Related events:

1. Thursday 12th of January 1860 (-) — Murderer Patrick Maude is executed by hanging
   The execution took place in the large hall of the jail, used as a dining-room, and was witnessed by about 300 persons. The gallows was erected at the north end of the hall, and consisted of a cross-beam supported by two uprights. A rope, to the end of which was attached a hook, passed over a pulley in the centre of the cross beam, and thence down one of the uprights through the floor. Attached to the end were five fifty-sixty pound weights, held by a catch, so arranged that by springing it with a treadle the weights would fall a distance of six feet.

2. Wednesday 15th of August 1877 (x) — Inventor Thomas Edison makes the first phonograph recording
   Edison recorded 'Mary had a Little Lamp'.

3. Thursday 3rd of June 1926 (+) — Beat poet Allen Ginsberg is born
   

4. Friday 2nd of May 1930 (x) — Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Fish is arrested for vagrancy
   

5. Sunday 19th of March 1933 (+) — Writer Philip Roth is born
   

6. Wednesday 11th of September 1940 (+) — Film director Brian de Palma is born
   

7. Monday 13th of October 1941 (+) — Singer-songwriter and musician Paul Simon is born
   

8. Friday 9th of August 1963 (+) — Singer, actress and model Whitney Houston is born