Standing Rock Agency Lakota Camp
A 17-man detachment from Company M assisted in the capture of an escaped Indian prisoner at the Standing Rock Agency, returning to Fort Rice on March 19, 1875. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann, SS-Obersturmbannführer, born March 19, 1906 in Solingen, chief of Gestapo Section IV B 4 – Jewish Affairs – in the Reich Main Security Service (RSHA), major participant in the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution, significant figure in the destruction of European Jewry, winner of the War Service Cross 1st Class, abducted from Argentina by Israeli agents and convicted in Israel of crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity in 1961, executed by hanging May 31, 1962 at the Ayalon Prison in Israel, on himself:
“I will leap laughing to my grave, because the feeling that I have five million people on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction!” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)
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Chicago Crime Calendar
On March 19, 1943, facing extended incarceration for the extortion of Hollywood film studios and being claustrophobic, Chicago Outfit front boss Frank Nitti, born Francesco Raffaele Nitto, got drunk and publicly committed suicide on an Illinois Central railroad track, in North Riverside, blocks from his home. Using a .32 revolver, the first shot fired by Nitti’s unsteady hand missed and passed through his fedora. The second bullet penetrated into the right side of his jaw and exited through the top of his head. The third, and fatal bullet, entered behind Nitti’s right ear and lodged in the top of his skull.