Wild Bill Hickok

Two soldiers from Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment, walked into Drum’s Saloon at Hays City on July 17, 1870 and got into a gunfight with James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, who was also the city marshal.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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Edward G. Mathey, Company M, Seventh Cavalry

First Lieutenant Edward G. Mathey, later a lieutenant colonel, Company M, 7th Cavalry died on July 17, 1915 at Denver, Colorado.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess, Deputy to the Führer until 1941, born April 26, 1894 in Alexandria, Egypt, winner of the Nazi Party Blood Order, fled to England May 10, 1941, convicted at Nürnberg for crimes against peace and war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment, committed suicide under mysterious circumstances July 17, 1987 at Spandau Prison, said of Adolf Hitler in 1945: “I suppose every genius has a demon in him.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)

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On Saturday, July 17, 1943, the U.S. Army hanged Private James E. Kendrick at Oran, Algeria for the crimes of murder and rape.  (The Fifth Field: The Story of the 96 American Soldiers Sentenced to Death and Executed in Europe and North Africa in World War II)