Friday, October 31, 2014

29th year - N° 304 Friday, 31 October 2014

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29th year - N° 304 Friday, 31 October 2014

31 October / Today's 7 Events:
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108 years ago

Wednesday 31st of October 1906

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Fritz Franke is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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96 years ago

Thursday 31st of October 1918

Artist Egon Schiele dies of Spanish flu at the age of 28 in Hietzinger Hauptstraße 114, Wien, Wien, Austria.

Schiele's wife Edith died three days earlier in their house in Wattmanngasse 6.


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94 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1920

Photographer Helmut Newton, originally Helmut Neustädter is born in Innsbrucker Straße 24, Schöneberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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88 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1926

Illusionist, magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, originally Erik Weisz aka The Handcuff King dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 52 in Grace Hospital Room #401, Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Eyewitnesses to an incident at Houdini's dressing room in the Princess Theatre in Montreal gave rise to speculation that Houdini's death was caused by McGill University student Joselyn Gordon Whitehead who delivered a surprise attack of multiple blows to Houdini's abdomen.


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60 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1954

Victim of Dennis Nilsen aka Killing for Company Graham Archibald Allen aka Puggy is born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.


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21 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1993

Film director Federico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in .

Fellini had suffered a second stroke and fell into an irreversible coma a couple of months earlier.



9 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 31st of October 2005

An uneventful pig tattoo session at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.


Thursday, October 30, 2014

29th year - N° 303 Thursday, 30 October 2014

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29th year - N° 303 Thursday, 30 October 2014

30 October / Today's 7 Events:
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157 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1857

Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Édouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, Poitou-Charentes, France.


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48 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1966

Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh is born in Az-Zarqā, Muħāfazat az-Zarqā, Jordan.


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35 years ago

Tuesday 30th of October 1979

Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Étang Rompu, Yvelines, Rambouillet, Île-de-France, France.

His final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback."


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32 years ago

Saturday 30th of October 1982

Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Joliet, Illinois, United States.


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29 years ago

Wednesday 30th of October 1985

25-year-old Mass murderess Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist shoots 2-year-old Recife Cosmen, Earl Trout and Augustus Ferrara in a shooting spree because "My family makes me nervous" in Springfield Mall, 1250 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, Pennsylvania, United States.

Seegrist also wounded seven people.


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24 years ago

Tuesday 30th of October 1990

Escape artist Joseph Burrus aka Amazing Joe is crushed by a load of concrete in a 'buried alive' magician's trick at the age of 32 in Blackbeard's Family Fun Center, 4055 N Chestnut Diagonal, Fresno, California, United States.

As trick-and-treaters watched in shock rescuers frantically dug Burrus out but were unable to reach him in time.



9 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 30th of October 2005

Enjoying a tasty meal at the 'Happy Forest' village restaurant with Belgian cyclists Bavo and Sofie in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.


Wednesday, October 29, 2014

29th year - N° 302 Wednesday, 29 October 2014

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29th year - N° 302 Wednesday, 29 October 2014

29 October / Today's 13 Events:
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117 years ago

Friday 29th of October 1897

Nazi leader and Reichspropagandaleiter Joseph Paul Goebbels is born in Rheydt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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84 years ago

Wednesday 29th of October 1930

Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.


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82 years ago

Saturday 29th of October 1932

Artist R. B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj is born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States.


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82 years ago

Saturday 29th of October 1932

Serial killer Velma Margie Barfield, originally Margie Velma Bullard is born in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.


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65 years ago

Saturday 29th of October 1949

Occult teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff dies due to injuries suffered in a car crash in 1948 at the age of 83 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.


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57 years ago

Tuesday 29th of October 1957

Luxury call girl Rosemarie Rosalie Marie Auguste Nitribitt is strangled and beaten to death by persons unknown at the age of 24 in Stiftstraße 36, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

Several prominent citizens were exposed as Nitribitt's personal acquaintances. When it became clear that the police would not be able to find the murderer it was insinuated in the media that high-ranking personalities were trying to thwart any attempts at solving the crime.


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51 years ago

Tuesday 29th of October 1963

15-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer attempts to commit suicide by opening a vein with a pen in the City Jail in Santa Cruz, California, United States.


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48 years ago

Saturday 29th of October 1966

41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 33 / Aktionskonzert für Al Hansen' in Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Grünangergasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.


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27 years ago

Thursday 29th of October 1987

Geneviève M. is attacked by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in XIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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17 years ago

Wednesday 29th of October 1997

Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey, originally Howard Stanton Levey dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 67 in St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States.

LaVey was taken to St. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, because it was the closest available. For reasons open to speculation the time and date of his death was incorrectly (by two days) listed as the morning of Halloween on his death certificate.



9 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 29th of October 2005

Gardenworks on Art Farm, since we had no heavy equipment on hand some back-to-basics techniques were necessary to move a couple of nasty boulders in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.


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8 years ago

Sunday 29th of October 2006

97 die in Aviation Development Company Flight 53 Boeing 737-2B7 crash in Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria.

There were nine survivors.


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3 years ago

Saturday 29th of October 2011

52-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Music for Excavations at 8213 West Summerdale Drive' in Cultuurcentrum, Minderbroedersgang 5, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

A music performance with machines and voice.


Tuesday, October 28, 2014

29th year - N° 301 Tuesday, 28 October 2014

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29th year - N° 301 Tuesday, 28 October 2014

28 October / Today's 7 Events:
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119 years ago

Monday 28th of October 1895

Start of the trial against 34-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor for the murder of the Pitezel children in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Holmes gave various contradictory accounts of his life, claiming initially innocence and later that he was possessed by Satan.


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116 years ago

Friday 28th of October 1898

29-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is sentenced to death in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France.

Vacher was sentenced for the murder of Victor Portalier only.


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105 years ago

Thursday 28th of October 1909

Artist Francis Bacon is born in 63 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.


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60 years ago

Thursday 28th of October 1954

Start of the trial against 54-year-old Murderess Styllou Pantopiou Christofi for murder of her 36-year-old daughter-in-law Hella Christofis, in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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27 years ago

Wednesday 28th of October 1987

Surrealist artist André Aimé-René Masson dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.



8 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 28th of October 2006

The one and only official band photo of Bum Collar depicting Mauro Pawlowski, Paul Mennes, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Danny Devos in Fundação De Serralves, Porto, Norte, Portugal.


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6 years ago

Tuesday 28th of October 2008

Double murderer Michitoshi Kuma is executed by hanging at the age of 70 in Fukuoka Detention Center, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.

Kuma was hanged for the kidnapping and murder of two 7-year-old girls on 20 February 1992 in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture.


Monday, October 27, 2014

29th year - N° 300 Monday, 27 October 2014

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29th year - N° 300 Monday, 27 October 2014

27 October / Today's 11 Events:
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232 years ago

Sunday 27th of October 1782

Composer Niccolò Paganini is born in Genova, Liguria, United States.


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133 years ago

Thursday 27th of October 1881

Victim of Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais Marie-Thérèse Marchadier aka La Belle Mytèse is born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.


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115 years ago

Friday 27th of October 1899

Manfred Louis Masset is beaten and suffocated by murderess Louise Masset in Dalston Junction railway station, Hackney, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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95 years ago

Monday 27th of October 1919

Mike Michele Pepitone is attacked by serial killer The Axeman of New Orleans in South Scott and Ulloa Streets, Mid-City, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Pepitone's head had been bashed 18 times with at least one weapon. He was rushed to Charity Hospital but within two hours he was pronounced dead. Pepitone was the twelfth and last known victim of The Axeman of New Orleans.


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91 years ago

Saturday 27th of October 1923

Pop artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein is born in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.


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91 years ago

Saturday 27th of October 1923

Heinz Brinkmann is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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86 years ago

Saturday 27th of October 1928

Mass murderer Perry Edward Smith aka In Cold Blood is born in Huntington, Nevada, United States.


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75 years ago

Friday 27th of October 1939

Actor John Marwood Cleese is born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, United Kingdom.


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50 years ago

Tuesday 27th of October 1964

An unidentified girl is raped and abused by 33-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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31 years ago

Thursday 27th of October 1983

44-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter is arrested in Hansen's Bakery, Ninth and Ingra, Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

Whilst Hansen was being interviewed a team of officers was searching his house. Behind wooden panelling in his trophy room police found items of cheap jewellery that was later traced back to the dead girls. Police also found a Ruger Mini-14 hunting rifle hidden under floorboards, which was later matched by ballistics as being the weapon that had killed Sherry Morrow and Paula Goulding. The most telling item found was an aviation map of the Anchorage region which was dotted with 20 drawn on asterisks. Two of these corresponded with site s where bodies had been found and a third indicated the spot where the body of 24-year-old prostitute Joanne Messina was found in July 1980.



8 years ago The Eyes had it

Friday 27th of October 2006

A statue of the dead Christ in Igreja do Carmo, Rua do Carmo, Porto, Norte, Portugal.


Sunday, October 26, 2014

29th year - N° 299 Sunday, 26 October 2014

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29th year - N° 299 Sunday, 26 October 2014

26 October / Today's 7 Events:
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574 years ago

Monday 26th of October 1440

Baron, knight, companion-in-arms of Jeanne D'Arc and serial killer of children Gilles de Rais, originally Gilles de Montmorency-Laval aka Gilles de Retz is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Île de Biesse, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France.

de Rais' body and those of his accomplices Henriet and Poitou, also hanged, are thrown into the fire.


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116 years ago

Wednesday 26th of October 1898

Start of the trial against 29-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France.

Vacher entered the courtroom with "J'ai une balle dans la tête" written on a panel and shouting "Vive Jésus ! Vive Jeanne d'Arc".


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73 years ago

Sunday 26th of October 1941

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Holger Klaus Meins is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.


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50 years ago

Monday 26th of October 1964

Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Fremantle Prison, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.


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49 years ago

Tuesday 26th of October 1965

Sylvia Marie Likens dies of a brain hemorrhage, shock and malnutrition after multiple beatings, burnings and scalding baths by Gertrud Baniszewski at the age of 16 in 3850 East New York Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

Baniszewski encouraged neighborhood children to torment Likens, including extinguishing cigarettes on her skin and forcing her to remove her clothes and insert a glass Coca-Cola bottle into her vagina on at least two occasions. Shortly before Likens died Baniszewski began to carve the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it!" into Likens' stomach with a heated needle.


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42 years ago

Thursday 26th of October 1972

Aviation pioneer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Easton, Connecticut, United States.



9 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 26th of October 2005

The Art Farm landlord posing proudly before its gate in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.