This Day…

1877 – Bat Masterson is elected sheriff of Ford County, Kansas.

1879 – Humorist Will Rogers is born in Indian Territory, Oklahoma.

A fire in Sacramento, California, destroys 75 percent of the city – 2,500 buildings.

1863-Future outlaw, Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum is born in San Saba County, Texas.

1881 – The “Gunfight at the OK Corral” took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.

1989 – Reverend Jim Bakker was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $500,000 for his conviction on 24 counts of fraud. In 1991, his sentence was reduced to eighteen years and he was released on parole after a total five years in prison.

1836 – Sam Houston becomes the first President of Texas.

1921-12-23 Gangster Carlo Gambino enters the United States as an illegal immigrant on the SS Vincenzo Florio.

On September 30, 1982, 6 unsuspecting people took Tylenol brand acetaminophen capsules that had been filled with potassium cyanide, killing those unfortunates nearly instantly. A seventh person later died by the same unknown perpetrator and copy-cat crimes killed a few more. The murders were never solved.