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bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.”
the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
Nazi Germany began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
the militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.
Walter “Fred” Morrison applied for a patent for a “flying toy” which became known as the Frisbee.
American author, historian and poet Carl Sandburg died at his North Carolina home at age 89.
police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys. (Dahmer was later beaten to death by a fellow prison inmate.)
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was killed by security forces in December 1993.)
Anders Breivik, a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation’s worst violence since World War II.
The city manager, assistant manager and police chief of Bell, California, resigned after outraged residents found out through a Los Angeles Times investigation that the officials were making a total of more than $1.6 million a year.
A federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the young man accused of killing nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 counts including hate crimes that made him eligible for the death penalty. (Roof would become the first person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime; he is on death row at a federal prison in Indiana.)
“Old Town Road,” by Lil Nas X, remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a 16th week, tying a record set by Mariah Carey and Luis Fonsi.