoonful
March 18, 1933 • Michael Carioscia
March 18, 1939 • Charlie Pride, Sledge, MS
March 18, 1941 • Wilson Pickett, Prattville, AL, Midnight Hour
March 20, 1937 • Jerry Reed, Atlanta, GA, Amos Moses
March 21, 1933 • Frank Panno
March 22, 1943 • George Benson, Pittsburg, PA, On Broadway
March 23, 1953 • Chaka Khan, Great Lakes, IL, Rufus (Yvette Stevens)
March 23, 1954 • Barbel Schwarze, Recklinghausen, Germany
March 24, 1909 • Clyde Champion Barrow, Telice, TX
March 25, 1942 • Aretha Franklin, Memphis, TN, Lady Soul
March 25, 1947 • Elton John, Middlesex, England
March 25, 1976 • Sali Rojas, Havana
March 26, 1944 • Diana Ross, Detroit, Supremes
March 26, 1950 • Teddy Pendergrass, Philadelphia
March 27, 1924 • Sarah Vaughan, Newark, NJ
March 28, 1917 • Rufus Thomas, Collierville, TX, Breakdown, Funky Chicken
March 28, 1927 • James LaPietra
March 30, 1937 • Warren Beatty, Richmond, VA, Bonnie & Clyde
March 30, 1945 • Eric Clapton, Surrey, England
March 31, 1935 • Herb Alpert, Los Angeles, founder A&M Records

April 01, 1916 • Gus Alex
April 01, 1927 • Chris Petti
April 01, 1932 • Debbie Reynolds, El Paso, TX
April 01, 1939 • Ali MacGraw, Pound Ridge, NY
April 01, 1945 • Heather Young, WA
April 02, 1939 • Marvin Gaye, Washington, DC, Hitchhike, Sexual Healing
April 02, 1941 • Leon Russell, keyboards, Mad Dogs & Englishmen
April 02, 1947 • Emmy Lou Harris, Birmingham, AL
April 02, 1962 • Angel Cropper
April 03, 1924 • Marlon Brando, Omaha, NE
April 03, 1942 • Bruce Thurston, NJ
April 03, 1961 • Eddie Murphy, Brooklyn, Richard Pryor's clone
April 04, 1915 • Muddy Waters, bluesman
April 04, 1955 • Marianne Klinger, Recklinghausen, Germany
April 05, 1980 • Barkasse der Hanswurst SchHII VB WH
April 06, 1866 • Butch Cassidy, Circleville, UT
April 06, 1937 • Billy Dee Williams, New York, Lady Sings The Blues
April 06, 1944 • Michelle Phillips, Long Beach, CA, Mamas & Papas
April 06, 1962 • Beate Vollmer, Recklinghausen, Germany
April 07, 1915 • Billie Holiday
April 07, 1948 • John Oates, New York, Rich Girl
April 09, 1926 • Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine
April 09, 1957 • Keith McCready, The Color of Money
April 12, 1940 • Herbie Hancock, keyboards
April 13, 1946 • Al Green, Forest City, AR, Let's Stay Together
April 14, 1935 • Loretta Lynn, Butcher Hollow, KY, Coalminer's Daughter
April 15, 1966 • Samantha Fox, England, Touch Me
April 16, 1935 • Bobby Vinton, Canonsburg, PA, Blue Velvet
April 16, 1939 • Dusty Springfield, London, You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
April 17, 1988 • G Wurf vom Studer Schloss - Gilla, Gitta, Gillo, Gewinn and Glypte
April 18, 1857 • Clarence Darrow, lawyer
April 18, 1982 • Xarras von der Herreneiche
April 19, 1903 • Eliot Ness, Untouchables
April 19, 1932 • Jayne Mansfield, PA, pinup girl
April 20, 1889 • Adolf Hitler, Braunau, Austria
April 20, 1951 • Luther Vandross, On The Wings Of Love
April 23, 1968 • Timothy McVeigh
April 25, 1923 • Albert King, Indianola, MS, Chainsaw, Blues Power
April 25, 1931 • Carmen Peter Bastone
April 26, 1894 • Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuhrer
April 26, 1943 • Gary Wright, Dream Weaver
April 27, 1947 • Ann Peebles, MO, I Can't Stand The Rain
April 27, 1959 • Sheena Easton, Bellshill, Scotland
April 28, 1906 • Tony Accardo, Chicago, IL
April 28, 1941 • Ann-Margaret, Valsjobya, Sweden
April 29, 1944 • James Lavalley
April 30, 1933 • Willie Nelson, TX, On The Road Again

May 01, 1945 • Rita Coolidge, Nashville, TN, the young Delta Lady
May 02, 1946 • Leslie Gore, Tenafly, NJ, It's My Party, Judy's Turn To Cry
May 03, 1934 • Frankie Valli, Newark, NJ, 4 Seasons, Godfather of the 60's (Frank Castelluccio)
May 05, 1938 • Johnnie Taylor, Crawfordsville, AR, Who's Makin Love
May 05, 1942 • Tammy Wynette, Redbay, AL, Stand By Your Man
May 06, 1945 • Bob Seger, Detroit, Silver Bullet Band
May 07, 1939 • Jimmy Ruffin, Temptations
May 08, 1943 • Toni Tennille, Montgomery, AL, the Captain's other half
May 09, 1937 • Dave Prater, Sam & Dave d.4/9/88
May 09, 1947 • Sami Jo
May 09, 1949 • Billy Joel, Bronx, Uptown Girl
May 11, 1941 • Eric Burdon, England, Animals
May 13, 1929 • Burt Bacharach
May 13, 1933 • Peter Difronzo
May 13, 1943 • Mary Wells, Detroit, My Guy, Motown's 1st artist
May 13, 1950 • Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, MI
May 15, 1937 • Trini Lopez, Dallas, TX
May 15, 1938 • Lenny Welch, NJ, Tell It Like It Is
May 16, 1955 • Debra Winger, Columbus, OH, Black Widow
May 16, 1966 • Janet Jackson, a Jackson clone
May 18, 1956 • Sugar Ray Leonard
May 19, 1962 • Fred Lasday
May 20, 1944 • Joe Cocker, England, Mad Dogs and Englishmen
May 20, 1946 • Cher, El Centro, CA, beautiful
May 21, 1912 • Harold Robbins, author extraordinaire
May 21, 1941 • Ronald Isley, Isley Brothers
May 23, 1925 • Frau Miller
May 24, 1941 • Bob Dylan, Duluth, MN, Like A Rolling Stone
May 24, 1944 • Patti LaBelle, Philadelphia, PA, LaBelle
May 24, 1945 • Priscilla Presley, New York
May 24, 1955 • Rosanne Cash, Memphis, TN
May 26, 1948 • Stevie Nicks, CA, Fleetwood Mac
May 26, 1949 • Hank Williams, Jr, Shreveport, LA, Attitude Adjustment
May 27, 1949 • Roland Ignoffo
May 28, 1908 • Ian Fleming, father of James Bond
May 28, 1935 • Wayne Bock
May 28, 1944 • Gladys Knight, Atlanta, GA, Midnight Train to Georgia
May 28, 1945 • John Fogerty, Credence Clearwater Revival, Proud Mary
May 30, 1964 • Wynona Judd, The Judds
May 31, 1930 • Clint Eastwood, San Francisco, Dirty Harry

June 01, 1926 • Marilyn Monroe
June 01, 1934 • Pat Boone, Jacksonville, FL, white bucks
June 01, 1956 • Lisa Hartman, beautiful
June 01, 1986 • E Wurf vom Studer Schloss - Edel, Eifer, Engel, Etta, Elan and Elf
June 02, 1740 • Marquis de Sade, a little rough on women
June 02, 1952 • Ellen Kruger, Recklinghausen, Germany
June 03, 1942 • Curtis Mayfield, Chicago, IL, Impressions
June 03, 1948 • Albert Vena
June 05, 1940 • Raymond Tominello
June 06, 1936 • Levi Stubbs, 4 Tops, Same Old Song
June 07, 1960 • Prince
June 08, 1933 • Joan Rivers, Brooklyn
June 08, 1940 • Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, NJ, These Boots Are Made For Walkin
June 08, 1944 • Boz Scaggs, Dallas
June 09, 1915 • Les Paul, guitarist, father of the electric guitar
June 09, 1934 • Jackie Wilson, Detroit, MI, Higher & Higher
June 10, 1933 • F. Lee Bailey, attorney
June 12, 1951 • Ray Stone, a great friend
June 13, 1940 • Bobby Freeman, San Francisco, Do You Want to Dance?
June 15, 1954 • Jim Belushi, Chicago, K-9
June 17, 1928 • James Brown, Pulaski, TN, Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business
June 18, 1942 • Paul McCartney, Liverpool
June 18, 1943 • Virgil Cimino
June 20, 1924 • Chet Atkins, guitar picker
June 20, 1945 • Anne Murray, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Snowbird
June 20, 1945 • Brian Wilson, Beach Boys
June 20, 1948 • Gene England, Bowling Green, Kentucky
June 20, 1949 • Lionel Ritchie, Tuskegee, AL, Deep River Women
June 20, 1953 • Cyndi Lauper, Brooklyn, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
June 22, 1903 • John Dillinger, Indianapolis, IN
June 22, 1936 • Kris Kristofferson, Brownsville, TX
June 22, 1947 • Don Henley, Eagles, Dirty Laundry
June 22, 1948 • Todd Rundgren
June 22, 1949 • Lindsay Wagner
June 23, 1978 • Anja Isselhorst, Recklinghausen
June 24, 1947 • Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac
June 25, 1937 • Eddie Floyd, Montgomery, AL, Knock On Wood
June 25, 1945 • Carly Simon, New York, You're So Vain
June 25, 1991 • Corey vom Adelhertz
June 29, 1945 • Little Eva Boyd, Bellhaven, NC, Locomotion
June 29, 1979 • Buffy von Wanne-Eickel SchHIII KKl IIa AD

July 01, 1932 • Wolfman Jack, world famous DJ
July 01, 1945 • Deborah Harry, Miami, FL, Blondie, Heart of Glass
July 02, 2001 • Tzar vom Adelhertz
July 03, 1940 • Fontella Bass, St.Louis, MO, Rescue Me
July 04, 1902 • Meyer Lansky, Grodno, Russia
July 05, 1950 • Huey Lewis, Heart of Rock n Roll
July 06, 1940 • Gene Chandler, Duke of Earl
July 06, 1946 • Sylvester Stallone, New York, Rambo MCLXVII
July 07, 1914 • John P. Cerone, Sr.
July 07, 1940 • Ringo Starr, Liverpool
July 07, 1959 • Jessica Hahn, Jim Bakker's rape victim, Playboy model
July 09, 1954 • Debbie Sledge, Philadelphia, Sister Sledge
July 12, 1948 • Ulrich Knappe, Recklinghausen, Germany
July 13, 1934 • Robert C. Salerno
July 13, 1956 • Al Goff
July 15, 1946 • Linda Ronstadt, Tucson, AZ
July 16, 1939 • William Bell, Memphis, TN, You Don't Miss Your Water
July 17, 1977 • Ina Kruger, Recklinghausen, Germany
July 18, 1939 • Dion DiMucci, The Wanderer, Runaround Sue
July 18, 1941 • Martha Reeves, AL, Dancin' In The Street
July 19, 1814 • Samuel Colt, founder of Colt's Patent Firearms Mfg
July 21, 1943 • Christie McVie, Fleetwood Mac
July 21, 1952 • Robin Williams, Chicago, Good Morning, Viet Nam
July 23, 1945 • Dino Danelli, drummer, Rascals
July 26, 1942 • Dobie Gray, Brookshire, TX, Drift Away
July 26, 1943 • Mick Jagger, Dartford, England
July 27, 1944 • Bobbie Gentry, Chickasaw Co., MS, Ode to Billie Joe
July 28, 1944 • Samuel Bills
July 29, 1983 • B Wurf vom Studer Schloss - Benno, Brix, Britta, Barkasse, Bingo and Banja
July 30, 1941 • Paul Anka, Ottowa, Ontario, Lonely Boy
July 30, 1947 • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Braz, Austria, power, power, more power

August 02, 1941 • Homer Banks, Memphis, TN, We Three
August 02, 1959 • Virginia Scholz - Ms.Ven-Tel
August 04, 1936 • Carmen Migliore
August 04, 1937 • Elsberry Hobbs, Drifters
August 04, 1957 • Mickey Stone - DJ supreme
August 05, 1953 • Samantha Sang, Emotions
August 06, 1902 • Dutch Schultz, Bronx
August 06, 1927 • Andy Warhol
August 06, 1979 • Rolf vom Ravenblack
August 07, 1942 • B.J. Thomas, Hugo, Oklahoma, Hooked On A Feelin'
August 08, 1929 • Mike Castaldo
August 08, 1933 • Joe Tex, Rogers, TX, Skinny Legs 'n All
August 08, 1950 • Willie Hall, Memphis, drummer, Bar-Kays, Isaac Hayes, Blues Bros.
August 09, 1929 • Albert Tocco
August 09, 1935 • Salvatore Bastone
August 09, 1945 • Ken Norton, Ali's punching bag
August 10, 1943 • Ronnie Spector, New York, Ronettes, Be My Baby
August 12, 1944 • Thom Payne, SDPD K9
August 14, 1940 • Dash Crofts, Seals & Crofts, Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl
August 14, 1946 • Larry Graham, Beaumont, TX, Graham Central Station
August 14, 1958 • Loretta Magee, the peanut
August 15, 1966 • Roger Clapp, Doctor DeBug
August 16, 1954 • Monika Schreiber, Recklinghausen, Germany
August 16, 1958 • Madonna (Ciccone), Bay City, MI, Material Girl
August 16, 1970 • Sandra Saladini
August 17, 1892 • Mae West
August 18, 1937 • Robert Redford, Santa Monica, CA
August 19, 1940 • Johnny Nash, I Can See Clearly Now
August 19, 1950 • Margie Joseph
August 20, 1911 • Joseph Sica, Newark, NJ
August 20, 1921 • Jacqueline Susann, Valley of The Dolls
August 20, 1938 • Salvatore DeLaurentis
August 20, 1942 • Issac Hayes, Covington, TN, Hot Buttered Soul
August 21, 1938 • Kenny Rogers, Houston, TX, Coward of The County
August 21, 1944 • Jackie DeShannon, KY, Son of A Preacher Man
August 22, 1917 • John Lee Hooker, Mississippi, bluesman
August 24, 1902 • Carlo Gambino, Palermo, Sicily
August 25, 1930 • Sean Connery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 007
August 27, 1942 • Daryl Dragon, Los Angeles, Love Will Keep Us Together
August 28, 1928 • Charles Parrilli
August 28, 1943 • David Soul
August 29, 1958 • Michael Jackson, Gary, IN
August 31, 1937 • Michael Gurgone

September 01, 1933 • Conway Twitty, Friar's Point, MS
September 01, 1946 • Barry Gibb, Manchester, England, BeeGees
September 01, 1957 • Gloria Estefan, Miami Sound Machine
September 01, 1982 • Fax vom Swartzen Vogel
September 02, 1946 • Billy Preston, Houston, TX, keyboards, awesome
September 05, 1940 • Racquel Welch, Chicago
September 05, 1946 • Buddy Miles, drummer, Buddy Miles Express
September 05, 1947 • Rebecca - the love of my life
September 06, 1936 • Buddy Holly, Peggy Sue
September 06, 1987 • Flit vom Studer Schloss
September 07, 1934 • Little Milton Campbell, Inverness, MS, If Walls Could Talk
September 09, 1941 • Otis Redding, Dawson, GA, Respect, Dock of The Bay
September 09, 1945 • Dee Dee Sharp, Mashed Potatoes
September 09, 1957 • Heather Thomas, Greenwich, CT, simply beautiful
September 10, 1946 • Gordon Rudd, STAX engineer
September 10, 1971 • Tracy Tucker - convict
September 11, 1941 • Raymond Jackson - We Three
September 12, 1943 • Maria Muldaur, Greenwich Village, NY
September 12, 1944 • Barry White, Galveston, TX
September 13, 1941 • David Clayton-Thomas, Blood Sweat & Tears
September 13, 1944 • Jacqueline Bisset, Weybridge, England
September 13, 1956 • Joni Sledge, Philadelphia, Sister Sledge
September 14, 1911 • Frank Valenti, Rochester, New York
September 16, 1925 • B.B. King, Itta Bena, MS
September 16, 1928 • Larry Petitt
September 16, 1973 • Wes Garland, UNIX genius
September 18, 1933 • Robert Blake, Nutley, NJ, Baretta, Fred's mounting bracket
September 19, 1940 • Paul Williams, Omaha, NE
September 19, 1945 • Freda Payne, Detroit, Band of Gold
September 19, 1949 • Twiggy, chest (Leslie Hornby)
September 20, 1934 • Sophia Loren, Rome, Circus
September 21, 1947 • Stephen King, author, nightmare vendor
September 22, 1904 • Joseph Valachi, New York
September 22, 1942 • June Dunn
September 22, 1956 • Debbie Boone, Hackensack, NJ
September 22, 1960 • Joan Jett, Philadelphia
September 23, 1946 • Sandy England
September 23, 1926 • John Coltrane
September 23, 1930 • Ray Charles, Albany, GA, What'd I Say (Ray Charles Robinson)
September 23, 1949 • Bruce Springsteen Freehold, NJ
September 24, 1942 • Linda Eastman McCartney, Wings
September 26, 1948 • Olivia Newton-John, Cambridge, England
September 27, 1947 • Cheryl Tiegs, MN
September 28, 1934 • Brigitte Bardot, Paris, France
September 29, 1922 • Gino "Blackie" Martin
September 29, 1935 • Jerry Lee Lewis, Ferriday, LA, the Killer
September 30, 1926 • Donald Angelini
September 30, 1931 • Angie Dickinson, Kulm, ND
September 30, 1935 • Johnny Mathis, San Francisco
September 30, 1943 • Marilyn McCoo, Jersey City, NJ

October 01, 1910 • Bonnie Parker, Rowena, TX
October 01, 1931 • Michael Malmenato
October 01, 1949 • Thomas Forliano
October 02, 1925 • Michael Biancofiori
October 03, 1941 • Chubby Checker, Philadelphia
October 05, 1943 • Frank Derosa
October 06, 1913 • Leonard Patrick
October 07, 1955 • Jurgen Knappe, Recklinghausen, Germany
October 08, 1936 • Rona Barrett
October 08, 1941 • Jesse Jackson
October 08, 1943 • Chevy Chase, New York
October 09, 1940 • John Lennon
October 09, 1945 • Jeannie C. Riley, TX, Harper Valley PTA
October 10, 1891 • Stefano Magaddino, Castellammare, Sicily
October 10, 1958 • Tanya Tucker, Seminole, TX
October 10, 1970 • Ramona Klinger, Recklinghausen, Germany
October 11, 1949 • Daryl Hall, Pottstown, PA, Rich Girl
October 12, 1919 • Vincent I. Solano
October 12, 1932 • Joseph Pascucci
October 12, 1935 • Sam Moore, Sam & Dave
October 13, 1941 • Art Garfunkel, New York, Bridge Over Troubled Waters
October 13, 1959 • Marie Osmond, Ogden, UT, One Bad Apple
October 15, 1945 • Penny Marshall, New York
October 15, 1968 • Julio Manso, Havana
October 16, 1946 • Suzanne Somers, San Bruno, CA
October 18, 1926 • Chuck Berry, St.Louis, MO
October 20, 1932 • Joseph Andriacci
October 21, 1939 • Robert Bellavia
October 21, 1903 • Melvin Purvis, Hoover's ho.
October 21, 1941 • Steve Cropper, Willow Springs, AR, the MGs
October 24, 1930 • The Big Bopper, Chantilly Lace
October 24, 1973 • Tamarra Klinger, Recklinghausen, Germany
October 25, 1934 • Joseph Difronzo
October 26, 1948 • Jaclyn Smith, Houston
October 26, 1983 • Clint vom Hamskamp SchHIII
October 26, 1984 • Cella vom Studer Schloss
October 28, 1936 • Charlie Daniels, Devil Went Down to Georgia
October 29, 1948 • Kate Jackson, Birmingham, AL
October 30, 1920 • Angelo LaPietra
October 30, 1939 • Grace Slick, Chicago, Jefferson Airplane
October 30, 1945 • Henry Winkler, New York, the Fonz

November 03, 1922 • Charles Bronson, Ehrenfeld, PA (Charles Buchinski)
November 03, 1940 • Sonny Rhodes
November 03, 1949 • Larry Holmes, boxer
November 05, 1931 • Ike Turner, Clarksdale, MS, awesome
November 05, 1942 • Paul Simon, Newark, NJ, Bridge Over Troubled Waters
November 06, 1948 • Glenn Frey, Detroit, Eagles
November 06, 1952 • Artur Schwarze, Recklinghausen, Germany
November 08, 1947 • Minnie Ripperton, Chicago, IL
November 08, 1949 • Bonnie Raitt, Los Angeles, CA
November 08, 1954 • Rickie Lee Jones, Chicago
November 09, 1941 • Tom Fogerty, Credence Clearwater Revival
November 09, 1952 • Lou Ferrigno, Brooklyn, The Hulk
November 10, 1945 • Donna Fargo, Mt.Airy, NC
November 10, 1947 • John Lee Wright, Columbus, OH - family friend
November 10, 1959 • MacKenzie Phillips, Alexandria, VA
November 11, 1929 • LaVern Baker, Chicago, I Cried A Tear
November 11, 1934 • Charles Manson, Cincinnati, OH, a Goddamn animal
November 12, 1944 • Booker T. Jones, keyboards, Green Onions, Hip Hug Her
November 12, 1953 • Steve Potts, Memphis, TN
November 14, 1897 • Paul Ricca, Naples, Italy
November 15, 1914 • Santo Trafficante, Tampa, FL
November 15, 1932 • Petula Clark, Ewell, Surrey, England, Downtown
November 16, 1957 • Jo Jo Walker, Memphis, noted Memphis R&B historian, golden voice
November 17, 1938 • Gordon Lightfoot, Orillia, Ontario
November 17, 1952 • Ace Moreland, OK
November 17, 1981 • Paff von der Herreneiche
November 20, 1956 • Bo Derek, Long Beach, CA, perfect 10 (Cathleen Collins)
November 21, 1897 • Vito Genovese, Risigliano, Italy
November 21, 1924 • Joseph Petitt
November 21, 1941 • David Porter, Hayes and Porter
November 21, 1941 • Dr. John, Mac Rebennack
November 21, 1945 • Goldie Hawn, Washington D.C.
November 22, 1902 • Joe Adonis, Montemarano, Italy
November 22, 1943 • Billie Jean King, CA
November 22, 1958 • Jamie Lee Curtis, Los Angeles
November 22, 1942 • Kenny Jeremiah, New York, Soul Survivors
November 24, 1897 • Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Sicily, Italy
November 24, 1941 • Donald "Duck" Dunn, Memphis, TN, MGs
November 24, 1941 • Wayne Jackson, West Memphis, AR, Mar Keys

November 24, 1944 • Roger Pace, Baltimore, "Mr. Blue Eyed Soul"
November 24, 1946 • Ted Bundy, Burlington, VT, serial sex murderer
November 24, 1956 • Konni Knappe, Recklinghausen, Germany
November 26, 1899 • Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Saxony, Germany
November 26, 1938 • Ann Bullock ("Tina Turner"), Nutbush, TN ("Ditta")
November 27, 1935 • Al Jackson, Jr., Memphis, TN, the MGs d.10/1/75
November 27, 1941 • Eddie Rabbitt, Brooklyn, Drivin' My Life Away
November 28, 1939 • Berry Gordy, Jr, Motown
November 30, 1929 • Dick Clark, Mt. Vernon, NY
November 30, 1944 • Luther Ingram, Jackson, MS, My Honey And Me, If Lovin You Is Wrong
November 30, 1953 • June Pointer, Pointer Sisters

December 01, 1907 • Joseph Aiuppa
December 01, 1937 • Lou Rawls, Chicago, IL
December 01, 1940 • Richard Pryor, Peoria, IL
December 01, 1945 • Bette Midler, Patterson, NJ, The Rose
December 04, 1926 • Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, LA, Get Out My Life, Woman
December 05, 1935 • Little Richard, Macon, GA
December 06, 1941 • Richard Speck, Kirkwood, Illinois
December 07, 1947 • Gregg Allman, Nashville, TN
December 08, 1925 • Jimmy Smith, PA, organist, monster
December 08, 1939 • Jerry Butler, Sunflower, MS, Only The Strong Survive
December 09, 1922 • Redd Foxx, St. Louis, MO (John Sanford)
December 09, 1957 • Donny Osmond, Ogden, UT
December 11, 1926 • Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, Montgomery, AL, Hound Dog
December 11, 1944 • Brenda Lee, Atlanta, GA
December 11, 1954 • Jermaine Jackson, Gary, IN
December 12, 1941 • Dionne Warwick, East Orange, NJ
December 13, 1928 • John Difronzo, Sr.
December 13, 1941 • James Marcello
December 14, 1932 • Charlie Rich, Forest City, AR, Mohair Sam
December 14, 1942 • James Inendino
December 14, 1946 • Patty Duke, Brooklyn, NY
December 15, 1913 • Louis Parrilli
December 15, 1921 • Sam Carlisi
December 15, 1946 • Carmine Appice, drummer, Vanilla Fudge, Rod Stewart
December 16, 1952 • John "Mario" Rainone
December 18, 1948 • Edmund Emil Kemper, mass murderer, necrophiliac
December 20, 1927 • Frank Demonte
December 21, 1937 • Jane Fonda, New York City
December 21, 1940 • Frank Zappa, Baltimore, MD
December 21, 1942 • Carla Thomas, Memphis, TN, Baby, Tramp
December 21, 1957 • Gwen Pybus - an angel.
December 22, 1949 • Maurice Gibb, Manchester, England, BeeGees
December 22, 1949 • Robin Gibb, Manchester, England, BeeGees
December 23, 1927 • Joseph Grieco
December 24, 1905 • Howard Hughes
December 25, 1946 • Jimmy Buffett
December 25, 1948 • Barbara Mandrell, Houston, TX
December 26, 1939 • Phil Spector
December 27, 1943 • Gary Gagliano
December 27, 1965 • Dagmar Heide, Recklinghausen, Germany
December 29, 1965 • Jamie Donile, the angel from USRobotics
December 30, 1864 • Max Emil Fredrick von Stephanitz - The founder of the German Shepherd Dog.
December 30, 1960 • Verice England
December 30, 1985 • Mikesha Best, DC - good DJ
December 31, 1860 • General John T. Thompson, inventor of the Thompson Submachine Gun
December 31, 1948 • Donna Summers, Boston, MA, Dim All The Lights (LaDonna Gaines)
December 31, 1970 • Todd Phipps

Soul Music Died

in chronological order

December 10, 1967 • Otis Redding died in plane crash, Lake Monona, WI. (STAX Records)
December 10, 1967 • Ronnie Caldwell died in plane crash, Lake Monona, WI. (STAX Records - Bar-Kays)
December 10, 1967 • Jimmy King died in plane crash, Lake Monona, WI. (STAX Records - Bar-Kays)
December 10, 1967 • Phalon Jones died in plane crash, Lake Monona, WI. (STAX Records - Bar-Kays)
December 10, 1967 • Carl Cunningham died in plane crash, Lake Monona, WI. (STAX Records - Bar-Kays)
February 24, 1970 • Darrell Banks died (STAX Records) •
November 10, 1972 • Raymond Jackson died (STAX Records) •
January 20, 1974 Charles Packy Axton died (STAX Records)
October 01, 1975 • Al Jackson Jr. died (STAX Records) •
April 09, 1988 • Dave Prater died (STAX Records)
December 21, 1992 • Albert King died (STAX Records) •
October 26, 1997 • Ollie "Nightingale" Hoskins died (STAX Records) •
May 31, 2000 • Johnnie Taylor died (STAX Records) •
December 19, 2000 • Roebuck "Pops" Staples died (STAX Records) •
December 15, 2001 • Rufus Thomas died (STAX Records) •
February 08, 2003 • Ace Moreland died (Kingsnake Records) •
April 03, 2003 • Homer Banks died (STAX Records) •
February 24, 2004 • Estelle Axton died (STAX Records) •
December 20, 2004 • Son Seals died •
August 04, 2005 • Milton Campbell died •
December 10, 2005 • Richard Pryor died •
January 19, 2006 • Wilson Pickett died •
February 01, 2006 • Ronnie Capone died (STAX Records) •
June 06, 2006 • Billy Preston died •
December 25, 2006 • James Brown died •
March 19, 2007 • Luther Ingram died (STAX Records) •
December 12, 2007 • Ike Turner died •
August 10, 2008 • Isaac Hayes died (STAX Records) •
January 20, 2012 • Etta James died •
April 12, 2012 • Andrew Love died (STAX Records) •
May 01, 2012 • Skip Pitts died (STAX Records) •
May 13, 2012 • Duck Dunn died (STAX Records) •
December 16, 2014 • Wendy Rene died (STAX Records) •
April 14, 2015 • Percy Sledge died

 

• I knew, recorded, played, and/or worked with all of these great soul people.

They were very special to me.

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January 01, 1934 • Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
January 03, 2012 • DMV crisis.
January 04, 1964 • Mary Sullivan, 19, 13th Boston Strangler victim, found murdered.
January 06, 1933 • Clyde escaped ambush, killing Investigators Malcom Davis and Fred Bradbury, Dallas, TX.
January 06, 2006 • Lou Rawls died.
January 07, 1946 • William Heirens abducted for ransom and murdered 6 year old Suzanne Degnan, Chicago, IL.
January 08, 1935 • Doc Barker captured by FBI, Chicago, IL, Russell Gibson, member of Barker-Karpis Gang, killed by FBI during shoot out.
January 08, 1973 • Cynthia Schall murdered by Edmund Emil Kemper.
January 09, 1933 • Bonnie and Clyde held policeman Thomas Persell hostage.
January 09, 1958 • Elmer "Trigger" Burke died in the electric chair.
January 09, 1991 • Aileen Wournos arrested.
January 09, 1996 • Captain died. A wonderful parrot, about 18 years old.
January 10, 1926 • Henry Spingola, ally of the Gennas, shot & killed by Capone gunmen Chicago, IL.
January 10, 2000 • Second stroke. Diagnosed with CLL (cancer).
January 11, 1957 • Jack Gilbert Graham executed in the gas chamber, Colorado Penitentiary.
January 12, 1928 • George "Machine Gun" Kelly arrested Tulsa, OK, Prohibition Act.
January 12, 1928 • Henry Judd Gray and Ruth Brown Snyder, murderers, executed, Sing Sing Prison.
January 14, 1938 • John Henry Seadlund arrested for kidnapping & murder at Santa Anita Racetrack, CA, and was later electrocuted.
January 14, 1996 • The "mother" died.
January 15, 1921 • Doc Barker arrested Muskogee, OK, attempted bank burglary, using alias Claud Dale.
January 15, 1931 • Baby Face Nelson robbed jewelry store, Chicago, IL, arrested, sentenced 1 year to life.
January 15, 1934 • John Dillinger and John Hamilton allegedly robbed 1st Nat'l. Bank, East Chicago, IN, for $20,376.
January 15, 1949 • Body of "Black Dahlia" murder victim found, Los Angeles, CA.
January 15, 1978 • Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, killed by Ted Bundy, Tallahassee, FL.
January 16, 1934 • Bonnie and Clyde broke Ray Hamilton, Joe Palmer, Hilton Bybee, J.B. French and Henry Methvin out of Eastham Prison Farm, killing a guard, Major Crowson.
January 16, 1935 • Ma Barker and Fred Barker killed at Lake Weir, Oklawaha, FL.
January 16, 1936 • Albert Fish, kidnapper, cannibal, executed, Sing Sing Prison.
January 17, 1934 • Doc Barker, Fred Barker, Alvin Karpis, Volney Davis, Fred Goetz, Bill Weaver and Harry Campbell kidnapped Edward G. Bremer, Minneapolis, MN, for $200,000. ransom.
January 17, 1977 • Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, first US execution since 1967.
January 18, 1933 • Odell Chambless surrendered to Dallas police.
January 20, 1934 • Bonnie and Clyde robbed bank, Lancaster, TX.
January 21, 1980 • Blanche Wright, Robert Young shot Felipe Rodriguez, shot and killed Martha Navas, Luis Martin, Bronx. 2 weeks later they murdered Sam Nevins, Young killed. Wright sentenced to 18-life and 15-life.
January 22, 1964 • Meyer Lansky opens new casino in the Bahamas.
January 23, 1948 • Caryl Chessman arrested, Los Angeles, CA.
January 24, 1925 • Johnny Torrio shotgunned by Hymie Weiss, Bugs Moran, and Vincent Drucci, Chicago, IL.
January 24, 1935 • First beer in cans is sold.
January 24, 1989 • Ted Bundy electrocuted, Starke, FL - he finally buckled up.
January 25, 1934 • John Dillinger, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley and Jim Clark arrested in Tucson, AZ, on fugitive charges.
January 25, 1947 • Al Capone, age 48, died from brain hemorrhage, Palm Island, FL.
January 25, 1971 • Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie VanHouten convicted, sentenced to death - another farce.
January 26, 1962 • Lucky Luciano died of a heart attack, Naples, Italy.
January 27, 1980 • Paul McCartney released after 10 days, possession of marijuana, Tokyo, Japan, was ordered never to return to that country.
January 28, 1958 • Charles Starkweather murdered Velda, Marion, and Betty Jean Bartlett, Lincoln, NE.
January 30, 1921 • Doc Barker, using alias Bob Barker, imprisoned State Penitentiary, McAlester OK, for robbery.
January 30, 1933 • Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
January 30, 1939 • Hitler announces he will exterminate the Jewish race in event of war.
January 30, 1958 • Charles Starkweather shot and killed Robert Jensen and Carol King, Lincoln, NE, later that day killing Mr. and Mrs. C. Lauer Ward and Lillian Fenci.
January 30, 1977 • Christine Freund killed by Son of Sam, NYC.

February 01, 1900 • The most lavish and famous brothel in the US, the Everleigh Club, owned by Ada and Minna Everleigh, opened in Chicago.
February 01, 1920 • The first armored car is introduced.
February 01, 1934 • Frank Hamer, ex-Texas Ranger, hired to hunt Bonnie and Clyde, for $180./month. Gave up $500./month employment to do so.
February 01, 1958 • Charles Starkweather shot and killed Merle Collison, Doublas, WY.
February 01, 1959 • Penny Bjorkland murdered August Norry, Daly City, CA.
February 01, 1974 • Lynda Ann Healy, first Bundy murder victim, abducted, Seattle, WA.
February 02, 1932 • Clyde Barrow paroled from Eastham Prison Farm.
February 02, 1995 • Eifer vom Studer Schloss died.
February 03, 1889 • Belle Starr shot and killed, Briartown, OK.
February 04, 1928 • Edward Hickman, kidnapper, murderer, hanged, San Quentin Prison.
February 04, 1976 • Received my first 1921 Colt Thompson machinegun.
February 05, 1973 • Rosalind Thorpe, Alice Lui, shot, murdered by Edmund Emil Kemper.
February 06, 1967 • Cassius Clay d. Ernie Terrell, 15 rounds, Houston.
February 07, 1904 • Luther Holbert and wife, a black couple, convicted of murder, are burned alive by a mob in Doddsville, MS.
February 07, 1934 • $200,000. ransom paid to Doc Barker and gang for Edward G. Bremer.
February 07, 1964 • The Beatles arrive in the US for the first time, New York City. Beatlemania officially begins.
February 08, 2003 • Ace Moreland died.
February 09, 1913 • David Rucker, a black man, is soaked with oil and burned alive by a mob of 1000 whites at the courthouse, Houston, TX.
February 09, 1971 • 6.4 earthquake shakes Los Angeles, 64 killed.
February 10, 1922 • Doc Barker imprisoned State Penitentiary, McAlester, OK, for murder, sentenced to life.
February 10, 1946 • Lucky Luciano deported to Italy.
February 11, 1928 • George "Machine Gun" Kelly imprisoned Leavenworth Penitentiary, possession of liquor.
February 11, 1932 • Pretty Boy Floyd escaped police trap, Tulsa, OK.
February 12, 1913 • Fredrick Pulin is the last person to be executed at Clinton Prison, Dannemora, NY, by electrocution.
February 12, 1918 • Jim McIlherron, a black man, murderer, is dragged from a train and burned alive by a mob of 1200 white people, Estill Springs, TN.
February 13, 1936 • Machine Gun Jack McGurn, shot & killed, Chicago, IL.
February 14, 1929 • St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Chicago, IL.
February 14, 1993 • Clint vom Hamskamp SchHIII, died.
February 15, 1902 • Chicago's Jim Roofer opens phony betting parlor.
February 15, 1926 • Urazio Tropea, a Genna ally, shot to death, Chicago, IL.
February 15, 1978 • Leon Spinks d. Muhammad Ali, 15 rounds, Las Vegas.
February 16, 1909 • Professional New York thief, Leslie Coombs, sentenced to electric chair, St. Lawrence County, NY.
February 16, 1980 • Stephen Judy, mass murderer, sentenced to death.
February 17, 1932 • Baby Face Nelson escaped State Penitentiary, Joliet, IL.
February 17, 1934 • Bonnie and Clyde escaped police and National Guard dragnet, Cookson Hills, OK.
February 18, 1963 • Gertrude Gruen assaulted by Boston Strangler, escapes death.
February 18, 1973 • Frank Costello, Mafia syndicate power, died.
February 19, 1920 • Doc Barker arrested Joplin, MO, for jailbreak in Tulsa, OK, returned to Tulsa.
February 19, 1934 • Bonnie, Clyde, Mary O'Dare, Ray Hamilton, Henry Methvin and James Mullen robbed the National Guard Armory, Ranger, TX.
February 20, 1976 • Muhammad Ali KO Jean-Pierre Coopman, 5 rounds, San Juan.
February 20, 2001 • *New Teef Day* - a disaster.
February 24, 1953 • Elmer "Trigger" Burke shot and killed George Goll, New York City.
February 24, 1964 • Cassius Clay KO Sonny Liston, 7 rounds, Miami Beach.
February 25, 1925 • John Dillinger caught gambling by guards, 30 days added to sentence, Pendleton Reformatory, IN.
February 25, 1926 • Alvin Karpis imprisoned State Industrial Reformatory, Hutchinson, KS, for second degree burglary.
February 25, 1982 • Barkasse der Hanswurst - VB, Jacksonville, FL.
February 25, 1985 • Rolf vom Ravenblack victimized by Continental Airlines.
February 26, 1982 • Barkasse der Hanswurst - WH, Jacksonville, FL.
February 27, 1982 • Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta.
February 29, 1960 • Melvin Purvis shot himself in the head with a .45.

March 01, 1924 • Frank "Jelly" Nash sentenced to 25 years, Leavenworth, KS, for assaulting Mail custodian.
March 01, 1932 • Bruno Richard Hauptmann kidnapped and murdered Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
March 01, 1935 • Adam Richetti indicted, 4 counts 1st degree murder, Kansas City, MO.
March 02, 1930 • Buck Barrow escaped Eastham Prison Farm, TX.
March 03, 1934 • John Dillinger escaped jail, Crown Point, IN, using a wooden gun.
March 04, 1944 • Louis "Lepke" Buchalter electrocuted, Sing Sing Prison.
March 04, 1944 • Louis Capone electrocuted, Sing Sing Prison.
March 04, 1944 • Mendy Weiss electrocuted, Sing Sing Prison.
March 04, 1959 • Carrol Jackson and daughter Janet, found, murdered by Melvin Rees.
March 05, 2018 • Gwen called!
March 06, 1934 • Barrow Gang members Ray Hamilton and Mary O'Dare left for Texas.
March 06, 1934 • John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Homer Van Meter, John Hamilton, Eddie Green, and Tommy Carroll robbed Security Nat'l. Bank, Sioux Falls, SD, for $49,000.
March 06, 1978 • Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by sniper, GA.
March 07, 1936 • Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland.
March 07, 1993 • Mac vom Olfener Kirchspiel, SchHI 99-84-97 Steinerkreuz.
March 08, 1930 • Pretty Boy Floyd, using alias Frank Mitchell, arrested Akron, OH.
March 08, 1952 • Albert Anastasia murdered Arnold Schuster, New York City.
March 08, 1968 • Raymond Patriarca sentenced to 5 years for conspiracy.
March 08, 1971 • Joe Frazier d. Muhammad Ali, 15 rounds, New York.
March 08, 1977 • Virginia Voskerichian killed by Son of Sam, NYC.
March 08, 1981 • Stephen Judy, mass murderer, electrocuted.
March 08, 1993 • Kris vom Studer Schloss died.
March 09, 1929 • Alvin Karpis escaped State Industrial Reformatory, Hutchinson, KS.
March 09, 1929 • Pretty Boy Floyd arrested Kansas City, MO.
March 09, 1932 • Adam Richetti arrested, bank robbery, Sulphur, OK, freed on $15,000 bond, jumped bail.
March 09, 1953 • Barbara Graham beat elderly Mrs. Monohan to death, Burbank, CA.
March 09, 1963 • Mary Brown, 69, raped, beaten, stabbed by Boston Strangler.
March 09, 1985 • Barkasse der Hanswurst - SchHII, Citra, FL.
March 10, 1934 • Bonnie, Clyde, Joe Palmer and Henry Methvin returned to Dallas for a family reunion, escaping police chase.
March 10, 1969 • James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's killer, sentenced to 99 years.
March 10, 2018 • Gwen came to visit!
March 11, 1930 • Bonnie smuggles .32 Colt to Clyde in Waco jail. Clyde escapes.
March 11, 1930 • Pretty Boy Floyd robbed bank, Sylvania, OH.
March 11, 2015 • Jimmy Greenspoon died.
March 12, 1980 • John Wayne Gacy found guilty of murdering 33, Chicago, IL.
March 13, 1901 • John Henderson, a black man accused of murder, is dragged from the Corsicana, TX jail by a mob of 5000, tied to stake and burned alive. Local jury later commended the mob for its act.
March 13, 1918 • Jack "Legs" Diamond is arrested for robbery, charge dismissed, New York City.
March 13, 1934 • John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Homer Van Meter, John Hamilton, Eddie Green, and Tommy Carroll robbed First Nat'l. Bank of Mason City, IA, for $52,000. Dillinger and Hamilton wounded.
March 13, 1964 • Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death in Queens as 40 neighbors watch.
March 14, 1927 • George "Machine Gun" Kelly imprisoned State Prison, Santa Fe, NM, for violation of Prohibition Act.
March 14, 1931 • Inmates riot over food, Joliet State Prison, IL.
March 14, 1964 • Jack Ruby found guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder, Dallas, TX.
March 15, 1900 • Al 'the Owl' Polizzi arrives in the US from Sicily.
March 15, 1957 • Burton Abbott, murderer, died in San Quentin gas chamber.
March 15, 1992 • Corey vom Adelhertz arrived.
March 16, 1935 • Hitler orders German rearmament in violation of Versailles Treaty.
March 16, 1956 • Richard Carpenter, murderer, electrocuted, Illinois State Prison, Joliet IL.
March 17, 1906 • William Carr, a black man, accused of stealing a cow, is hanged by 30 white vigilantes, Plaquemine, LA.
March 17, 1930 • Al Capone released after 10 mo. from Eastern Penitentiary, PA, for good behavior.
March 18, 1930 • Clyde recaptured, Middleton OH, and returned to jail, Waco, TX.
March 18, 1972 • Wedding Day
March 19, 1934 • John Dillinger escaped FBI trap, St.Paul, MN.
March 19, 1943 • Frank Nitti committed suicide after Grand Jury indictment, Chicago, IL.
March 19, 1960 • Sharon Kinne, 19, shot, killed husband, blaming it on her 2 1/2 year old daughter, Kansas City, MO.
March 19, 1987 • Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn.
March 20, 1899 • Martha Place, 1st woman executed by electrocution, NY.
March 20, 1931 • Fred Barker paroled from Kansas State Penitentiary.
March 20, 1934 • Fred Goetz killed by Barker-Karpis Gang.
March 21, 1959 • Mildred and Susan Jackson, found, murdered by Melvin Rees.
March 21, 1969 • Jane Mixer found in shopping bag, victim of Norman Collins.
March 22, 1932 • Bonnie arrested Kaufman, TX, robbery and car theft, Clyde escaped.
March 22, 1933 • Buck Barrow receives pardon from Huntsville Penitentiary.
March 22, 1967 • Cassius Clay KO Zora Folley, 7 rounds, New York.
March 23, 1930 • Alvin Karpis arrested using alias Raymond Hadley, Kansas City, MO, for larceny-auto, and safe blowing.
March 23, 1931 • Pretty Boy Floyd escaped police trap, Kansas City, MO.
March 23, 1933 • German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
March 24, 1919 • Jack "Legs" Diamond is arrested for deserting the US Army and stealing company funds, imprisoned Leavenworth, KS.
March 24, 1975 • Muhammad Ali KO Chuck Wepner, 15 rounds, Cleveland.
March 24, 1990 • Barry and Jackie Anniversary
March 25, 1930 • Alvin Karpis imprisoned State Industrial Reformatory, Hutchinson, KS.
March 25, 1931 • Pretty Boy Floyd killed Wallace & William Ash.
March 25, 1932 • Clyde Barrow and Ray Hamilton robbed Sims Oil Co., Dallas, TX, for $300.
March 25, 1969 • Maralynn Skelton, 16, found, murder victim of Norman Collins.
March 26, 1916 • Robert Stroud, "Birdman of Alcatraz", stabbed and killed prison guard, Leavenworth, KS.
March 27, 1929 • Al Capone arrested for contempt, Chicago, IL.
March 27, 1972 • Angela Davis, trial for murder & kidnapping, San Jose, CA.
March 29, 1886 • Coca-Cola is created, with cocaine.
March 29, 1966 • Cassius Clay d. George Chuvalo, 15 rounds, Toronto.
March 31, 1934 • John Dillinger escaped FBI raid, St.Paul, MN.

April 01, 1924 • Adolf Hitler sentenced to 5 years, involvement in Beer-Hall Putsch.
April 01, 1934 • Bonnie, Clyde, and Henry Methvin killed 2 State Police, Grapevine, TX, escaping to Oklahoma.
April 02, 1936 • Bruno Richard Hauptmann, kidnapper, murderer, electrocuted Trenton, NJ.
April 03, 1919 • William Little, a black man and ex-soldier, is beaten to death by a mob of whites, for wearing his uniform-the only clothes he owned, in Blakely, GA.
April 03, 1934 • Eddie Green, Dillinger accomplice, shot in the back by FBI, St.Paul, MN, died 8 days later.
April 04, 1923 • Vern Miller arrested, embezzlement of public funds, Sioux Falls, SD.
April 04, 1933 • Barker-Karpis Gang robbed Fairbury Bank, Fairbury, NE, Earl Christman wounded in escape, later died.
April 04, 1934 • Bonnie, Clyde, and Henry Methvin sighted in Duvant, OK, by Frank Hamer, Manny Gault, Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton.
April 04, 1968 • Chicago Mayor Daley orders police to "shoot to kill" rioters.
April 04, 1968 • Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated by James Earl Ray, in Memphis, TN.
April 05, 1932 • Adam Richetti imprisoned, State Penitentiary, McAlester, OK.
April 06, 1934 • Bonnie, Clyde and Henry Methvin shot and killed Officer Cal Campbell, wounded and kidnapped Police Chief Percy Boyd, Commerce, OK, releasing him unharmed the next day near Ft. Scott, KS.
April 07, 1932 • Pretty Boy Floyd killed Special Investigator Erv Kelley, Bixby, OK.
April 07, 1933 • Prohibition ends.
April 07, 1984 • Barkasse der Hanswurst - SchHI, Bowling Green, KY.
April 09, 1912 • Tom Miles, a black man, acquitted of writing letters to a white girl, is seized by a mob and lynched, Shreveport, LA.
April 12, 1924 • John Dillinger married Bethyl Hovius, Martinsville, IN.
April 13, 1933 • Bonnie, Clyde, W.D. Jones, Buck and Blanche escape police trap, Joplin, MO, Clyde wounded, killing officers Wes Harryman and Harry McGinnis.
April 14, 1941 • Johnny Torrio paroled from Leavenworth Penitentiary, KS.
April 14, 1965 • Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, hanged for multiple murders.
April 15, 1912 • Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM.
April 15, 1931 • Joe "the Boss" Masseria murdered, Coney Island, NY, by Joe Adonis, Albert Anastasia, Bugsy Siegel and Vito Genovese.
April 16, 1918 • Jack "Legs" Diamond is arrested for attempted robbery, charge dismissed, New York City.
April 16, 1957 • Johnny Torrio died of a heart attack, NY.
April 16, 1969 • Dawn Basom, 13, found, murder victim of Norman Collins.
April 16, 2010 • Tzar euthanized 3:05pm.
April 17, 1915 • Caesar Sheffield, a black man accused of stealing meat, is taken from jail by a mob and shot to death, Valdosta, GA.
April 17, 1977 • Alexander Esau, Valentina Suriani killed by Son of Sam, Bronx.
April 19, 1934 • Clyde writes famous letter to Henry Ford, from Tulsa, OK.
April 19, 1993 • Infamous Jim Thompson/Marco bloodbath. Overtime at TGH.
April 19, 2009 • Ray Stone died.
April 20, 2001 • Stax Museum Groundbreaking.
April 21, 1930 • Clyde transferred from Waco jail to Huntsville Penitentiary, TX.
April 22, 1934 • Melvin Purvis, FBI, leads raid on Little Bohemia Lodge, WI.
April 22, 1934 • John Dillinger escaped FBI raid, Little Bohemia Lodge, WI.
April 22, 1934 • Baby Face Nelson killed FBI agent, Carter Baum, Little Bohemia, WI.
April 22, 1936 • Johnny Torrio arrested for income tax evasion, White Plains, NY.
April 22, 1936 • Max Emil Fredrick von Stephanitz, Father of the German Shepherd Dog, died.
April 22, 1974 • Dale Pierre, William Andrews rob hi fi store, Ogden, UT, wounding Cortney Naisbitt, elder Mr. Walker, killing Carol Naisbitt, Michelle Ansley, Stan Walker. Sentenced to death.
April 23, 1934 • John Dillinger and gang escape police roadblock, John Hamilton wounded, St.Paul, MN.
April 24, 1969 • Sirhan Sirhan, murderer, sentenced to death, Los Angeles, CA.
April 25, 1934 • Ray Hamilton surrendered to police, Sherman, TX.
April 25, 1935 • Alvin Karpis robbed US Mail truck, Warren, OH, for $70,000.
April 27, 1932 • Clyde robs and kills grocer and jeweler John Bucher, Hillsboro, TX.
April 27, 1933 • Bonnie, Clyde, W.D. Jones, Buck and Blanche steal a car, kidnapping undertaker, H.D. Darby and his fiance Sophie Stone, later releasing them unharmed, Rustin, LA.
April 28, 1955 • Burton W. Abbott strangled and murdered Stephanie Bryan, San Francisco, CA.
April 28, 1979 • Terry Chasteen and 3 children found murdered, White Lick Creek, IN. by Stephen Judy, 22.
April 29, 1919 • George Holden, a black man, who survived 2 previous lynching attempts, is taken from a train and lynched, Shreveport, LA.
April 30, 1945 • Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide.
April 30, 1976 • Muhammad Ali d. Jimmy Young, 15 rounds, Landover, MD.

May 01, 1936 • Alvin Karpis arrested by FBI, New Orleans, LA. J Edgar Hoover, director FBI, makes his first (probably only) arrest.
May 01, 2013 • The "father" died.
May 02, 1931 • Alvin Karpis discharged from Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing.
May 02, 1946 • Bloody breakout attempt at Alcatraz, involving Bernard Coy, Clarence Carnes, Joseph Cretzer. 8 killed.
May 02, 1960 • Caryl Chessman, convicted kidnapper, executed in CA.
May 02, 1972 • J Edgar Hoover dropped dead.
May 03, 1935 • Harry Sawyer, Barker-Karpis Gang member, arrested in Mississippi.
May 04, 1970 • 4 student protesters, Kent State Univ. killed by Ohio National Guard.
May 05, 1932 • Clyde robs and kidnaps owners of 2 service stations, Lufkin, TX.
May 06, 1929 • Pretty Boy Floyd arrested Kansas City, KS, for vagrancy, suspicion highway robbery.
May 06, 1963 • Beverly Samans, 23, raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
May 06, 1987 • Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God.
May 07, 1914 • Charley Jones, a black man, is lynched by a mob, Groveton, MS.
May 07, 1929 • Al Capone killed Albert Anselmi, John Scalise and Joseph Giunta, Chicago, with a baseball bat.
May 07, 1972 • Anita Luchese, Maryann Pesce murdered by Edmund Emil Kemper, Berkley, CA.
May 08, 1920 • Henry Scott, a black man, train porter, is pulled off a train and shot 60 or more times by a mob of whites, Tampa, FL.
May 08, 1933 • Bonnie and Clyde and the Barrow Gang robbed Lucerne State Bank, Indiana, for $300.
May 09, 1929 • Pretty Boy Floyd arrested Pueblo, CO, vagrancy, fined $50 and 60 days in jail.
May 09, 1947 • Leonard Calamia arrested for the strangling death of Nick DeJohn, San Francisco, CA.
May 10, 2001 • Klint vom Studer Schloss died.
May 11, 2001 • Scamp the fox arrived.
May 11, 1920 • Johnny Torrio ordered Al Capone to murder Jim Colosimo, Chicago, IL.
May 12, 1916 • Jack "Legs" Diamond is arrested, assault & robbery, New York City, and discharged.
May 12, 1932 • Clyde Barrow robbed a Dallas, TX liquor store for $76.
May 12, 1988 • Steve caught 10 lb. 4 oz. largemouth bass.
May 13, 1931 • Jack "Legs" Diamond is arrested, violation Prohibition Act, New York City.
May 14, 2015 • B.B. King died.
May 15, 1933 • Bonnie and Clyde and the Barrow Gang robbed First State Bank of Okabena, MN, for $1,500.
May 15, 1940 • First nylon stockings were sold in America.
May 15, 1970 • Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2, wounds 11, Jackson State College.
May 16, 1975 • Muhammad Ali KO Ron Lyle, 11 rounds, Las Vegas.
May 16, 1977 • Muhammad Ali d. Alfredo Evangelista, 15 rounds, Landover, MD
May 17, 1929 • Al Capone and bodyguard arrested for carrying concealed weapons, Philadelphia, PA.
May 17, 2018 • Benny Troy died.
May 19, 1924 • Johnny Torrio arrested at Sieben's Brewery for violation of Prohibition Act, Chicago, IL.
May 19, 1930 • Alvin Karpis transferred to State Penitentiary, Lansing, KS.
May 20, 1930 • Pretty Boy Floyd arrested for bank robbery, Toledo, OH.
May 21, 1934 • Bonnie and Clyde sighted at Black Lake, LA.
May 21, 1966 • Cassius Clay KO Henry Cooper, 6 rounds, London.
May 22, 1933 • John Dillinger paroled from Indiana State Reformatory.
May 22, 1934 • Ambush posse, Frank Hamer, Manny Gault, Prentis Oakley, Henderson Jordan, Bob Alcorn, and Ted Hinton, hid in woods and trees, waiting to murder Bonnie and Clyde, Arcadia, LA.
May 22, 1939 • Hitler and Mussolini sign 10-year "Pact of Steel" alliance.
May 23, 1913 • Vito Genovese arrives in the US at 10 years old, from Sicily.
May 23, 1934 • Bonnie & Clyde murdered by Frank Hamer, Manny Gault, Prentiss Oakley, Henderson Jordan, Bob Alcorn, and Ted Hinton, with 187 rounds from machineguns, rifles, shotguns, and pistols.
May 24, 1918 • George "Bugs" Moran is captured during safe burglary, Chicago.
May 25, 1925 • George "Bugs" Moran murdered Angelo Genna, Chicago, IL.
May 25, 1934 • Clyde Barrow buried next to Buck, West Dallas Cemetery, TX.
May 25, 1965 • Cassius Clay KO Sonny Liston, 1 round, Lewiston, Maine.
May 25, 1969 • The last show I played with the Soul Survivors, Prospect Park, PA. Two days later, I was working at STAX, in Memphis.
May 25, 1976 • Muhammad Ali KO Richard Dunn, 5 rounds, Munich.
May 25, 1979 • American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago, killing 275.
May 26, 1934 • Bonnie Parker buried Fishtrap Cemetery, West Dallas, TX.
May 26, 1969 • Walked out of the Soul Survivors. No notice, no discussion, no "goodbyes" - gone.
May 27, 1916 • Jack "Legs" Diamond arrested for robbery, New York City, and discharged.
May 27, 1960 • Sharon Kinne shot, killed Patricia Jones, Kansas City, MO.
May 29, 2001 • Roger Pace died.
May 30, 1431 • Joan of Arc was executed.
May 30, 1911 • First Indianapolis 500 car race.
May 30, 1937 • Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago.
May 31, 1933 • Harvey Bailey escaped Kansas State Penitentiary.
May 31, 1964 • Charles Howard Schmid and John Saunders murdered 15 year old Alleen Rowe, Tucson, AZ.

June 01, 1928 • Machine Gun Jack McGurn killed Lawrence LaPresta, Chicago,IL.
June 01, 1935 • Volney Davis, Barker-Karpis Gang member, arrested, Chicago, IL.
June 03, 1945 • William Heirens murdered Josephine Ross during burglary, Chicago, IL.
June 03, 1955 • Barbara Graham, murderess, executed in the gas chamber, at San Quentin.
June 05, 1934 • Tommy Carroll, Dillinger accomplice, shot to death by police, Waterloo, IA.
June 05, 1968 • Sen. Robert Kennedy shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan, Los Angeles, CA.
June 06, 1967 • Richard Speck, mass murderer, sentenced to death by electrocution, Chicago, IL.
June 06, 2006 • Billy Preston died.
June 08, 1912 • George "Bugs" Moran is paroled from Joliet, IL.
June 08, 1953 • Tornadoes kill 110 in Michigan & Ohio.
June 08, 1968 • James Earl Ray, murderer, arrested London, England.
June 09, 1930 • Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, shot & killed, Chicago, IL.
June 09, 1969 • Alice Kalom, found, murder victim of Norman Collins.
June 09, 1972 • Flood & dam burst kills 236, Rapid City, SD.
June 10, 1931 • Alvin Karpis, using alias George Haller, arrested Tulsa, OK, for burglary.
June 10, 1933 • John Dillinger, William Shaw and Paul Parker robbed Nat'l. Bank, New Carlisle, IN, for $10,600.
June 10, 1977 • James Earl Ray escapes from prison.
June 11, 1921 • Doc Barker released State Penitentiary, McAlester OK, by order of court.
June 11, 1933 • Clyde wrecks car, Bonnie severely burned, Sheriff Dick Corey and Marshall Paul Hardy kidnapped, Wellington, TX, taken to Erick, OK, left wired to tree. Bonnie, Clyde and W.D. Jones rejoined by Buck and Blanche.
June 11, 1955 • Flaming 2-car collision at Le Mans race kills 83 spectators.
June 11, 2001 • Aileen Wournos executed, Starke, FL. Sold out by her lawyer and "adopted mother".
June 12, 1963 • Medgar Evers, NAACP official, murdered by sniper, Jackson, MS.
June 13, 1929 • Lucky Luciano arrested suspicion of murder.
June 13, 1939 • Doc Barker killed in an escape attempt from Alcatraz.
June 14, 1962 • Mrs. Anna Slesers, first Boston Strangler victim, found murdered.
June 15, 1933 • Doc Barker, Fred Barker, Alvin Karpis, Monty Bolton, Fred Goetz, and Charles Fitzgerald kidnapped William A. Hamm, Jr., brewery owner, St.Paul, MN, demanding $100,000. ransom.
June 16, 1931 • Al Capone plead guilty to tax evasion and prohibition charges, later changed plea to not guilty, Chicago, IL.
June 16, 1932 • Bonnie Parker arrested Kaufman, TX, for burglary.
June 16, 1933 • Frank "Jelly" Nash arrested, Hot Springs, AR, on fugitive warrant.
June 16, 1933 • Pretty Boy Floyd abducted Sheriff Killingsworth, Bolivar, MO.
June 17, 1932 • Barker-Karpis Gang robbed bank, Ft. Scott, KS for $47,000.
June 17, 1932 • Bonnie Parker released, lack of evidence, Kaufman, TX.
June 17, 1933 • Pretty Boy Floyd allegedly participated in Kansas City Massacre, killing four officers and Frank "Jelly" Nash.
June 18, 1912 • George "Bugs" Moran paroled from Joliet, IL.
June 18, 1933 • William A. Hamm, Jr. released after $100,000. ransom paid to the Barker-Karpis gang.
June 19, 1933 • Clyde leaves Ft. Smith, AR, to pick up Bonnie's sister Billie in Dallas, TX.
June 19, 1953 • Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, NY.
June 20, 1907 • Madam Garrity, Chicago brothel owner, is convicted of white slavery and sentenced to one to five years - the stiffest sentence ever given to a brothel keeper in Chicago.
June 20, 1947 • Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel shot to death at the home of Virginia Hill, famous syndicate oral sex queen, Beverly Hills, CA.
June 21, 1943 • Race riot in Detroit, 30 dead.
June 21, 2012 • Shaved off beard and mustache - first time since 1969.
June 22, 1903 • George White, a black man and suspected killer, dragged from jail and burned at the stake, Wilmington, DE.
June 22, 1956 • Elvis' first Ed Sullivan appearance.
June 22, 1962 • Joseph Valachi murdered inmate John Joseph, Federal Prison, Atlanta, GA.
June 22, 1969 • Toronto's first Rock Festival.
June 22, 1981 • Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to John Lennon's murder.
June 23, 1933 • Buck and W.D. Jones robbed Piggly Wiggly store, Fayetteville, AR, escaped police trap, Alma, AR, killing Marshal Henry Humphrey, stealing his car.
June 24, 1959 • Charles Starkweather, mass murderer, electrocuted, Nebraska State Penitentiary.
June 24, 1960 • Second Newport Folk Festival.
June 24, 1975 • 18 record company executives indicted on various income tax and payola charges.
June 25, 1933 • Clyde and W.D. Jones stole car, Enid, OK, and robbed National Guard Armory of automatic weapons and ammunition.
June 25, 1982 • Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges.
June 25, 1990 • Steve and Angel Cropper anniversary.
June 26, 1916 • Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 1 year, narcotics, New York, paroled in 6 months.
June 26, 1933 • Bonnie, Clyde, W.D. Jones, Buck and Blanche return Billie Parker to Sherman, TX, traveling to Oklahoma then to Great Bend, KS.
June 26, 1946 • George "Bugs" Moran, with Virgil Summers and Albert Fouts, robbed bank messenger, Dayton, OH, for $10,000.
June 26, 1957 • Margaret Harold murdered by Melvin Rees, Annapolis, MD.
June 26, 1977 • Salvatore Lupo, Judy Placido wounded by Son of Sam, Queens.
June 28, 1991 • Barkasse der Hanswurst SchHII VB WH died.
June 28, 2002 • Rebecca diagnosed with lung cancer.
June 29, 1928 • Machine Gun Jack McGurn murdered Diego Attlomionte, Chicago, IL.
June 29, 1967 • Jayne Mansfield dies at age 34.
June 29, 1972 • US Supreme Court determines death penalty is unconstitutional.
June 29, 1977 • US Supreme Court rules capital punishment for rape is unconstitutional.
June 29, 2013 • Zoltan created the highlight script.
June 30, 1928 • Machine Gun Jack McGurn murdered Numio Jamericco and Lorenzo Alagno, Chicago, IL.
June 30, 1933 • Roger Touhy arrested for kidnapping of John "Jake the Barber" Factor, Chicago, IL.
June 30, 1934 • John Dillinger allegedly robbed Merchant's Nat'l. Bank, South Bend.
June 30, 1934 • Pretty Boy Floyd robbed Merchant's Nat'l. Bank, South Bend, IN, for $18,000.
June 30, 1962 • Helen Blake, 65, raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
June 30, 1962 • Nina Nicholls raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
June 30, 1974 • Mrs. Albert King, mother of Martin Luther King, murdered in church.
June 30, 1975 • Muhammad Ali d. Joe Bugner, 15 rounds, Malaysia.

July 01, 1927 • Frankie Yale, shot & killed, New York City.
July 01, 1931 • Buck Barrow married Blanche Caldwell.
July 01, 1935 • The Bureau of Investigation officially became the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with ridiculous additional powers.
July 01, 1968 • Joan Schell, 20, disappeared, murder victim of Norman Collins.
July 02, 1956 • Elvis records 2 all time best sellers, Don't Be Cruel, Hound Dog.
July 02, 1976 • Tina runs away from the I&TT Revue a few hours before a concert, Dallas, TX.
July 03, 2006 • Cap Haggerty died.
July 04, 1918 • Doc Barker arrested Tulsa, OK, larceny of US Property, escaped custody.
July 04, 1993 • Paff von der Herreneiche died.
July 04, 2003 • Steve played last performance - St. Pete, FL.
July 07, 1915 • Charles Becker, murderer, extortionist, electrocuted, Sing Sing Prison.
July 07, 1932 • Francis Keating and Thomas Holden arrested Kansas City, MO, for bank robbery.
July 07, 1954 • Dewey Phillips, WHBQ, Memphis, plays 1st Elvis Presley record on the air, "That's All Right, Mama".
July 07, 1972 • FBI swears in first women agents Susan Roley, Joanne Pierce.
July 08, 1958 • Vito Genovese indicted for smuggling, distributing & selling narcotics, New York City.
July 08, 1959 • John Dillinger's 1st letter and photo to the Indianapolis Star, 25 years after he was "killed" by the FBI. Read "Dillinger: Dead or Alive?" by Jay Robert Nash and decide for yourself.
July 08, 2003 • Rebecca's lung collapsed.
July 09, 1986 • Commission on Pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes.
July 10, 1967 • Mary Fleszar disappeared, murder victim of Norman Collins.
July 12, 1967 • Newark race riot - 26 killed, 1500 injured, over 1000 arrested.
July 12, 1979 • Minnie Ripperton died at age 30 of cancer.
July 13, 1966 • Richard Speck murdered 8 student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital, Chicago, IL.
July 13, 1969 • Roxie Ann Phillips, found, murder victim of Norman Collins.
July 14, 1903 • Ed Claus, a black man convicted of rape, is hanged at Eastman, GA,by a mob, while his rape victim, Susie Johnson, witnesses the lynching.
July 14, 1914 • James Bailey, a black man, accused of stealing 3 mules, is lynched by a mob of masked men, Lake Cormorant, MS.
July 14, 1965 • Alice Crimmins, 26, murders her 2 children, NYC. Sentenced to life.
July 14, 1989 • Horace Duncan, IQ 69, executed for murder in Alabama.
July 15, 1916 • Jack "Legs" Diamond is arrested for assault, New York City, and discharged.
July 15, 1929 • John Dillinger transferred to Michigan City State Prison, IN.
July 15, 1982 • Wendy Caulfield, first Green River victim, found dead near Seattle.
July 15, 2003 • Rebecca admitted to hospital.
July 17, 1928 • Machine Gun Jack McGurn murdered Dominic Cinderella, Chicago, IL.
July 17, 1931 • Baby Face Nelson imprisoned State Penitentiary, Joliet, IL.
July 17, 1933 • John Dillinger and Harry Copeland robbed Commercial Bank, Daleville, IN, for $3500.
July 17, 1959 • Billie Holiday dies of drug overdose at 44, NYC.
July 17, 1966 • Richard Speck arrested after attempting suicide, Chicago, IL.
July 18, 1933 • The Barrow Gang held up 3 gas stations, Ft. Dodge, IA. That night, at Red Crown Tavern, Platte City, escaped police raid led by armored car. Buck seriously wounded, Blanche injured.
July 18, 1970 • Randall's Island Rock Festival.
July 18, 1984 • Gunman opens fire at McDonald's in San Ysidro, CA., killing 21.
July 19, 2001 • Judy Clay died. (STAX Records)
July 20, 1944 • Von Stauffenberg fails in an attempt on Hitler's life.
July 20, 1970 • First baby born on Alcatraz Island.
July 21, 1873 • Jesse James' first train robbery.
July 21, 1923 • John Dillinger arrested for car theft, Mooresville, IN.
July 21, 1931 • Pretty Boy Floyd killed Curtis Burks, Kansas City, Missouri.
July 21, 1984 • 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US.
July 22, 1933 • Machine Gun Kelly kidnapped Charles Urschel, Oklahoma City, OK.
July 22, 1934 • The infamous shooting of "John Dillinger" at the Biograph Theatre. Another Melvin Purvis fiasco. The dead man was not John Dillinger. Read "Dillinger: Dead or Alive?" by Jay Robert Nash and decide for yourself.
July 22, 2003 • Rebecca's surgery. A $2 million dollar failure.
July 23, 1900 • Elijah Clark, a black man, taken from jail, Huntsville, AL, and lynched for the rape of 13 year old Susan Priest.
July 23, 1969 • Karen Beineman, 18, disappeared, murder victim of Norman Collins.
July 24, 1923 • John Dillinger enlisted in the US Navy.
July 24, 1927 • George "Machine Gun" Kelly arrested Tulsa, OK, for vagrancy.
July 24, 1933 • The Barrow Gang surrounded by posse, Dexter, IA, Bonnie, Clyde, and W.D. Jones escaped with bullet wounds, Buck, shot 6 times, captured with Blanche.
July 25, 1932 • Fred Barker, Alvin Karpis, Jess Doyle, Frank Nash, Earl Christman, and Larry DeVol robbed Cloud County Bank, Concordia, KS, for $250,000.
July 26, 1934 • Alleged "John Dillinger" burial in Crown Hill Cemetery, IN. Read "Dillinger: Dead or Alive?" by Jay Robert Nash and decide for yourself.
July 26, 1974 • Alice Curtis raped by John Paul Knowles, Jacksonville, FL.
July 27, 1903 • Jennie Steers, a black woman, accused of poisoning, is lynched near Shreveport, LA.
July 27, 1976 • Tina Turner files initial divorce petition against Ike at Los Angeles Superior Court.
July 28, 1973 • Summer Jam - New York.
July 28, 1979 • World Series of Rock - Cleveland Stadium.
July 29, 1901 • George Middleton of Pottersville, NY was electrocuted at Clinton Prison. The electric chair required four shocks over 12 minutes to kill him.
July 29, 1933 • Buck Barrow died of 6 gunshot wounds, Perry, Iowa.
July 29, 1976 • Donna Lauria, Jody Valenti shot by Son of Sam, NYC.
July 30, 1963 • John Dillinger's 2nd letter and photo to Emil Wanatka, Jr., 29 years after he was "killed" by the FBI. Read "Dillinger: Dead or Alive?" by Jay Robert Nash and decide for yourself.
July 31, 1932 • Clyde and Ray Hamilton rob Neuhoff Packing Co., West Dallas, TX, for $1, 100., escaping to Oklahoma.
July 31, 1940 • Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel murdered Whitey Krakower, Brooklyn, NY.
July 31, 1977 • Robert Violante, Stacy Moskowitz shot by Son of Sam, Brooklyn.
July 31, 2003 • Rebecca released from hospital under Hospice care.
July 31, 2014 • 2nd TIA. 20 minutes unconscious.

August 01, 1936 • Adolf Hitler opens 11th modern Olympic games in Berlin.
August 01, 1966 • Charles Whitman shot 46 people at the Univ. of Texas, Austin, shot and killed by police, Austin, Texas.
August 01, 1969 • Atlantic Pop Festival.
August 01, 1971 • George Harrison's Bangla Desh Concert - Madison Square Garden.
August 02, 1876 • Wild Bill Hickock shot in the head by Jack McCall, Carl Mann's Saloon, in Deadwood.
August 04, 1933 • John Dillinger and Harry Copeland robbed 1st Nat'l. Bank, Montpelier, IN, for $10,110.
August 04, 1958 • Billboard Magazine introduces Hot 100.
August 04, 1966 • John Lennon's famous quote "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ".
August 04, 1968 • Newport Pop Festival.
August 05, 1932 • Clyde and Ray Hamilton bring Bonnie back to her mother's house, Dallas, TX, and leave for Oklahoma. In Atoka, OK, they shoot and kill Sheriff Maxwell and Deputy Moore, escaping to Grapevine, TX.
August 05, 1953 • Joe Adonis deported to Italy.
August 05, 1962 • Marilyn Monroe died at age 36, drug overdose. Or was it really a Kennedy administration overdose? Read and learn.
August 05, 2001 • WFFCW created.
August 06, 1890 • John Hart, murderer, first to be electrocuted in US,NY.
August 06, 1932 • Bonnie rejoins Clyde near Grand Prairie, TX.
August 06, 1966 • Cassius Clay KO Brian London, 3 rounds, London.
August 06, 1981 • Canine Training opened.
August 06, 1997 • Corey vom Adelherz died.
August 06, 2002 • Canine Training closed permanently.
August 07, 1928 • Adam Richetti arrested for holdup, Hammond, IN.
August 07, 1989 • Rolf vom Ravenblack died.
August 08, 1932 • Fred Barker, Volney Davis and Larry DeVol robbed Citizen's Security Bank, Bixby, OK, for $1,000.
August 08, 1933 • Ray Hamilton transferred to Huntsville Penitentiary, sentenced to a total of 263 years imprisonment.
August 09, 1969 • Charles Manson and "Family" slaughtered Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Voytek Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Stephen Parent, Los Angeles, CA.
August 11, 1962 • Stax Records released Green Onions by Booker T & the MGs.
August 11, 1969 • Charles Manson and "Family" slaughtered Lino and Rosemary LaBianca, Los Angeles, CA.
August 11, 2016 • Fred's mother died.
August 12, 1933 • 1st Model T rolls off the line, Ford Motor Co, costs $850.
August 12, 1933 • Harvey Bailey captured Paradise, TX by FBI agents.
August 13, 1932 • Bonnie and Clyde took Sheriff Johns of Carlsbad, NM, hostage.
August 14, 1932 • Bonnie and Clyde release Sheriff Joe Johns, San Antonio, TX, steal another car in Victoria, TX, and escape a police trap at the Colorado River Bridge, Wharton, TX.
August 14, 1933 • John Dillinger, Harry Copeland and Sam Goldstine robbed Citizen's Nat'l. Bank, Bluffton, OH, for $2,100.
August 15, 1969 • Woodstock Pop Festival.
August 16, 1965 • Charles Howard Schmid murdered 17 year old Gretchen Fritz and 13 year old sister Wendy, Tucson, AZ.
August 16, 1977 • Elvis Presley died, Memphis, TN.
August 16, 2018 • Aretha Franklin died, Detroit.
August 17, 1959 • Famous NYC power blackout.
August 17, 1989 • Xarras von der Herreneiche died.
August 18, 1959 • Harvey Glatman, serial murderer, executed in the gas chamber, San Quentin.
August 18, 1969 • Mick Jagger accidentally shot on the set of "Ned Kelly".
August 18, 1991 • Spitz died.
August 18, 1995 • Rebecca - serious IRS crisis.
August 18, 2003 • Rebecca and I discussed her approaching death. Bec was completely logical.
August 19, 1934 • Plebiscite in Germany gives Hitler sole executive power.
August 19, 1962 • Ida Irga, 75, raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
August 20, 1962 • Jane Sullivan, 67, raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
August 21, 1911 • Vincenzo Peruggia removes da Vinci's Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris, and keeps it until December 12, 1913, when he is arrested. The Mona Lisa was then returned to the Louvre intact.
August 21, 1974 • Sheriff Buford Pusser murdered.
August 21, 2003 • Rebecca died in my arms at 2:45 pm. 34 years together.
August 22, 1933 • Alvin Karpis, Doc Barker, Fred Barker, Monty Bolton, Bill Weaver and Fred Goetz robbed a Federal Reserve Mail truck, Chicago, IL, wounding one policeman and killing another.
August 22, 1989 • Huey Newton, Black Panthers, found shot to death, Oakland, CA.
August 23, 1934 • Homer Van Meter, Dillinger accomplice, shot down in an alley, St.Paul, MN.
August 23, 1974 • Kathie Pierce raped, strangled by John Paul Knowles, Mussela, FL.
August 25, 1932 • Adam Richetti released, State Penitentiary, McAlester, OK.
August 25, 1939 • Louis "Lepke" Buchalter surrendered to FBI, New York.
August 26, 1978 • Canada's first Jam Rock Festival, Ontario.
August 27, 1967 • Brian Epstein, Beatle's manager, dies of overdose, London.
August 27, 1967 • Thomas Braun, murderer, arrested Jamestown, CA.
August 27, 1974 • Joan Little, black inmate, kills white jailer trying to rape her.
August 28, 1963 • Janice Wylie, Emily Hoffert murdered by Richard Robles, NYC.
August 28, 1986 • Tina Turner immortalized with star (#1831) on Hollywood Blvd. "Walk of Fame".
August 28, 2003 • I cremated Rebecca.
August 28, 2004 • Wes and Shelly wedding anniversary.
August 30, 1933 • Doc Barker, Fred Barker, Alvin Karpis, Larry DeVol and Charles Fitzgerald robbed Swift Company payroll, St.Paul, MN, for $30,000., killing one policeman and wounding another.
August 30, 1971 • Nathan Leopold, murderer, died of heart failure, Puerto Rico.
August 31, 1961 • Ann Marie Burr, Tacoma, WA, disappears, possible Bundy murder.

September 01, 1935 • Bill Weaver, Barker-Karpis gang member, arrested, Chicago, IL.
September 01, 1962 • Green Onions enters Top 40 charts.
September 01, 1963 • Stax releases "Walkin The Dog".
September 02, 1938 • Adam Richetti imprisoned State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, MO, pending execution for participation in Kansas City Massacre.
September 03, 1971 • John Gilbert Freeman, demented upholsterer, Phoenix, AZ, murders 7 neighbors using two .38 revolvers.
September 03, 1974 • William Bates, strangled by John Paul Knowles, Lima OH.
September 03, 1979 • Hurricane David kills over 1,000.
September 04, 1933 • Harvey Bailey escaped Dallas, TX jail.
September 05, 1975 • Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Manson disciple, attempts assassination of President Gerald Ford, Sacramento, CA. The gun misfired.
September 06, 1924 • John Dillinger and Edgar Singleton attempted to rob Frank Morgan, Martinsville, IN.
September 06, 1933 • John Dillinger, Harry Copeland and Hilton Crouch robbed Massachusetts Ave. State Bank, Indianapolis, IN, for $24,800.
September 06, 2001 • Tzar vom Adelhertz arrived.
September 07, 1933 • Bonnie and Clyde returned to Dallas to visit Bonnie's family.
September 08, 1915 • Mallie Wilson, a black, is lynched by a large mob, after accidentally entering a white woman's hotel room, Dresden, TN.
September 08, 1963 • Evelyn Corbin, 58, raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
September 08, 1974 • Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon for all federal crimes.
September 09, 1965 • Charles Howard Schmid, mass murderer, married 15 year old Diane Lynch, Tucson, AZ.
September 09, 1967 • Soul Man by Sam and Dave, released by Stax Records.
September 10, 1924 • Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder.
September 10, 1931 • Sal Maranzano, founder of Cosa Nostra, killed by Luciano hit men.
September 10, 1932 • Doc Barker paroled from State Penitentiary, McAlester, OK, after serving 10 years for murder.
September 10, 1966 • Cassius Clay KO Karl Mildenberger, 12 rounds, Frankfurt.
September 11, 1931 • Alvin Karpis sentenced to 4 years, State Penitentiary, McAlester, OK, paroled.
September 11, 1987 • Peter Tosh, reggae singer, shot and killed, Jamaica.
September 12, 1933 • John Dillinger unsuccessfully smuggled weapons for Michigan City Prison breakout.
September 14, 1964 • Sharon Kinne shot, killed Francisco Ordonez, Mexico City.
September 14, 1971 • George "Bugs" Moran died in a charity bed, Miami Rescue Mission, Miami, FL.
September 14, 1972 • Aiko Koo, 15, murdered by Edmund Emil Kemper, San Francisco.
September 14, 1989 • Gunman with AK-47 automatic weapon murders 7, Louisville, KY.
September 15, 1924 • John Dillinger sentenced by Judge Joseph Williams, concurrent sentences of 2-14 and 10-20, Martinsville, Indiana.
September 15, 1978 • Muhammad Ali d. Leon Spinks, 15 rounds, New Orleans.
September 16, 1924 • John Dillinger imprisoned State Reformatory, Pendleton, IN.
September 16, 1925 • Pretty Boy Floyd arrested St.Louis, MO, for highway robbery.
September 16, 1985 • The Tower Club (BBS - PCBoard) was born.
September 16, 1993 • Fanny vom Haardblick SchHIII Kkl IIa died.
September 17, 1910 • George "Bugs" Moran sentenced to prison for robbery, Chicago, IL.
September 18, 1974 • Emmett and Lois Johnson, shot, killed by John Paul Knowles at Ely, NV.
September 19, 1927 • Herman Barker committed suicide.
September 20, 1926 • Hymie Weiss and "Bugs" Moran machine gunned Hawthorne Hotel, Al Capone's headquarters, with over 1000 rounds, Cicero, IL.
September 21, 1974 • Jacqueline Susann died at age 53.
September 21, 1974 • John Paul Knowles raped and strangled woman, Sequin, NV.
September 22, 1933 • John Dillinger arrested, Dayton, OH, on fugitive warrant.
September 23, 1933 • Weapons smuggled by John Dillinger for the Michigan City Prison breakout successfully received.
September 23, 1974 • Ann Dawson disappeared, Birmingham, AL, murdered by John Paul Knowles, her body was never found.
September 25, 1925 • First documented use of the Thompson Submachine Gun by gangsters.
September 25, 1937 • John Henry Seadlund kidnapped 72 year old Charles Ross for $50,000 ransom, Franklin Park, IL. After ransom was paid, Seadlund murdered Ross.
September 26, 1933 • Machine Gun Kelly captured by State Police, Memphis, TN.
September 26, 1933 • Michigan City State Prison break out, financed and engineered by John Dillinger. Walter Dietrich, Jim Clark, James Jenkins, Joseph Burns, Joseph Fox, Edward Shouse, Harry Pierpont, Russell Clark, John Hamilton, and Charles Makley escaped.
September 27, 1932 • Doc Barker paroled after 13 years, Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
September 28, 1924 • John Dillinger unsuccessfully attempted escape from guard after testifying against Edgar Singleton, Pendleton, IN.
September 28, 1933 • John Dillinger imprisoned County Jail, Lima, OH, for bank robbery.
September 28, 1976 • Muhammad Ali d. Ken Norton, 15 rounds, New York.
September 29, 1977 • Muhammad Ali d. Earnie Shavers, 15 rounds, New York.
September 30, 1935 • Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel murdered loan sharks Joseph and Louis Amberg, New York City.
September 30, 1955 • James Dean, killed in an auto wreck near Cholame, CA.

October 01, 1935 • Ma and Fred Barker buried with the rest of the boys, Welch, OK.
October 01, 1975 • Muhammad Ali KO Joe Frazier, 14 rounds, Manila.
October 02, 1930 • Adam Richetti paroled, State Reformatory, Pendleton, IN.
October 02, 1982 • Buffy vom Wanne-Eickel - SchHIII, Recklinghausen, Germany.
October 03, 1933 • Harry Pierpont, John Hamilton, Russell Clark, Charles Makley and Edward Shouse robbed First Nat'l. Bank, St. Mary's, OH, for $14,000. to fund John Dillinger's escape from Lima, OH, jail.
October 03, 1969 • My first date with Rebecca. She came to STAX Records, and listened to me play on a recording session.
October 04, 1970 • Janis Joplin dies of heroin overdose at age 27.
October 04, 1986 • Clint vom Hamskamp - SchHIII, Recklinghausen, Germany.
October 05, 1912 • Big Jack Zelig, murderer, shot and killed, New York City.
October 05, 1969 • Rebecca and I began living together.
October 05, 1989 • Jim Bakker found guilty of fleecing his flock.
October 06, 1866 • The first train robbery in America by the Reno Bros.
October 07, 1938 • Adam Richetti executed in gas chamber, Jefferson City, MO.
October 08, 1871 • The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
October 08, 1932 • Clyde and Ray Hamilton rob bank in Cedar Hill, TX, for $1,401.
October 09, 1942 • Roger Touhy and 6 others escaped Stateville Prison, Joliet, IL.
October 10, 1903 • Fred Van Wormer, electrocuted in New York, survived two shocks, and was placed again in the chair until dead.
October 10, 1924 • John Dillinger unsuccessfully attempted escape from Pendleton Reformatory, Pendleton, IN.
October 11, 1926 • Hymie Weiss shot and killed, Chicago, IL.
October 11, 1932 • Clyde robbed and killed grocer Howard Hall, Sherman TX.
October 11, 1934 • Pretty Boy Floyd escaped police trap in rural Iowa.
October 11, 1972 • Paul Ricca died, Chicago, IL.
October 12, 1933 • Alcatraz becomes an unofficial Federal Prison.
October 12, 1933 • Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, Jim Clark, John Hamilton, and Edward Shouse break John Dillinger out of jail, Lima, Ohio, murdering Sheriff Jess Sarber.
October 13, 1988 • Buffy vom Wanne-Eickel SchHIII KKl IIa AD died.
October 15, 1924 • John Dillinger attempted escape from Indiana State Reformatory, six months added to sentence.
October 15, 1926 • Louis "Lepke" Buchalter shot and killed Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen, wounded Jack "Legs" Diamond, New York City.
October 15, 1935 • Gerald Thompson, murderer, rapist, electrocuted, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, IL.
October 16, 1974 • Dawn Wine and mother Karen Wine, raped and killed by John Paul Knowles, Marlboro, CT.
October 16, 2004 • Tracy - first Saturday visit (also Sunday).
October 17, 1928 • John Dillinger destroyed prison property, 30 days added to sentence, Pendleton Reformatory, IN.
October 19, 1930 • Frank "Jelly" Nash escaped Federal Penitentiary, Leavenworth, KS.
October 19, 1974 • Doris Hovey, 53, shot, killed by John Paul Knowles, Woodford, VA.
October 20, 1933 • John Dillinger, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, John Hamilton & Jim Clark robbed Police Arsenal, Peru, IN, taking machine guns, pistols, sawed off shotguns, bullet proof vests, ammunition, police badges, rifles, etc.
October 21, 1934 • Pretty Boy Floyd and Adam Richetti wrecked car near Wellesville, OH, Richetti captured, Pretty Boy Floyd escaped.
October 22, 1934 • Pretty Boy Floyd shot 14 times and killed by FBI agents, East Liverpool, OH.
October 23, 1930 • Joe Aiello machine gunned to death, Chicago, IL.
October 23, 1932 • Winnie Ruth Judd murdered and dissected Helwig Samuelson and Agnes Leroi, shipping their dismembered bodies to Los Angeles.
October 23, 1933 • John Dillinger, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, Jim Clark and John Hamilton robbed Central Nat'l. Bank, Greencastle, IN, for $75,346.
October 23, 1935 • Dutch Schultz shot and killed, Newark, New Jersey.
October 23, 1951 • 39 Atlanta blacks killed by poison moonshine.
October 23, 1976 • Carl Denaro, Rosemary Keenan shot by Son of Sam, NYC.
October 24, 1931 • Al Capone sentenced to 11 years for income tax evasion.
October 24, 1934 • Richard Galatas, Herbert Farmer, Doc Louis Stacci, Frank Mulloy, indicted Kansas City, MO, conspiracy to cause escape of Federal prisoner, Frank Nash.
October 25, 1957 • Albert Anastasia shot & killed, New York City.
October 26, 1972 • Guided tours of Alcatraz begin.
October 26, 1985 • Fanny vom Haardblick - SchHIII, Recklinghausen, Germany.
October 28, 1904 • St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
October 28, 1919 • Volstead Act passed by Congress, Prohibition begins.
October 29, 1971 • Duane Allman dies in motorcycle accident.
October 30, 1974 • Muhammad Ali KO George Foreman, 8 rounds, Zaire.
October 31, 1911 • Francis "Two Gun" Crowley is placed in a New York City foster home as an infant.

November 01, 1932 • Pretty Boy Floyd robbed Sallisaw Bank, Sallisaw, OK, for $2,530.
November 01, 1955 • Jack Gilbert Graham planted bomb on United AL DC-6B, killing 44 people.
November 02, 1984 • Margie Barfield, NC, 1st woman executed in US in 22 years.
November 03, 1971 • Adele Crabtree, 16, found murdered, Conroe, TX, victim of Harry Lanham and Anthony Knoppa.
November 04, 1854 • Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
November 04, 1928 • Arnold Rothstein died from gunshot wounds, New York City.
November 06, 1974 • Caswell Carr stabbed, killed, his daughter strangled, killed by John Paul Knowles, Macon, GA.
November 06, 2009 • Quit smoking cigarettes - began using E-Cig.
November 07, 1932 • Pretty Boy Floyd robbed bank, Henryetta, OK, for $11,352.
November 07, 1935 • Alvin Karpis and gang robbed train, Garretsville, OH, for $34,000 cash and several thousand in securities. Escaped via airplane to Hot Springs, AR, the first recorded airplane escape by criminals.
November 08, 1923 • Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munchen.
November 08, 1924 • Dion O'Bannion shot & killed by Frankie Yale, John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, Chicago, IL.
November 08, 1933 • Bonnie and Clyde robbed MacMurray Refinery, Dallas, TX.
November 08, 1971 • Linda Faye Sutherlin found murdered outside Houston, TX, victim of Harry Lanham and Anthony Knoppa.
November 09, 1932 • Bonnie and Clyde robbed Oronogo Bank, Oronogo, MO, for $200.
November 09, 2004 • Tracy major fight - 4 collect calls.
November 10, 1924 • Johnny Torrio ordered Al Capone to kill Dion O'Bannion.
November 10, 1967 • James & Tom D'Angelo and Francisco Terelli machine gunned to death, Brooklyn, NY.
November 10, 2013 • Leonard went too far. Too much mouth.
November 11, 1965 • Cassius Clay KO Floyd Patterson, 12 rounds, Las Vegas.
November 11, 1965 • Charles Howard Schmid arrested for murder, Tucson, AZ.
November 11, 1972 • Charles Howard Schmid broke out of Arizona State Prison, later recaptured after kidnapping 4 people in Tempe, AZ.
November 12, 1923 • Hitler arrested, imprisoned, where he begins "Mein Kampf".
November 12, 1932 • Winnie Ruth Judd tried for murder, Phoenix, AZ.
November 12, 1970 • Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, kills estimated 300,000.
November 13, 2016 • Leon Russell died.
November 14, 1959 • Herbert Clutter and family of 3 murdered by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, KS.
November 14, 1966 • Cassius Clay KO Cleveland Williams, 3 rounds, Houston.
November 15, 1933 • John Dillinger escaped police trap in Chicago, IL.
November 15, 1933 • W.D. Jones arrested, Houston, TX, gave full confession.
November 16, 1939 • Al Capone released Alcatraz after 7 years, 6 months, 15 days.
November 17, 1950 • Ernest Ingenito shot 8 people, killing 7, near Vineland, NJ.
November 17, 1974 • John Paul Knowles, mass murderer, confessed to 31 murders, surrendered himself, Pulaski County, GA.
November 18, 1974 • John Paul Knowles, mass murderer, attempted escape, shot dead by FBI agent Ron Angel.
November 20, 1933 • John Dillinger, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, Jim Clark and John Hamilton robbed American Bank & Trust Co., Racine, WI, for $27,789.
November 21, 1941 • Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, of Murder, Inc., informer, flew from 6th floor hotel window while waiting to testify, Brooklyn, NY.
November 21, 1980 • Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84.
November 21, 2017 • Wayne Cochran died.
November 22, 1933 • Bonnie and Clyde, wounded, escaped posse, Grand Prairie, Texas.
November 22, 1935 • Dorothy Slayman divorced Alvin Karpis, Tulsa, OK.
November 22, 1939 • Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Al Tannenbaum, Frankie Carbo, and Whitey Krakower murdered Harry Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA.
November 22, 1963 • John F. Kennedy, 35th President, assassinated, Dallas, TX, by Lee Harvey Oswald.
November 23, 1928 • Thomas Fortune Ryan, founder of Auto Ordnance Corp. died, New York City.
November 23, 1963 • Joanne Graff, 23, raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
November 23, 1980 • Mae West died at age 88.
November 24, 1930 • Pretty Boy Floyd sentenced to Ohio State Penitentiary, escaped en route.
November 24, 1931 • Al Capone sentenced to 11 years, fined $50,000, charged $7,692 court costs, $215,000 plus interest in back taxes.
November 24, 1963 • Lee Harvey Oswald, shot, killed by Jack Ruby, first murder on TV.
November 24, 1995 • Rebecca - IRS crisis resolved.
November 26, 1933 • Thomas Harold Thurman, kidnapper, murderer, lynched San Jose, CA.
November 26, 1976 • Donna DeMasi, Joanne Lomino shot by Son of Sam, NYC.
November 27, 1934 • Baby Face Nelson killed FBI agents Cowley and Hollis, and was also killed, Fox River Grove, IL.
November 27, 1973 • Albert DeSalvo, Boston Strangler, stabbed, murdered in prison.
November 29, 1933 • Vern Miller found dead, Detroit, MI.
November 30, 1932 • Pretty Boy Floyd robbed Citizen's State Bank, Tupelo, Mississippi, for $50,000.

December 01, 1932 • Bonnie and Clyde joined by W.D. Jones, Dallas, TX.
December 01, 1957 • Charles Starkweather robbed and killed Robert Colvert, Lincoln, NE.
December 02, 1935 • Albert Kessel, murderer, is the first man to die in California's new gas chamber.
December 04, 1923 • John Dillinger deserted US Navy, Boston, Massachusetts.
December 04, 1953 • Vincent Ciucci shot and killed wife and 3 children, Chicago, IL.
December 04, 1969 • Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Black Panthers, murdered, Chicago police.
December 05, 1962 • Sophie Clark, 25, raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
December 06, 1932 • Bonnie and Clyde's accomplice, Ray Hamilton and Gene O'Dare arrested Bay City, MI, taken to Texas for trial.
December 06, 1989 • Gunman kills 14 women, University of Montreal, with automatic rifle.
December 10, 1945 • William Heirens robbed and killed Francis Brown, Chicago, IL.
December 10, 1967 • Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays died in plane crash, Lake Monona, WI.
December 11, 1931 • Frank "Jelly" Nash assisted in escape of 7 prisoners, Federal Penitentiary, Leavenworth, KS.
December 11, 1964 • Sam Cooke, R & B star, killed, Los Angeles, CA.
December 12, 1931 • Pretty Boy Floyd robbed a bank in Paden, OK, and a bank in Castle, OK - the first time 2 banks have been robbed by one person on the same day.
December 12, 1932 • Willie "the Actor" Sutton and John Eagan escape Sing Sing by sawing thru bars.
December 12, 1951 • William Cook, murderer, executed in the gas chamber, San Quentin.
December 12, 2007 • Ike Turner died.
December 14, 1903 • Murderer William Ennis is electrocuted at Sing Sing, becoming the first police officer sent to the chair.
December 14, 1933 • John Hamilton killed police officer, Chicago, IL.
December 15, 1901 • Kid Curry, famous outlaw, spotted by A.B.Carey of Jefferson City, TN, who telephoned the police. This was the first time a phone was used to capture a felon in the US.
December 15, 1921 • Thomas O'Connor, murderer, sentenced to hang, Chicago, IL, escaped days before execution. By court order, the gallows remain in the Cook Co. Jail until his capture and hanging.
December 15, 1965 • Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000.
December 15, 1987 • Flit vom Studer Schloss died.
December 16, 1930 • Baron Herman K. Lamm shot to death while attempting to rob Citizen's State Bank, Clinton, IN.
December 16, 1932 • Doc Barker, Fred Barker, Alvin Karpis, Jess Doyle, Bill Weaver, Larry DeVol and Verne Miller robbed Third Northwestern Bank, Minneapolis, MN, for $20,000., killing two policemen, and wounding a civilian.
December 16, 2014 • Wendy Rene died.
December 17, 1915 • Cordella Stevenson, a black woman, is repeatedly raped by dozens of white men and lynched, Columbus, MS. Her naked body is left on a telephone pole for 2 days before it is cut down.
December 17, 1959 • Roger Touhy shot and killed, Chicago, IL.
December 17, 1975 • Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Manson disciple, sentenced to life in prison for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.
December 18, 1918 • Al Capone married Mae Coughlin.
December 18, 1925 • Pretty Boy Floyd imprisoned State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, MO, for robbery, sentenced to 5 years.
December 18, 1931 • Fred Barker and Alvin Karpis robbed store, West Plains, MO.
December 18, 1931 • Legs Diamond shot and killed, Albany, New York.
December 19, 1931 • Fred Barker and Alvin Karpis killed Sheriff, West Plains, MO.
December 19, 2000 • All-Tooth Day - 32 teeth removed.
December 20, 1986 • Howard Beach racial incident, NY, 1 dead, several injured.
December 21, 1933 • Bonnie and Clyde robbed citizen, Shreveport, LA.
December 21, 1992 • Albert King died, Memphis.
December 21, 2007 • Ike Turner's funeral.
December 22, 1971 • Winnie Ruth Judd, murderess, released from Arizona State Prison.
December 25, 1932 • Clyde and W.D.Jones stole car and killed Doyle Johnson, Temple, TX.
December 25, 2006 • James Brown died.
December 27, 1931 • Buck Barrow surrendered himself at Huntsville Penitentiary.
December 29, 1942 • Roger Touhy arrested by FBI agents, Chicago, IL.
December 29, 1975 • 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport, NYC.
December 30, 1962 • Patricia Bissette, 23, raped, strangled by Boston Strangler.
December 30, 1999 • First stroke.
December 31, 1977 • Ted Bundy escapes jail, Colorado.

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