Birthdays: Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum, Carmen Ejogo, Kyle Gallner Movie releases: Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Grudge Television premieres: Monsters
Clippings of tragedies and crimes
From the Chicago Daily Tribune Published October 22, 1925 Budapest, Hungary Decatur, Illinois Negaunee, Michigan Gray, Georgia Tulsa, Oklahoma Two deputies fought so violently one nearly has his ears torn off. A 35-year-old woman died of fright after seeing her car on fire. A 14-year-old boy lost in a blizzard died while a 17-year-old survived…
Teenager’s apparent suicide, impaled on flagpole
October 22, 1976 Buffalo, New York Bobby Jackson (19) dies after being impaled by a flagpole Officially, Jackson's death was ruled as a suicide. He jumped from the 28th story of Buffalo City Hall, intent on dying from the 250 foot drop. It was suggested a gust of wind changed his intended trajectory to the…
Pretty Boy Floyd killed
October 22, 1934 East Liverpool, Ohio Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd is killed by federal agents while evading arrest Pretty Boy Floyd was a notorious bank robber and gangster, and was promoted to Public Enemy No. 1 by the FBI after John Dillinger's death on July 23, 1934. His short 30 years of life were…