Birth

1943 Allen Leroy Anderson - American spree killer

1951 Gerald Stano - American serial killer

1957 Ferdinand Gamper - Italian serial killer

1963 Sebastian Stephanous Bridges - American murderer

1964 Edward Nathaniel Bell - American murderer

1979 William Dathan Holbert - self-confessed murderer & cartel hitman

Event

1792 The court-martial begins for instigators of the "mutiny on the bounty" on board HMS Duke in Portsmouth harbor, presided over by Vice Admiral Samuel Hood

1910 The United States first known female police officer appointed, Alice Stebbins Wells by the LAPD

1970 US LSD Professor Timothy Leary escapes from a California jail

1977 Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody from his injuries after being beaten & tortured by police

1983 Security guard Victor Gerena robs the West Hartford company of $7m, he would later be added to the FBI Top Ten Most Wanted list

1995 INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer

2007 Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder

2018 More than 3,600 children reported abused by Catholic priests in Germany between 1946 - 2014 in a leaked report