31st year - N° 268 Saturday, 24 September 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 268 Saturday, 24 September 2016

24 September / Today's 12 Events:

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(+) 120 years ago Thursday 24th of September 1896 Writer Scott F. Francis Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States.

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(+) 114 years ago Wednesday 24th of September 1902 Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini is born in Khūmaīn, Iran.

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(+) 105 years ago Sunday 24th of September 1911 Soviet leader Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko is born in Bolshaya Tes, Russia.

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(-) 93 years ago Monday 24th of September 1923 Paul Bronichewski 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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(+) 80 years ago Thursday 24th of September 1936 Puppeteer, cartoonist, screenwriter and film director Jim James Maury Henson known for creating The Muppets is born in Greenville, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 78 years ago Saturday 24th of September 1938 Murderer George Ball aka George Sumner aka The Sack Murderer commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 46 in The Sociable Inn, Farm to Market Road 327, Elmendorf, Texas, United States. Ball is known to have killed two and said to have killed as many as 20 women whose remains were fed to his five pet alligators. When two Bexar County sheriff's deputies went to question him, Ball pulled a handgun from his cash register and killed himself with a bullet through the heart.

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(x) 42 years ago Tuesday 24th of September 1974 47-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 21 years ago Sunday 24th of September 1995 Spree killer Éric Borel commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 17 in Solliès-Pont, Provence, France. Borel first shot his stepfather Yves Bichet, his 11-year-old half-brother Jean-Yves Bichet. Then he went to the neighbouring village of Cuers and shot dead 12 people with a .22 rifle.

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(-) 15 years ago Monday 24th of September 2001 Artist and event organiser Franz Ferdinand Feigl dies of cancer at the age of 43 in Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Jan Tooropstraat 164, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 12 years ago Friday 24th of September 2004 Writer Françoise Sagan, originally Françoise Quoirez dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 69 in Honfleur, Basse-Normandie, France.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 24th of September 2005 An army of DDVs in an art installation at the Convergence exhibition in 798 Art District, Dashanzi, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(-) 7 years ago Thursday 24th of September 2009 Member of the 'Manson Family' Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz dies of brain cancer at the age of 61 in Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla, California, United States.

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