30th year - N° 251 Tuesday, 8 September 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 251 Tuesday, 8 September 2015

8 September / Today's 20 Events:

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(+) 858 years ago His Hair Was Between Red and Blond Sunday 8th of September 1157 King of England Richard I aka Richard the Lionheart aka Richard Coeur de Lion is born in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 174 years ago Wednesday 8th of September 1841 Writer, lawyer and assassin Charles Julius Guiteau known for the killing of President James A. Garfield is born in Freeport, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 174 years ago Wednesday 8th of September 1841 Composer Antonín Leopold Dvořák is born in č. p. 12, Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 142 years ago Monday 8th of September 1873 Anarchist and assassin Sante Geronimo Caserio is born in Motta Visconti, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 142 years ago Il Était Ubu Monday 8th of September 1873 Symbolist writer Alfred Jarry aka The Father of Pataphysics is born in Laval, Mayenne, France.

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(-) 127 years ago Saturday 8th of September 1888 Annie Chapman, originally Eliza Ann Smith aka Dark Annie is stabbed to death, her throat cut, her body ripped open and her uterus removed from the abdomen by unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper in 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 120 years ago Kam Sein Opel zum Stillstand Sunday 8th of September 1895 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Adam Opel dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Rüsselsheim, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 114 years ago Sunday 8th of September 1901 Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd aka The Architect of Apartheid is born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 106 years ago Wednesday 8th of September 1909 Tennis player and murderer Vere St. Leger Thomas Goold commits suicide at the age of 56 in Îles du Salut, Guyane, France.

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(+) 90 years ago He Was a Pink Baby Tuesday 8th of September 1925 Actor Peter Richard Henry Sellers known for his role as The Pink Panther is born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 78 years ago Wednesday 8th of September 1937 Joseph Couffy is shot in the back of the neck by kidnapper and multiple murderer Eugen Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil in Tours, Centre, France.

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(+) 75 years ago He Was a Beach Blanket Baby Sunday 8th of September 1940 Teen idol Frankie Avalon, originally Francis Thomas Avallone is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 67 years ago Wednesday 8th of September 1948 21-year-old Serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer is transferred to the maximum security prison in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

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(-) 66 years ago Thursday 8th of September 1949 Composer Richard Georg Strauss known for Der Rosenkavalier dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 59 years ago Saturday 8th of September 1956 Musician Frank Francis John Tovey aka Fad Gadget is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 52 years ago Sunday 8th of September 1963 Evelyn Poirier Corbin is strangled and grossly exposed by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 224 Lafayette Street, Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Saturday 8th of September 1979 The body of 41-year-old Actress Jean Dorothy Seberg is found naked under a blanket in the backseat of her white Renault 5 in Rue du Général-Appert, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Seberg committed suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol on 30 August 1979. Her suicide note read "Diego, mon fils chéri, pardonne-moi. Je ne pouvais plus vivre. Comprends-moi."

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16 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 8th of September 1999 The Pinckers' enjoying a tasty late night dinner in Newton Circus Food Court, Singapore, Singapore.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 8th of September 2003 An elephant parade passing by the offices in NICC, Museumstraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 12 years ago Monday 8th of September 2003 Dancer, actress, film director and photographer Leni Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl dies of cancer at the age of 101 in Pöcking, Bayern, Germany.

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