1819 E.R. Squibb - US pharmaceutical manufacturer

I wonder what he'd think of Big Pharma today.

1943 Geraldo Rivera - TV talk show host and journalist

Remember when he made that big production about opening up Al Capone's vault? As if Al Capone would leave anything behind in it.

1954 Marilyn Sheppard – Wife of Dr. Sam Sheppard. She was beaten to death inside their suburban home in Cleveland, Ohio. Her husband claimed to have returned home to find a man with bushy hair fleeing the scene, but the authorities did not believe his story and charged him with killing his pregnant wife. Sheppard was convicted of the murder, but appealed to the Supreme Court and got his conviction overturned in 1966, on the argument that the circumstances of the trial, and the ensuing publicity, had unfairly influenced the jury. In 1998, DNA tests on physical evidence found at Sheppard's house revealed that there had indeed been another man at the murder scene. The sensational case inspired the TV show, The Fugitive.

This was such a big deal at the time. I still think he did it or had someone do it for him.

1904 Work began on the Panama Canal

I wonder if we'll take it back.