31st year - N° 280 Thursday, 6 October 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 280 Thursday, 6 October 2016

6 October / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 129 years ago Thursday 6th of October 1887 Urban planner and pioneer modern architecture Le Corbusier, originally Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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(-) 124 years ago Thursday 6th of October 1892 Poet Alfred Tennyson dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Aldworth, Blackdown, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 109 years ago Sunday 6th of October 1907 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Alfred Hogrefe is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 103 years ago War Sie Meretlein Monday 6th of October 1913 Surrealist artist Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim is born in Joachim-Friedrich-Straße 48, Halensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 102 years ago Tuesday 6th of October 1914 Adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl is born in Larvik, Vestfold, Norway.

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(+) 74 years ago Tuesday 6th of October 1942 Actress and sex symbol Britt Ekland, originally Britt-Marie Eklund is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

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(-) 65 years ago Saturday 6th of October 1951 Industrialist in food manufacturing Will Keith Kellogg known for Kellogg’s cereals dies of heart failure at the age of 91 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 54 years ago Saturday 6th of October 1962 Film director Tod Charles Albert Browning dies of throat cancer at the age of 82 in Malibu, California, United States.

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(x) 54 years ago Saturday 6th of October 1962 37-year-old Stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist Lenny Bruce, originally Leonard Alfred Schneider is arrested for possession of narcotics in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 28 years ago Thursday 6th of October 1988 Mass murderer Sulejman Talović is born in Cerska, Republika Srpska, Bosnia.

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(-) 27 years ago Friday 6th of October 1989 Actress Bette Ruth Elizabeth Davis dies of breast cancer at the age of 81 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 23 years ago He Wasn't Inspired no More Wednesday 6th of October 1993 Truck driver Larry Lawrence Richard Walters aka Lawnchair Larry aka The Lawn Chair Pilot commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 44 in Angeles National Forest, California, United States. Walters achieved dubious fame in 1982 when he piloted an aluminium lawn chair attached to 42 helium weather balloons, dubbed 'Inspiration I', 16.000 feet above from San Pedro to Long Beach.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 6th of October 2006 A gun made of cardboard, breadcrumb and shoepolish by multiple murderer Freddy Horion with whom I corresponded from 1987 onwards at the Voorbij Goed & Kwaad exhibition in Museum Dr. Guislain, Jozef Guislainstraat 43, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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