FALL RIVER, Mass. (TND) — August 4, 2022, marks 130 years
since Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were killed in their Massachusetts home.

The double homicide remains one of the most notorious unsolved murders in American history.

Borden was accused of killing her father, Andrew, and stepmother,
Abby, in their home at 230 Second St. in Fall River. She was later acquitted but many people believed — and still believe — she
committed the crimes.

THE LIZZIE BORDEN HOME TODAY.

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.

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

Colt Model 1873 revolver.

The poker hand purportedly held by Hickok at his demise.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

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.

MIKE  GRACIA

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

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