1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. On this day in 1893, one of the most sensational murder trials in American history came to a shocking conclusion when a Massachusetts jury acquitted Lizzie Borden of murder—after just over an hour of deliberation. The 32-year-old was accused of killing her 70-year-old father and 64-year-old stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden, in the home they shared. While the trial was full of gruesome details, the prosecution was unable to provide concrete evidence of Lizzie Borden’s guilt, as only an axe head with no handle was found in their basement and had no blood on it, and the murders remain officially unsolved.
1975 – The film Jaws from Steven Spielberg is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as “summer blockbusters”.
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