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On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers. [1][2][3][4] The first incident took place during the sports segment of independent TV station WGN-TV 's ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
African-American NFL player and Olympic long jumper shot at a bar where he worked: Malcolm Lee Beggs: Chicago: 1956-12-10: Actor beaten to death with beer and whisky bottles in hotel room: Murder of Maria Ridulph: Sycamore: 1957-12-03: Seven-year-old girl disappeared and body found almost five months later: Benjamin F. Lewis: Chicago: 1963-02-28
April 14, 1930 (sentenced) Two counts of second-degree murder. 28–36 years imprisonment [ 215 ] Crane was convicted on September 25, 1929, of the murder of "his former sweetheart" [ 216 ] and on March 28, 1930, of the murder of the man accompanying her at the time of the shooting. [ 217 ] Trevor Crowe. Retired.
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970).
Shaun Gayle. Shaun Lanard Gayle (born March 8, 1962) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). He played twelve seasons, eleven for the Chicago Bears (1984–1994), and one for the San Diego Chargers (1995). He attended Ohio State University and was drafted by the Bears in ...
The Chicago Daily News Corporation, of which Strong was the major stockholder, bought the newspaper for $13.7 million (equivalent to $238 million in 2023) [5] —the highest price paid for a newspaper up to that time. [6] Strong was the president and publisher of the Chicago Daily News Corporation from December 1925 until his death in May 1931.
Killing of Dexter Reed. On March 21, 2024, Dexter Reed was shot and killed by officers of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in Humboldt Park, Chicago, United States. Reed fired his illegally owned gun and injured a police officer during a traffic stop, then police returned fire, discharging a number of rounds at Reed. [1][2]