On this day in 1950, two members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. Their ultimate gameplan was to secure Puerto Rican independence from America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1984, India’s first female P.M., Indira Gandhi, was assassinated outside of her home in New Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1831, Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, Virginia, weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1901, 28-year-old Leon Czolgosz was executed via electric chair for fatally shooting U.S. President William McKinley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1895, serial killer H.H. Holmes went on trial for murder in Philadelphia. He refused a court appointed lawyer, opting to defend himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1659, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson became the first Quakers to be executed for their religion in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 2007, Lisa Montgomery was given the death penalty for murdering 8-months-pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cutting the baby from her womb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1929, President Harding’s interior secretary, Albert B. Fall, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1986, the British government cut diplomatic ties with Syria over a failed airplane bombing — an attack that was allegedly planned by Syrian intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1982, police in southern Arizona engaged in a deadly shootout with members of the Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1934, Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd died after a shootout with the police. He was wanted for the Kansas City Massacre, a violent altercation in July 1933 that took the lives of three police officers and one FBI agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 2009, Alyssa Bustamante killed her 9-year-old next-door neighbor, Elizabeth Olten. Bustamante was only 15 when she committed the murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 2003, 40-year-old Kirk Jones threw himself over Niagara Falls... and miraculously survived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 2000, serial killer Robert Lee Yates, Jr. pled guilty to thirteen murders. It marked an end to Yates’ nearly 25-year murder spree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1985, South African authorities executed Black activist Benjamin Moloise after he was convicted of murdering a police officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1931, 32-year-old gangster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion, finally ending his violent reign as ‘Public Enemy Number One.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1965, British police found the body of missing 10-year-old girl, Lesley Ann Downey. Lesley was one of the five young victims of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1991, Clarence Thomas was narrowly confirmed to the Supreme Court — despite allegations of sexual harassment by Thomas’s former aide, Anita Hill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1912, saloonkeeper John Schrank shot U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. The bullet remained lodged in Roosevelt’s chest for the rest of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in the year 54 CE, Roman Emperor Claudius was poisoned by his wife Agrippina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1978, 20-year-old Nancy Spungen — the girlfriend of former Sex Pistols’ bassist Sid Vicious — was found dead. She had succumbed to a stab wound on a hotel bathroom floor… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 2002, a Black businessman named Kenneth Bridges died in a random shooting. His murderers came to be known as the Beltway Snipers for their senseless three-week killing spree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 2003, the Associated Press first reported on a dangerous Mexican drug cartel known as the Zetas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 2002, serial killer Aileen Wuornos was executed by the state of Florida. Twelve years earlier, Aileen murdered as many as seven men in cold blood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1987, the town of Hungerford in Berkshire, England held a memorial service for 16 residents—all of whom were slain in a vicious shooting spree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 2019, four students attacked their classmate, 14 year-old Devan Bracci-Selvey. Devan was stabbed to death outside of his high school in Hamilton, Ontario. Guest hosted by Alastair Murden, host of Superstitions, the new Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1866, the notorious Reno Brothers and their gang committed the first successful peacetime train robbery in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1945, police clashed with striking workers outside of the Warner Brothers Studio. The incident forever changed labor relations in the Motion Picture Industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1936, the British Union of Fascists violently clashed with antifascist organizations. Over 150 people were injured in the confrontation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1981, Northern Ireland’s H-Block Hunger Strike ended after 217 days. The movement sought better treatment for inmates at Long Kesh Prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
