* 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

from Retox, references include AC / DC, Spinal Tap ( Cleveland, Ohio ), Metallica, producer Bob Rock, Iggy Pop and James Williamson's album Kill City, The Stooges album Funhouse and notorious sports arena stampedes such as the one prior to a concert by The Who at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum, where 11 people died in December 1979.

As Michigan enacted alcohol prohibition earlier than Ohio, for a time this road was notorious for its use by bootleggers, bringing booze from Cincinnati, OH and Cleveland, OH into Detroit.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

The notorious guard Sejanus was murdered in 31 on the orders of Tiberius.

For nearly twenty years he battled an amphetamine addiction ; during the 1960s he was a patient of the notorious Max Jacobson, known as " Dr. Feelgood ", who administered injections of " vitamins with enzymes " that were in fact laced with amphetamines.

The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

By the 1970s the area was notorious for street robberies and drug dealing.

Another notorious cannibal was mountain man Boone Helm, who was known as " The Kentucky Cannibal " for eating several of his fellow travelers, from 1850 until his eventual hanging in 1864.

Hearst was notorious for his practice of yellow journalism, and he was frowned on by readers of The New York Times and other newspapers which featured few or no comic strips.

The council abolished some of the most notorious abuses and introduced or recommended disciplinary reforms affecting the sale of indulgences, the morals of convents, the education of the clergy, the non-residence of bishops ( also bishops having plurality of benefices, which was fairly common ), and the careless fulmination of censures, and forbade dueling.

Among the notorious ones was the Tambov rebellion.

Possibly the most notorious such vehicle was the former Soviet TMM bridging truck that could carry and launch a 10 meter bridge that could be daisy-chained with other TMM bridges to cross larger obstacles.

Captain William Kidd was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalisation of empire.

One year later, " Captain " Culliford, a notorious pirate, stole Kidd's ship while he was ashore at Antigua in the West Indies.

The Limehouse area in London was notorious for its opium dens, many of which catered for Chinese sailors as well as English addicts.

Further problems were caused by a notorious hooligan element among the support, which was to plague the club throughout the decade.

One of the most notorious propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will ( 1935 ), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.

The same source informs that Termerus and Lycus, two Lelegians " of beastly nature ", were said to be notorious robbers that raided Caria and also sailed as far as the island Kos for the same purpose ; the saying " Termerian mischief " was accordingly inspired by their deeds.

The notorious production did not go over well with city officials, and the theater was raided, with West arrested along with the cast.

In another, more notorious case, on 19 April 1921 they raided the Shannon Hotel in Castleconnell, County Limerick on a tip that there were suspicious characters drinking therein.

What begins as an investigation into the notorious ' Massed Flashers of Reigate ' is quickly overtaken by the revelation that the police force are moonlighting as shop assistants and builders, and a commune for policemen ( and women ) is raided by hippies looking for drugs.

In 1994, three bandits raided a boat and set it on fire, killing all 32 passengers on board, mainly Taiwanese tourists, in a notorious event named the Qiandao Lake Incident.

In late October of that year, in yet another notorious case, Dallas police raided her apartment and found four-fifths of an ounce of marijuana, which was said to be hidden in her bra.

The recent experiments in the new poetry-and-jazz movement seen by some as part of the `` San Francisco Renaissance '' have been as popular as they are notorious.

A notorious recent example is Fragments ( 1995 ) by ' Binjamin Wilkomirski '( Bruno Grosjean ).

The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

Primarily carried by rodents ( most notably rats ) and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death and devastation it brought.

In Shanghai, Chiang cultivated ties with the city's underworld gangs, dominated by the notorious Green Gang and its leader Du Yuesheng.

The rank 1 groups are the thin groups, classified by Aschbacher, and the rank 2 ones are the notorious quasithin groups, classified by Aschbacher and Smith.

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

This was considered beneficial in that it would promote structured programming, by making it impossible to use the notorious < CODE > GO TO </ CODE > statement as before.

For example, Jean-Baptiste Carrier became notorious for the Noyades (" drownings ") he organized in Nantes ; his conduct was judged unacceptable even by the Jacobin government and he was recalled.

The properties were notorious at the time for their extensive skimming operations ; according to the FBI, anywhere from $ 7 million to $ 15 million in funds from the Stardust were diverted to organized crime figures between 1974 and 1976 alone.

A plaque at the Barrington Park District in Barrington, Illinois commemorates the site of the The Battle of Barrington | Battle of Barrington, a 1934 shootout that claimed the lives of two Federal Bureau of Investigation | FBI agents and resulted in the death of notorious Chicago gangster Baby Face Nelson. A running gun battle between FBI agents and Nelson took place on November 27, 1934 outside Chicago, in the town of Barrington resulting in the deaths of Nelson and FBI Special Agents Herman " Ed " Hollis and Samuel P. Cowley.

Sherwood based the Duke Mantee character on John Dillinger, the notorious criminal who in 1933 was named the FBI's first " Public Enemy # 1 " by J. Edgar Hoover, and in 1934 was ambushed and gunned down in spectacular fashion by FBI agents.

The notorious American FBI agent caught spying for the Soviet Union ( later, Russia ), Robert Hanssen, took explicit photographs of his wife and sent them to a friend.

* Gregory Scarpa, Sr. – notorious hitman and FBI informant from the 1970s to 1994.