31st year - N° 286 Wednesday, 12 October 2016

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31st year - N° 286 Wednesday, 12 October 2016

12 October / Today's 18 Events:

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(+) 141 years ago Tuesday 12th of October 1875 Occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter and mountaineer Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast is born in 30 Clarendon Square, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 125 years ago Monday 12th of October 1891 Martyr and saint of the Catholic Church Edith Stein aka St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross is born in Breslau, Schlesien, Germany.

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(-) 93 years ago Friday 12th of October 1923 Wilhelm Erdner 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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(-) 87 years ago Saturday 12th of October 1929 Elisabeth Dörrier is beaten to death with a hammer by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Torfbruch, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 81 years ago Saturday 12th of October 1935 Tenor Luciano Pavarotti is born in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 72 years ago Thursday 12th of October 1944 Assassin Josef Erwin Bachmann known for shooting Rudi Dutschke is born in Reichenbach im Vogtland, Sachsen, Germany.

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(+) 70 years ago Saturday 12th of October 1946 Neighbour to David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam John Carr aka Wheaties is born in Yonkers, New York, United States.

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(+) 67 years ago Wednesday 12th of October 1949 Terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal is born in Michelena, Estado Táchira, Venezuela.

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(-) 49 years ago Thursday 12th of October 1967 Reyer de Bruijn is beaten to death by serial killer Hans van Zon in Heeswijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Afterwards van Zon returned to cut de Bruijn's throat.

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(x) 47 years ago Sunday 12th of October 1969 35-year-old Family leader Charles Milles Manson, originally no name Maddox known for conspiracy to murder Sharon Tate is arrested in a police-raid in Barker Ranch, Death Valley National Park, California, United States. Manson was hiding in a small cupboard under a bathroom sink and spotted by his hair sticking out of the door. Also arrested are Beth Tracy aka Collie Sinclair, Diane Bluestein aka Shake Lake, Sherry Andrews aka Claudia Leigh Smith, John Philip Haught aka Zero Christopher Jesus, Kenneth R. Brown aka Scott Bell Davis, Lee Hamic aka William Rex Cole aka Bill Vance, Vern Edward Thompson aka Plumlee, Lawrence L. Bailey aka Little Larry and Bruce Davis. They are all charged with auto- theft.

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(-) 42 years ago Saturday 12th of October 1974 Cult victim Arlis Kay Perry is sexually assaulted with altar candles, tortured and ritually murdered by cultists at the age of 19 in Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford, California, United States.

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(-) 38 years ago Thursday 12th of October 1978 Nancy Laura Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy is stabbed to death by musician Sid Vicious in Hotel Chelsea, 222 West 23rd Street, New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Sunday 12th of October 1980 34-year-old Mass murderer Freddy Horion aka De Zonnebril tries to escape from prison by use of a replica handgun made out of breadcrumb in De Nieuwe Wandeling, Nieuwewandeling 89, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Horion was caught on the roof of the prison.

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(x) 34 years ago Tuesday 12th of October 1982 Craig Townsend is handcuffed, severely beaten up and left in a coma by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Interstate 65, Lowell, Indiana, United States. Townsend had escaped from the hospital before detectives completed their investigation of the unprovoked assault.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 12th of October 1984 Spree killer Linwood Earl Briley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Mecklenburg Correctional Center, Boydton, Virginia, United States.

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(x) 31 years ago Saturday 12th of October 1985 Seventeenth and eighteenth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Fabrimetal, Rue Puissant d'Agimont 15, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium. A tax office in the same street was also bombed. It was the second action in their Campagne Karl Marx.

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(-) 12 years ago Tuesday 12th of October 2004 Murderer Donald Loren Aldrich is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Aldrich's last meal request was for chef salad with French/Ranch dressing, fried chicken breasts and legs, french fries, a cheeseburger, chocolate cake, deviled eggs, and biscuits with gravy.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 12th of October 2005 In 1927 the Kuomintang carried out a purge of suspected communists in Shanghai. Thousands of victims of this purge were brought to the temple grounds to be executed in Longhua Martyrs Cemetery, Shanghai, China.

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