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WILD BILL HICKOK WAS MURDERED IN 1876

A slightly smiling man dressed in an overcoat and sporting a mustauche and shoulder-length, curly hair stares ahead.
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876)

“Wild Bill” Hickok, one of the greatest gunfighters of the
American West, was murdered in Deadwood,
South Dakota
while  playing poker when Jack McCall walked up behind
Hickok,drew his Colt Model 1873 revolver and shot Hickok
in the back of the head at point-blank range, killing him
instantly.

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John McCall (
also known as "Crooked Nose" or
"Broken Nose Jack")  (1852 – 1877)

McCall was hanged in a public execution in
Yankton, at age 24.


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Colt Model 1873 revolver.

A 5-card stud poker hand lays on a table showing black aces and eights, with the hole-card face down
The poker hand purportedly held by Hickok at his demise.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

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THE REAL TRAGEDY ON THIS DAY IN 2021

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Ashli Elizabeth Pamatian Babbitt  (1985 – 2021)

 

On January 6, 2021, during the United States
Capitol attack
, Capitol Police officer Michael
Byrd (below) shot and killed UNARMED Ashli
Babbitt, one of the rioters, while ATTEMPTING
to breach a barricaded door leading to the
Speaker’s Lobby, where members of the u.s.
evacuated.



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MIKE  GRACIA

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Twinkies were invented in
Schiller Park, Illinois, on April 6, 1930, by James Alexander Dewar, a Canadian-born baker for the Continental Baking Company.

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James Alexander Dewar (February 5, 1897 – June 30, 1985)

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