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1876: Wild Bill Hickok murdered.On this day, Wild Bill Hickok, born James Butler Hickok, a frontiersman, marksman, gambler, and legend of the American West, was murdered in the city of Deadwood, in what is now South Dakota. He was visiting the goldfields of the Black Hills. There, at a poker table in the Number Ten saloon, a drunken stranger named Jack McCall shot and killed Wild Bill. McCall's motive was never learned; he was tried, convicted of murder, and hanged on March 1, 1877.More events on this day1990:Iraq invaded Kuwait, the first in a series of events triggering the First Persian Gulf War. |
1943:The PT-109, a Navy torpedo boat under John F. Kennedy's command, was sunk by a Japanese destroyer. |
1920:Marcus Garvey, black leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, presented his Back to Africa movement at a convention in New York City. |
1830:Charles X of France abdicated the throne, unable to resist the July Revolution. |
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