Wednesday 29th of April 1863 (+) — Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst is born
Wednesday 12th of January 1876 (+) — Writer, journalist and social activist Jack London is born
Monday 27th of May 1878 (+) — Dancer Isadora Duncan is born
Friday 19th of February 1897 (+) — Actress and stage performer Alma Rubens is born
Wednesday 12th of May 1897 (+) — Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson is born
Friday 26th of September 1902 (-) — Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss dies of unknown causes
Wednesday 29th of March 1911 (+) — Founder of the Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love Fountain of the World cult Krishna Venta is born
Tuesday 21st of May 1918 (x) — Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson assaults an unidentified girl
Saturday 21st of May 1921 (x) — Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson is sentenced for assault on 12-year-old Mary Summers and committed to Napa State Mental Hospital
Thursday 2nd of August 1923 (-) — 29th President of the United States Warren Harding dies of a heart attack
Tuesday 29th of September 1925 (+) — Murderer Arthur Ross Brown is born
Saturday 20th of February 1926 (-) — Victim of Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer Clara Newman is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer
Newman was Nelson's first victim.
Thursday 10th of June 1926 (-) — Victim of Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer Lilian St. Mary is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer
Thursday 18th of November 1926 (-) — Victim of Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer Wilhelmina Edmunds is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer
Sunday 24th of November 1929 (+) — Major of San Francisco George Moscone is born
Tuesday 6th of May 1930 (+) — Serial killer David Carpenter is born
Saturday 31st of May 1930 (+) — Actor and film director Clint Eastwood is born
Monday 22nd of January 1934 (+) — Actor Bill Bixby is born
Wednesday 2nd of November 1938 (+) — Sculptor Richard Serra is born
Wednesday 20th of July 1938 (+) — Actress Natalie Wood is born
Saturday 1st of August 1942 (+) — Musician Jerry Garcia is born
Saturday 20th of July 1946 (+) — Serial killer Leonard Lake is born
Wednesday 8th of May 1946 (+) — Black Zebra killer J.C.X. Simon is born
Friday 19th of September 1947 (+) — Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Nancy Ling Perry is born
Saturday 22nd of November 1947 (+) — Possible victim of the Zodiac Killer Alexandra Gery is born
Saturday 20th of February 1954 (+) — Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Hearst is born
Thursday 9th of February 1956 (x) — Serial killer Leslie Irvin is arrested while trying to pawn some rings taken in a Los Angeles burglary
Monday 25th of March 1957 (x) — The poem 'Howl' by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg being imported from the printer in London is seized by customs as obscene
On 3 October 1957 Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene.
Saturday 25th of May 1957 (+) — Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Aiko Koo is born
Saturday 6th of April 1957 (+) — Victim of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Stranglers Kristina Weckler is born
Tuesday 19th of November 1963 (+) — Spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement Zeena LaVey is born
Saturday 30th of April 1966 (x) — Founder of the Church of Satan Anton LaVey announces the establishment of the one and only Church of Satan
Tuesday 23rd of May 1967 (x) — Spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement Zeena LaVey becomes the first person to receive a legal and most highly publicized Satanic baptism ever
Monday 11th of September 1967 (x) — Family leader Charles Manson records 14 tracks of his music
All Manson's tracks appear on the Lp 'Lie: The Love and Terror Cult' that was distributed during his trial for the Tate/LaBianca murders in 1970.
Friday 9th of August 1968 (x) — Family leader Charles Manson overdubs some tracks of his music
All tracks appear on the Lp "Lie: The Love and Terror Cult" that was distributed during Manson's trial for the Tate/LaBianca murders in 1970.
Thursday 7th of August 1969 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes his second 3-page letter to the Vallejo Times-Herald newspaper
Saturday 8th of November 1969 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer sends a new cipher and greeting-card to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
This is the Zodiac speaking I though you would need a good laugh before you hear - the bad news you won't get the news for a while yet - PS could you print this new cipher on your frunt page? I get awfully lonely - when I am ignored, so lonely I could do my Thing!!!!!! - Des July Aug Sept Oct = 7
Monday 13th of October 1969 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and includes a bloody scrap from Paul Stine, his eighth victim’s shirt
Saturday 20th of December 1969 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer sends a ‘Happy Christmas’ postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and adds a scrap of eight victim Paul Stine’s bloody shirt
Dear Melvin - This is the Zodiac speaking I wish you a happy Christmass. The one thing I ask of you is this, please help me. I cannot reach out for help because of this thing in me won't let me. I am finding it extreamly dificult to hold it in check I am afraid I will loose control again and take my nineth & posibly tenth victom. Please help me I am drownding. At the moment the children are safe from the bomb because it is so massive to dig in & the triger mech requires much work to get it adjusted just right. But if I hold back too long from no nine I will loose complet all controol of my self & set the bomb up. Please help me I can not remain in control for much longer.
Sunday 9th of November 1969 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes a 7-page letter to the San Francisco Chronicle stating that two policemen stopped and actually spoke with him three minutes after he shot Paul Stine
Excerpts from the letter were published in the Chronicle on 12 November including the Zodiac's claim.
Friday 29th of August 1969 (x) — Victim of Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate Gilbert Martinez is beaten and sexually assaulted by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate
Police arrived and arrested the assailant who identified himself as Albert Ralph Price although he carried identification with the name Hobert Prater and later proved to be Hatcher.
Wednesday 30th of July 1969 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers
Monday 20th of April 1970 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer sends a diagram how to blow up a schoolbus to the San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday 14th of September 1972 (-) — Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Aiko Koo is strangled and cut to pieces by Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer
Wednesday 25th of April 1973 (x) — Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher is sentenced to one year imprisonment for an attack on an unidentified boy
Monday 23rd of July 1973 (+) — White House intern Monica Lewinsky is born
Monday 28th of January 1974 (x) — 32-year-old Tana Smith, 45-year-old Jane Holly, 69-year-old Vincent Wollin and 84-year-old John Bambic are shot dead by Murder gang The Black Zebra Killers
23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down.
Tuesday 29th of January 1974 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer sends an ‘Exorcist’-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper
It was the Zodiac's last authenticated piece of correspondence.
Wednesday 3rd of April 1974 (x) — Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Hearst announces on an audiotape that she joined the Symbionese Liberation Army and assumed the name 'Tania'
'Tania' was inspired by the nom de guerre of Che Guevara's comrade Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider.
Wednesday 1st of May 1974 (x) — Murder gang The Black Zebra Killers JC Simon, Manuel Moore and Larry Green are arrested
Thursday 18th of September 1975 (x) — Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Hearst is arrested by the FBI and SFPD
Hearst and another SLA member, Wendy Yoshimura were arrested by FBI Agent Thomas Padden.
Thursday 15th of January 1976 (x) — Attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life imprisonment
"Am I sorry I tried? Yes and no. Yes, because it accomplished little except to throw away the rest of my life. And, no, I'm not sorry I tried, because at the time it seemed a correct expression of my anger."
Monday 24th of April 1978 (x) — Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes an ‘I am back’-letter to The San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday 14th of May 1981 (x) — Serial killer David Carpenter ia arrested in his parents' home after a week of surveillance
Monday 21st of October 1985 (-) — San Francisco supervisor and assassin Dan White commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning
The San Francisco Weekly has referred to White as "perhaps the most hated man in San Francisco's history."
Wednesday 28th of June 1995 (x) — Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore Kaczynski mails letters to the New York Times and Washington Post
Sunday 29th of July 2007 (-) — Television personality Tom Snyder dies of complications from leukemia
Friday 30th of June 2023 (-) — Electronic music pioneer Monte Cazazza dies of undisclosed causes
