GALLERY: Deeply bitter at the racism he suffered in the Navy, US 23-year-old Mark Essex set out to murder white people and police in a series of sniper attacks. 9News
Killing two officers before fleeing on New Year's Eve 1972, Essex then murdered another seven people on January 7, 1973, before taking refuge on the roof of a New Orleans hotel.
While Báthory's servants were quickly executed for the murders, the countess herself was merely sentenced to house arrest in a castle.The first patent for motion picture film is granted to William Kennedy Dickson on January 7, 1894.The five-second film is the oldest surviving motion picture with a copyright.A London coroner deemed the shooting of a man mistaken for a ghost to be an act of wilful murder on January 6, 1803.
The attack was planned by the ex-husband of Tonya Harding, another figure skater and one of Kerrigan's chief rivals.Kerrigan recovered in time to compete in the 1994 Winter Olympics, where she won a silver medal. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered as they campaigned to register black people to vote in Mississippi.A bulk ore carrier collides with the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, killing 12 people on January 5, 1975.With visibility so low, four cars blindly drove over the gap, killing five occupants.One driver, Murray Ling, successfully stopped in time, but he was rear-ended by the car behind him, nearly pushing him over the edge.
The so-called "Yorkshire Ripper" murdered thirteen women and tried to kill seven others in a five-year stint between 1975 and 1980. Thomas Edison's company filmed the execution and released the short movie in coin-operated kinetoscopes.
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