Sunday, September 8, 2013

140 Years Ago Père Héb Était un Pataphysicien

1312 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 701
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84th Pope Sergius I dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.

856 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 1157
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King of England Richard I aka Richard the Lionheart, is born in Oxford, Beaumont Palace, England.

286 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 September 1727
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78 children Die in barn fire in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England.
They ware watching a puppet show.

172 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1841
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Assassin Charles Julius Guiteau aka The Man Who Shot President Garfield, is born in Freeport, Illinois, United States.

172 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1841
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Composer Antonín Leopold Dvorák is born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslowakia.

140 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 September 1873
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Dramatist Alfred Jarry is born in Laval, France.

140 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 September 1873
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Murderer of president Sadi Carnot, Geronimo Santo Caserio is born in Motta Visconti, Italy.

125 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 September 1888
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Annie Chapman aka Dark Annie, is stabbed to death, her throat cut, her body ripped open and her uterus removed from the abdomen by Jack the Ripper at the age of 47 in London, Spitalfields, 29 Hanbury Street, London City of, United Kingdom.

118 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 1895
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Automobile engineer Adam Opel dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Rüsselheim, Germany.

112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 1901
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Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd aka The Architect of Apartheid, is born in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1909
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Murderer John D. Roselain is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Oregon, United States.

98 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1915
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Black Mallie Wilson is lynched for accidently entering a white woman’s room in Dresden, Tennessee, United States.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 September 1922
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Murderer George Howard is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Oregon, United States.

88 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 September 1925
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Actor Peter Richard Henry Sellers aka The Pink Panther, is born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 September 1933
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Murderer Bryant Stone is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in North Carolina, United States.

79 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 September 1934
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134 Die in Morro Castle ocean liner fire in New Jersey, United States.

76 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1937
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Joseph Couffy is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, in Orleans, France.

73 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 1940
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Teen Idol Frankie Avalon originally Francis Thomas Avallone, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1943
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Italy surrenders to the Allied Forces in WWII.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1948
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A British De Havilland 08 Jet is the first aircraft to break the sound-barrier.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1948
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20-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is transferred to the maximum security prison in Sing Sing, New York, United States.

64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 September 1949
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Composer Richard Georg Strauss dies at the age of 85 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 September 1956
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Musician Frank Tovey aka Fad Gadget, is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

50 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 1963
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Evelyn Corbin is strangled and grossly exposed as eleventh victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 58 in Salem, 224 Lafayette Street, Massachusetts, United States.

48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 September 1965
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Actress Dorothy Jean Dandridge commits suicide by drug-overdose on Imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant at the age of 42 in West Hollywood, California, United States.
She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 September 1966
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The first episode of "Star Trek" - "The Man Trap" is aired in United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 1974
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June Lynch is attacked by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 17 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 September 1979
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Actress Jean Dorothy Seberg commits suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol in the back seat of her car at the age of 40 in Paris 16th, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 1985
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The ashes from victims who died in an airplane crash on 12 august are stolen from the crematorium by persons unknown in Gumma, Japan.

28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 September 1985
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Nadine Mauriot is shot dead and mutilated as fifteenth and sixteenth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 36 in Florence, Scopeti, Tuscany, Italy.
Nadine’s left breast and pubis had been removed.

16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 September 1997
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Over 300 Die in La Belle Gonaidienne Ferry shipwreck in Montruis, Haïti.

10 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 September 2003
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Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl dies of cancer at the age of 101 in Pöcking, Germany.

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