1792: Five Days of Mob Killing End as the September Massacres Claim Half of Paris Prisons
Over five days in September 1792, mobs stormed nine prisons across Paris and carried out mass summary executions of those held within. Read more →
1901: Leon Czolgosz Shoots President McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition
On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot twice in the abdomen while shaking hands with the public at the Temple of Music during the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Read more →
1924: John Dillinger Commits His First Crime: A Robbery That Set a Legend in Motion
On 6 September 1924, twenty-one-year-old John Dillinger joined his friend Edgar Singleton in robbing a local grocer, Frank Morgan, as he returned home carrying the week’s takings. Read more →
1971: Man Commits Mass Murder: Freed Eight Years Later to Start a New Life
On the night of 6 September 1971, dairy farmer Clifford Bartholomew murdered ten members of his family at their Hope Forest property south of Adelaide, including his wife, seven children aged between four and 19, his sister-in-law and his infant nephew. Read more →
1991: Pee Wee Gaskins Executed for a Murder Committed Behind Bars
Donald Henry Gaskins Jr., known as Pee Wee Gaskins, was executed in the electric chair at Broad River Correctional Institution in South Carolina at 1:10 a.m. Read more →
