On this day
6 June
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1881
Virgil Earp is appointed Tombstone's town marshal.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Acquitted
About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing.
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1939
Crater is declared legally dead.
Judge Crater Unsolved
On 6 August 1930 a New York judge left a Midtown chophouse and was never seen again. The 'missingest man in America' and the Tammany scandal around him.