Law and Order? Events for April 2005
© 2005 Wayne A. Meyer
1 1929 Criminal Court House "26th Street" opens for business.
2 1932 Charles Lindbergh pays $50,000 ransom in vain for kidnapped son.
3 1967 Speck's murder trial starts.
4 1968 Martin Luther King shot and killed.
5 1892 "Bathhouse" John is elected 1st Ward alderman.
6 1992 Arizona executes (by gas) first person in 29 years; a confessed killer of seven.
7 1979 Gacy's house is torn down.
8 1996 Unabomber's lawyer asks judge to stop defense lawyers from soliciting his client.
9 1979 Unabomber's second bomb explodes in Evanston.
10 1994 Gacy tells press he didn't do it.
11 1993 Ohio convicts beat seven fellow inmates to death to protest prison conditions.
12 1989 Abbie Hoffman found dead.
13 1998 Murder becomes the second leading cause of death in the workplace.
14 1865 John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln.
15 1965 The "In Cold Blood" killers hanged.
16 2002 Judge approves 140 million in bonuses for top Enron executives.
17 1995 ACLU opposes testing of newborns for AIDS because of invasion of baby’s privacy.
18 1996 Baylor University allows dancing after a 151 year ban.
19 1993 Mrs. Wallace hangs her son, Joseph in Chicago.
20 1960 Witherspoon convicted of murder & sentenced to death.
21 1992 Alton Harris is first California execution in 25 years
22 2000 Sox & Detroit players riot on field.
23 1996 Bronx jury awards Bernhard Goetz' stickup man 43 million.
24 1995 Unabomber strikes for the 16th time and kills for the third time.
25 1792 First person executed by guillotine.
26 1865 John Wilkes Booth killed.
27 1926 ASA William McSwigg, while with members of rival gang, is killed by Al Capone gang.
28 1789 Crew on HMS Bounty mutinies.
29 1992 LA mob kills 50 & injures 2400 to protest the Rodney King verdict.
30 1945 Hitler & Eva Braun commit suicide.