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."

In 1897, in LeRoy, New York, carpenter and cough syrup
manufacturer Pearle Bixby Wait trademarked a gelatin
dessert called "Jell-O". Wait and his wife, May, added
strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon flavoring to
granulated gelatin and sugar.

Pearle Bixby Wait (1873 – 1915)

NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. —Lt. Cmdr.
Lyndsay P. Evans, 31, left, a naval flight officer, and Lt. 
Serena N. Wileman, 31, a naval aviator, were killed Tuesday
afternoon, Oct. 15, when their EA-18G Growler crashed near
Mount Rainier during a routine training flight at around 3:30
PM Pacific time. 

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.

Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian)

SINGER Cher Proudly Declares… ‘I Changed the
SOUND OF Music Forever’ in HER 2024 Rock Hall
Induction Speech.