September 30, 1888: Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. Stride’s body was discovered at about 1 a.m. in Dutfield’s Yard, off Berner Street, and Eddowes’ body was found in Mitre Square in the City of London, three-quarters of an hour after Stride’s

Martha Turner is found stabbed to death in Whitechapet, possibly Jack the Ripper’s first victim. – Theophilus van Kannelof Philadi’Iphia patents the revolving door