I tied my left leg to a tree by use of a rope.
Then applied a plaster cast over my leg and tree.
I cut myself loose and left the cast behind.
Quai St. Vincent - Lyon
1899 (+) Actor Fred Astaire originally Fréderic Austerlitz, is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
1904 (-) Explorer Sir Henry Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), dies at the age of 63 in London, United Kingdom.
1920 (x) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, marries Ethel Simpson Waddington in Halifax Registry Office, United Kingdom.
1924 (x) FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover is inaugurated as director of the Federal Bureau in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1933 (x) Thousands of ‘entartete’ books are burned by the Nazis on public squares in various cities, Germany.
1940 (x) Nazi-Germany attacks Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg.
1941 (x) Nazi leader Rudolf Hess flies to the United Kingdom, presumably with a peace-mission, but he crashes and is taken prisoner of war in Scotland, United Kingdom.
1955 (+) Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, is born in Decatur, Georgia, USA.
1977 (-) Actress Joan Crawford originally Lucille Fay LeSueur, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 73 in New York, New York, USA.
1987 (-) Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in in a prison, Japan.
He spent 39 years on Death Row.
1987 (x) 183 Die in Lot Iljoeshin 62 crash in Poland.
1987 (x) 8 members of the Terrorist Movement Irish Republican Army are killed in an ambushed police-attack in Loughall, Ireland.
1994 (-) Serial Killer John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is executed by lethal injection in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.
After the execution began, one of the three lethal drugs clogged the tube leading to Gacy's arm, and therefore stopped flowing. Blinds, covering the window through which witnesses observe the execution, were then drawn. The clogged tube was replaced with a new one, the blinds were opened, and the execution process resumed.
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