1925 - Alan Geoffrey Yates, who writes hundreds of potboilers as Carter Brown, is born in London. He wrote such books as Shamus, Your Slip is Showing (1955), Blonde, Beautiful and Blam! (1956) and Who Killed Dr. Sex (1964)
1966 - Student Charles Whitman climbs a tower at the University of Texas at Austin, armed with several weapons. At 11:48am he opens fire. He is killed an hour and a half later by 3 policemen. In between times, he kills 21 people and wounds 28 others. (Wikipedia says killed 14 people and wounded 32 others). [Whitman suffered from a brain tumor that may have contributed to his psychotic outburst on this day.]
Source: The Mystery Book of Days, Mysterious Press, 1990
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