Today is Thursday, October 1, 2026

Today in
Crime History

1993 - 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted from her home in Petaluma, CA, by an intruder.

1996 - A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb murder of an ad executive.

Today in
Disaster History

1987 - In Los Angeles, CA, eight people were killed when an earthquake hit measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale.

1995 - Southwestern Turkey experienced an earthquake that killed about 90 people.

Today in
Death History

1992 - The USS Saratoga accidentally fired missiles at a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea. Five people were killed in the incident.





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