← Previous revisionRevision as of 02:13, 29 October 2026 Line 127: Line 127: ==October 27, 1900 (Saturday)== ==October 27, 1900 (Saturday)== * [[Jimmy Governor]], Australian mass murderer, was captured after a three-month manhunt. His brother and partner in crime, Joe Governor, was killed while trying to elude capture on October 31. Jimmy, who had murdered nine people (including four children), was hanged in 1901.{{cite book |first1=Toby |last1=Creswell |author-link1=Toby Creswell |first2=Samantha |last2=Trenoweth |title=1001 Australians You Should Know |publisher=Pluto Press Australia |year=2006 |page=199}} * [[Jimmy Governor]], Australian mass murderer, was captured after a three-month manhunt. His brother and partner in crime, Joe Governor, was killed while trying to elude capture on October 31. Jimmy, who had murdered nine people (including four children), was hanged in 1901.{{cite book |first1=Toby |last1=Creswell |author-link1=Toby Creswell |first2=Samantha |last2=Trenoweth |title=1001 Australians You Should Know |publisher=Pluto Press Australia |year=2006 |page=199}} * The [[vaudeville]] team of Joe and Myra Keaton was appearing at a matinee show at the Wonderland Theater in [[Wilmington, Delaware]], when they decided to bring their five-year-old son on stage. Joseph Frank Keaton, nicknamed "Buster", was instructed to simply sit at the side and stare at this parents, and the theater manager, William Dockstader, told the parents that the child had been a distraction to the act. Days later, however, Dockstader allowed the child to appear in the Keaton family show because there would be children in the audience. This time, Joe made [[Buster Keaton]] part of continuing [[sketch comedy|comedy sketches]] about a mischievous child and an exasperated father, and the child began a career of making theater (and, later, film) audiences laugh.{{cite book |first=Marion |last=Meade |author-link=Marion Meade |title=Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase |publisher=[[Open Road Media]] |year=2014}} * The [[vaudeville]] team of Joe and Myra Keaton was appearing at a matinee show at the Wonderland Theater in [[Wilmington, Delaware]], when they decided to bring their five-year-old son on stage. Joseph Frank Keaton, nicknamed "Buster", was instructed to simply sit at the side and stare at his parents, and the theater manager, William Dockstader, told the parents that the child had been a distraction to the act. Days later, however, Dockstader allowed the child to appear in the Keaton family show because there would be children in the audience. This time, Joe made [[Buster Keaton]] part of continuing [[sketch comedy|comedy sketches]] about a mischievous child and an exasperated father, and the child began a career of making theater (and, later, film) audiences laugh.{{cite book |first=Marion |last=Meade |author-link=Marion Meade |title=Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase |publisher=[[Open Road Media]] |year=2014}} ==October 28, 1900 (Sunday)== ==October 28, 1900 (Sunday)==