Birthdays: Max Schreck, Tommy Lee Wallace, Idris Elba, Naomie HarrisMovie releases: The Phantom of the Opera, The Terror, The Ghastly Ones, Hellraiser: HellworldVideo game releases: Dead Island
Lover murdered at lake
September 6, 1952 Sharonville, Ohio Betty Butler strangles and drowns her lover, Evelyn Clark Butler, Clark, and a friend named Dezzie Ivory had been fishing at the lake in Sharon Woods. Butler and Clark got into an argument while on the water which continued after the three returned to shore. Once ashore, in front of…
Assassination of William McKinley
September 6, 1901 Buffalo, New York Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots President William McKinley twice in the abdomen Czolgosz turned to anarchism after he lost his job during the Panic of 1893, an economic depression that lasted 4 years. Czolgosz believed McKinley was a symbol of a corrupt government and it was his duty as an…
Man kills neighbors after gate stolen
September 6, 1949 Camden, New Jersey Howard Unruh began a "Walk of Death" in which he shot at his neighbors while he leisurely walked down the street, killing 13 and wounding 3 Unruh became paranoid of his neighbors and kept a diary of all the things he believed they said against him. Next to some…
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