Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot by FBI agents in a corn
field in East Liverpool, Ohio. Floyd, who had been a hotly
pursued fugitive for four years, used his last breath to deny
his involvement in the infamous Kansas City Massacre, in
which four officers were shot to death at a train station. He
died shortly thereafter.

Charles Arthur Floyd
(February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934)

F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover,declared Floyd to be "public
enemy number one."

After two unsuccessful attempts, the USS Constitution was
launched in Boston Harbor. The a 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate,
built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli, performed commendably during those conflicts, and in 1805 a peace treaty
with Tripoli was signed on the Constitution‘s deck.

The USS Constitution is the world’s oldest commissioned naval
warship still afloat. 

Constitution fires her cannons as she is tugged through
Boston Harbor in 2021.

Three musicians from the iconic American rock band Lynyrd
Skynyrd, plus three others, were killed in a terrifying plane
crash on the Louisiana-Mississippi border on this day in
history, Oct. 20, 1977.

Lead singer and founder Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve
Gaines, and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines, were
all killed on impact.

The crash of the small Convair CV-240 passenger plane also
claimed the lives of assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick,
pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray. 

(FOX NEWS) – Founding Father John Jay, a towering
figure among the intellectual giants who forged the
nation, was sworn in as first chief justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States on this day in
history, Oct. 19, 1789.

The New York native held the title until resigning in
1795, among the shortest tenures for the prestigious
lifetime appointment.

Only 16 other people have held the title of Supreme
Court chief justice in the 227 years since.

Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General
Lord Cornwallis surrendered 8,000 British soldiers and
seamen to a  larger Franco-American force on October
19, 1781, effectively bringing an end to the American
Revolution.