Almanac of Absurdities 8/31/2010

Big Time Crime day: In the early morning hours of this day in 1888 Mary Ann Nichols, a 43 year old Whitechapel Prostitute, was found gruesomely murdered, the first victim of the killer who came to be called Jack the Ripper. On this date in 1948, actor Robert Mitchum was busted in a Hollywood Drug Raid. He ended up doing 60 Days for Conspiracy to Possess Marijuana. Van Morrison’s Birthday.