The day before, with Heirens's parents and the victims' families attending and Chief Justice Harold G. Ward presiding, Heirens admitted his guilt on the burglary and murder charges. (5 September 1946)
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Thursday 2nd of November 1944 (-) — Engineer and chemist Thomas Midgley dies of strangulation. Midgley accidently strangled himself with an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys he designed himself to lift him from his bed since he was struck by poliomyelitis in 1940.