Saturday 17th of April 1790 (-) — Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin dies of a pleuritic attack.
Wednesday 29th of January 1845 (x) — The Evening Mirror first publishes 'The Raven' by Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe .
He was paid $9 for its publication.
Wednesday 9th of May 1860 (+) — Murderer William Kemmler is born.
Monday 30th of September 1861 (+) — Chewing gum industrialist William Wrigley is born.
Wednesday 27th of August 1890 (+) — Artist Man Ray is born.
Monday 28th of October 1895 (x) — Start of the trial against Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes for the murder of the Pitezel children in the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
Holmes gave various contradictory accounts of his life, claiming initially innocence and later that he was possessed by Satan.
Friday 26th of August 1898 (+) — Art collector, bohemian and socialite Peggy Guggenheim is born.
Monday 16th of December 1901 (+) — Anthropologist Margaret Mead is born.
Thursday 20th of October 1904 (x) — Bigamist and multiple murderer Johann Otto Hoch marries Caroline Streicher as John Schmidt.
Wednesday 7th of April 1915 (+) — Singer-songwriter Billie Holiday is born.
Monday 31st of January 1921 (+) — Tenor and actor Mario Lanza is born.
Wednesday 27th of September 1922 (+) — Film director Arthur Penn is born.
Wednesday 25th of June 1924 (+) — Film director Sidney Lumet is born.
Wednesday 27th of April 1927 (-) — Victim of Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer Mary McConnell is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer.
Tuesday 12th of November 1929 (+) — Actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly is born.
Thursday 30th of January 1930 (+) — Tire salesman and would-be assassin Samuel Byck is born.
Sunday 26th of July 1931 (+) — Founder of MOVE black liberation group John Africa is born.
Sunday 15th of October 1939 (x) — Serial killer Joseph Kallinger is adopted by Stephen and Anna Kallinger.
Kallinger was abused by both his adoptive parents so severely that at age six he suffered a hernia inflicted by his adoptive father. The punishments Kallinger endured included kneeling on jagged rocks, being locked inside closets, consuming excrement, committing self-injury, being burned with irons, being whipped with belts and being starved.
Sunday 8th of September 1940 (+) — Teen idol Frankie Avalon is born.
Sunday 10th of January 1943 (+) — Singer-songwriter Jim Croce is born.
Wednesday 4th of October 1944 (+) — Singer Patti LaBelle is born.
Wednesday 31st of August 1949 (+) — Actor Richard Gere is born.
Saturday 14th of November 1953 (+) — Victim of Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker Patty Higgins is born.
Sunday 28th of March 1954 (+) — Psychotic murderer Morris Mason is born.
Friday 23rd of July 1954 (+) — Writer, sex educator, former prostitute, feminist stripper and pornographic actress Annie Sprinkle is born.
Wednesday 9th of September 1959 (+) — Serial killer Harrison Graham is born.
Saturday 20th of February 1960 (x) — Joey, the son of Serial killer Joseph Kallinger is born.
Monday 25th of December 1961 (+) — Son of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker Michael Kallinger is born.
Friday 29th of September 1961 (x) — Stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist Lenny Bruce is arrested for possession of narcotics.
Sunday 30th of January 1972 (x) — Serial killer Joseph Kallinger is arrested and charged with child abuse.
Saturday 26th of August 1972 (x) — Serial killer Joseph Kallinger is released from prison on bail after being charged with child-abuse.
Wednesday 4th of April 1973 (x) — Son and victim of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker Joey Kallinger is arrested and charged with vandalism, trespassing and conspiracy.
Sunday 28th of July 1974 (-) — Son and victim of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker Joey Kallinger is drowned by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker.
Joseph and his other son Michael were supposedly going to take some pictures of Joey, chained to a ladder in a flooded basement.
Friday 17th of January 1975 (x) — Serial killer Joseph Kallinger and his 13-year-old son Michael are arrested and charged with rape, robbery and murder.
Thursday 2nd of April 1987 (x) — Serial killer Gary Heidnik tries to commit suicide by hanging from a shower pipe at the Philadelphia Detention Center.
