31st year - N° 277 Monday, 3 October 2016

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31st year - N° 277 Monday, 3 October 2016

3 October / Today's 20 Events:

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(x) 407 years ago Saturday 3rd of October 1609 Painter Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 167 years ago Wednesday 3rd of October 1849 40-year-old Writer Edgar Allan Poe is found on the streets of Baltimore by Joseph W. Walker, delirious and "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance" in East Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Poe was taken to the Washington Medical College where he died on 7 October 1849.

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(+) 149 years ago Thursday 3rd of October 1867 Artist Pierre Bonnard is born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 132 years ago Friday 3rd of October 1884 Artist Hans Makart known for his influence on Gustav Klimt dies of general paralysis of the insane due to syphilis at the age of 44 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 119 years ago Sunday 3rd of October 1897 Poet and writer Louis Aragon, originally Louis Andrieux is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 91 years ago Saturday 3rd of October 1925 Writer Gore Eugene Louis Vidal is born in Cadet Hospital, 900 Washington Road, West Point, New York, United States.

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(+) 80 years ago Saturday 3rd of October 1936 Minimal composer Steve Stephen Michael Reich is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 78 years ago Monday 3rd of October 1938 Singer-songwriter and musician Eddie Edward Raymond Cochran is born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Tuesday 3rd of October 1967 Singer-songwriter Woody Woodrow Wilson Guthrie dies of Huntington's Disease at the age of 55 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago Tuesday 3rd of October 1967 32-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker sets fire to a building he owns in 2039 East Fletcher Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was the fourth time in five years that Kallinger set fire to this building. He was charged with arson but released by lack of evidence.

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(+) 47 years ago She Was a Hollaback Baby Friday 3rd of October 1969 Singer-songwriter Gwen Renée Stefani is born in Fullerton, California, United States.

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(x) 45 years ago Sunday 3rd of October 1971 25-year-old Artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'I Became a Secret Hippy' in Museum of Conceptual Art, 86 Third Street, San Francisco, California, United States. The piece began when I took my clothes off, jeans and a t-shirt, and lay on my floor on my back. A friend hammered a star-shaped stud into my sternum. I then sat in a chair and had all my hair cut off. Finally, I dressed in some FBI clothes I had bought for the piece.

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(x) 32 years ago Wednesday 3rd of October 1984 Second bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in M.A.N. Truck & Bus, Gossetlaan 13a, Dilbeek, Brabant, Belgium. It was the second action in their Première Campagne Anti-Impérialiste d'Octobre.

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(x) 30 years ago Friday 3rd of October 1986 34-year-old Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer is sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murder of Daniel Bridges in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Eyler was also sentenced to fifteen years in prison for aggravated kidnapping and five years for attempting to conceal his victim's death.

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(-) 29 years ago Saturday 3rd of October 1987 Susan Hellams is strangled by serial killer Timothy Spencer in 514 West 31st Street, Richmond, Virginia, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago War das Sein Letzte Taxi Monday 3rd of October 1988 Bayerischer Ministerpräsident Franz Josef Strauß dies of general organ failure at the age of 73 in Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg, Bayern, Germany. Strauss collapsed two days earlier while hunting in the Thurn und Taxis forests.

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(x) 20 years ago Thursday 3rd of October 1996 36-year-old Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker marries 41-year-old Doreen Lioy who described herself as a virgin prior to her marriage in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. For many years before Ramirez's death Lioy stated that she would commit suicide when Ramirez was executed. However, Doreen Lioy and Richard Ramirez eventually separated before his death on 7 June 2013.

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(-) 18 years ago Saturday 3rd of October 1998 Actor Roddy Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall known from Planet of the Apes dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 3rd of October 2001 Test-running a video project for 75 years NMBS in Centraal Station, Astridplein, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 12 years ago Her Right Hand Didn't Go to Work Sunday 3rd of October 2004 Actress Janet Leigh, originally Jeanette Helen Morrison dies of a heart attack at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Leigh suffered from vasculitis and peripheral neuropathy which caused her right hand to become gangrenous.

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