Sunday, September 29, 2013

100 Years Ago He Came to Town to Disappear

1778 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 September 235
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Pope Pontianus dies due to maltreatment in the Sardinian mines in Tavolara Island, Italy.

495 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1518
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Artist Tintoretto originally Jacopo Comin aka Il Furioso, is born in Venice, Italy.

466 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1547
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Writer Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes is born in Alcala de Henares, Spain.

442 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 1571
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Artist Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio is born in Milano, Milano, Italy.

255 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1758
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Admiral Horatio Nelson is born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England.

159 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1854
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Annie Palmer-Brooks is poisoned by William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the United Kingdom.

123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1890
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Olympe Buisson is killed as first victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 9 in France.

118 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1895
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Pierre Massot-Pelet is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 15 in France.

111 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1902
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Writer Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola dies of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide fumes at the age of 62 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1912
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Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni is born in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy.

101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1912
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Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, is born in Mundthofen, Prussia, Germany.

100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1913
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Scientist and engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 55 in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 1920
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Actor Peter Arne originally Peter Arne Albrecht, is born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1922
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Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1929
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Ida Reuter is bludgeoned to death and raped by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 40 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

82 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 September 1931
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Actress Anita Ekberg is born in Malmo, Sweden.

78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1935
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Musician Jerry Lee Lewis is born in Ferriday, Louisiana, United States.

74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1939
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Poland capitulates to Nazi-Germany .

72 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1941
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Serial Killer Frederick Walter Stephen West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, is born in Much Marcle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 1943
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Union leader and first free-elected president of Poland Lech Walesa is born in Poland.

56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1957
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250 Die in train collision in Montgomery, Pakistan.

52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1961
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35-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for possession of narcotics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1967
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Fifteenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeremiah Weinberger is born in Puerto Rico.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1969
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23-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested for ‘going equipped for theft’, carrying a hammer in Bradford, Mannington Area, United Kingdom.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1969
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Michael De Gruchy is battered to death by The Geoffrey Hammond Gang at the age of 29 in Wimbledon, United Kingdom.

43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 September 1970
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Between 9.48 hrs and 9.58 hrs, the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, robs the Berliner Bank at Rheinstrasse of 154.182,50 marks, the Sparkasse at Südwestkorso of 55.152 marks and the Sparkasse at Altonaer Strasse of 8.115 marks in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
In the Altonaer Strasse Ulrike Meinhof forgets a box with 97.000 marks.

43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 September 1970
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Lawyer and Rote Armee Fraktion founding member Horst Mahler is arrested in Berlin, Knesebeckstrasse 89, Berlin, Germany.
Three more RAF members are arrested the same night.

39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1974
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Ann Dawson is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1974
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Donna Braun is presumably strangled as forty-sixth victim by Zodiac at the age of 14 in Monterey, California, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 September 1979
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Ex-dictator Francisco Macias Nguema is executed in Equatorial Guinea.

34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 September 1979
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Anarchy!" in Bergen-op-Zoom, Galerie Valckesteyn, Netherlands.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 1982
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First Chicago Tylenol murder victim Mary Kellerman dies after taking a capsule of Extra Strength Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide at the age of 12 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States.
In all seven people died by the unidentified poisoner.

16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1997
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Artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in New York, New York, United States.

3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 2010
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Actor Tony Curtis originally Bernard Schwartz, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

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