On this day
7 November
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1881
Spicer revokes bail; Wyatt Earp and Holliday spend sixteen days in jail.
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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1908
Both men are found dead in the house in the morning.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Killed before trial
From Telluride to the Wild Bunch, Patagonia and a mule with the wrong brand: the trail that ended at San Vicente, Bolivia, in November 1908.
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1921
The trial opens before the assize court in Versailles.
Henri Désiré Landru Executed
A fugitive swindler answered wartime France's lonely-hearts columns. Eleven people who went with him to rented villas outside Paris were never seen again.
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1929
Five-year-old Gertrud Albermann is killed in Flingern.
Peter Kürten Executed
For fifteen months Düsseldorf hunted a killer it could not see. The break came from a survivor's letter, misaddressed and opened at the post office.