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Unable to afford care for their chronically ill 3-year-old, they left her at a SF gas station in 1965 hoping for better help. Found next day and adopted. In 1975 she was confirmed alive; charges dropped and a Christmas visit planned.
Antonio Rivera looks at his lawyer at a hearing.
He and his ex-wife Merla Walpole were accused of murdering their daughter, who disappeared at age 3 in 1965.
Nine months after the two were arrested, their daughter was found alive and adopted by a new family (San Bernardino, 1975).
The creepiest photos ever taken: bit.ly/3MhKiB3
16 October 1906: A German shoemaker named Wilhelm Voigt disguised himself as a Prussian military officer, rounded up a small group of unsuspecting soldiers, occupied the town hall of Köpenick, and confiscated the municipal treasury before calmly leaving.
16 October 1888 – The "From Hell" Letter: Jack the Ripper investigators received a sinister cardboard box containing half of a preserved human kidney and a letter signed "From Hell," mailed to George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.
16 October 1869: The "Cardiff Giant"—a 10-foot-long purported "petrified man" dug up in New York—was exposed as a massive archaeological hoax.
16 October 1839: Joseph Saxton, a machine inspector at the U.S. Mint, took the first surviving photographic picture (daguerreotype) in America.
The Council of Vienne (the 15th Ecumenical Council) opened on October 16, 1311, in Vienne, France, under the convocation of Pope Clement V.
Synthesis of Norethindrone on October 15, 1951: Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes, working alongside George Rosenkranz and Carl Djerassi in Mexico City, synthesized norethindrone—the key active progestin ingredient that made the oral contraceptive pill possible.
Grace Bedell Writes to Abraham Lincoln on 14 October 1860: An 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell wrote a letter to then-presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln advising him that he would look much better if he grew a beard, leading to his iconic bearded look.
15 October 1863 – Sinking of the H.L. Hunley: The pioneering Confederate hand-cranked submarine H.L. Hunley sank during a routine training exercise in Charleston Harbor, killing its inventor Horace L. Hunley and a seven-man crew (it was later raised and deployed again).
15 October 1796 – Alexander Hamilton’s Newspaper Attacks: In The Gazette of the United States, Alexander Hamilton launched a fierce, anonymous print attack against Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, marking a bitter escalation in early American partisan warfare.
One month after liberation, these Gusen survivors still bear starvation’s mark—refeeding too fast risked death. Typhus forced clothes burned & DDT dusting. Donald Dean’s photo freezes raw resilience after quarry hell.
14 October 2014 - In UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying soccer match between Serbia and Albania at Partizan Stadium in Belgrade was abandoned in the 41st minute at 0–0 as riots erupt after a drone carrying the flag of Greater Albania is flown over the field.
14 October 2006 - Grammy Award-winning singer Freddy Fender, whose country and Hispanic-flavoured music reached across ethnic boundaries to find a broad audience, died of cancer. He was 69.
14 October 2002 - Britain suspended Northern Ireland's power-sharing government after a spying row threw the fledgling peace process into its worst political crisis since 1998's peace accord.
14 October 2001 - Two days of anti-American riots in the northern Nigerian city of Kano ended. At least 200 people died in the riots, in which churches, mosques and shops were set on fire.
14 October 2005 - English actor Daniel Craig was named as the new movie James Bond, ending months of speculation over who would take over from Pierce Brosnan.
14 October 2003 - Moktar Ould Daddah, Mauritania's first president, died. He took power on independence from France in 1960.
