On this day: October 12
POSTED: 10:50 AM PDT Oct 11, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 11, 2012
Christopher Columbus lands in the New World, Oktoberfest finds its roots, Sid is arrested for allegedly killing Nancy, and Matthew Shepard dies, all on this day.
FBI
1933: Members of John Dillinger's gang impersonate Indiana State Police officers to break Dillinger out of the Allen County jail in Lima, Ohio. Claiming they had come to extradite Dillinger to Indiana, they shoot Sheriff Jess Sarber when he asks for their credentials and then release Dillinger from his cell. Sarber was the gang's first police killing of an estimated 13 lawmen deaths by Dillinger gang members.
