Captain Thomas H. French
Captain Thomas H. French, Company M, 7th Cavalry was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 5, 1843. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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On Thursday, March 5, 1874, north of the Yellowstone River, sunrise was at 6:46 a.m. The expedition traveled about eight miles to the east, before halting in the afternoon and establishing a laager for the night. Sunset occurred at 6:07 p.m. (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gold and Guns: The 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition and the Battle of Lodge Grass Creek)
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On March 5, 1945, Jay Lavinsky is evacuated to a hospital in the Netherlands after the previous day’s wounds near Derkum, Germany, when machine gun rounds strike him in the stomach, lower back, groin, pelvis, both legs, and a foot. (Dying Hard: Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division in World War II)
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Chicago Crime Calendar
On March 5, 2012, William Heirens, known as the “Lipstick Killer,” died at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. He confessed to three gruesome murders in 1945, sentenced to life, and was transferred to the Dixon Correctional Center minimum security prison in 1998. At one murder site he had written in lipstick a message on the wall: “For heavens Sake catch me Before I kill more I cannot control myself.”