1917
Raymond Burr, who creates Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason in the late 1950s TV series, is born in New Westminster, British Columbia. In the late 1960s he will become Ironside. And ofcourse...you must see his performance in Rear Window (1952)
1924
In an attrmpt to commit the perfect crime, University of Chicago honor students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap and murder 14-year-old Bobbie Franks. (Hitchcock's 1948 film Rope is based on this case.)
1958
Touch of Evil, a dark tale of a psychopathic cop in a dangerous Mexican border town, starring Orson Welles and Charlton Heston, opens.
1989
Miami Vice, the "definitive" 1980s TV cop series, ends its 5 year run on NBC. The show makes a star of Don Johnson, revitalizes the Miami tourist trade, and creates a fashion craze for pastel t-shirts worn with oversize Italian sports jackets.
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