ED DONAHUE

James Abram Garfield
(November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881)

President James A. Garfield, who had been in
office just under four months, succumbed to
wounds inflicted by an assassin 80 days
earlier, on July 2.       

On August 10, 1977, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz
was arrested and charged with being the “Son of Sam,” the serial
killer who terrorized New York City for more than a year, killing
six young people and wounding seven others with a .44-caliber
revolver. Because Berkowitz generally targeted attractive young
women with long brown hair, hundreds of young women had their
hair cut short and dyed blonde during the time he terrorized the
city. Thousands more simply stayed home at night.

After his arrest, Berkowitz claimed that demons and a black
Labrador retriever owned by a neighbor named Sam had
ordered him to commit the killings. 

David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco)
Turned 70 June 1st.

Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. Simpson’s
ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally stabbed to
death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, California, in what
quickly becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the
century. With overwhelming evidence against him, including a
prior record of domestic violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson
became the chief suspect.

Although he had agreed to turn himself in, Simpson escaped
with  friend A.C. Cowlings in his white Ford Bronco (below) on
June 17. He was carrying his passport, a disguise, and $8,750
in cash. Simpson’s car was spotted that afternoon, but he
refused to surrender immediately. Threatening to kill himself,
he led police in a low-speed chase through the freeways of
Los Angeles as the entire nation watched on television.
Eventually, Simpson gave himself up at his home in
Brentwood.

   
JOHN BELMONT                                 

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English singer,
songwriter, and television personality. He rose to fame
during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal
band Black Sabbath, during which period he adopted the
nickname "Prince of Darkness".  He is 74 years old today.

On September 10, 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named
George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk
driving after slamming his cab into a building. He later pleaded
guilty and was fined 25 shillings.

In the United States, the first laws against operating a motor
vehicle while under the influence of alcohol went into effect 
in New York in 1910.