31st year - N° 302 Friday, 28 October 2016

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31st year - N° 302 Friday, 28 October 2016

28 October / Today's 10 Events:

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(+) 550 years ago Sunday 28th of October 1466 Humanist and theologian Desiderius Roterodamus Erasmus is born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 121 years ago Monday 28th of October 1895 Start of the trial against 34-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor for the murder of the Pitezel children in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Holmes gave various contradictory accounts of his life, claiming initially innocence and later that he was possessed by Satan.

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(x) 118 years ago Friday 28th of October 1898 29-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is sentenced to death in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France. Vacher was sentenced for the murder of Victor Portalier only.

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(+) 113 years ago He Was Born in Great Haste Before Dr Andrews Could Arrive Wednesday 28th of October 1903 Writer Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh is born in Hillfield Road, Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 107 years ago Thursday 28th of October 1909 Artist Francis Bacon is born in 63 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(x) 62 years ago Thursday 28th of October 1954 Start of the trial against 54-year-old Murderess Styllou Pantopiou Christofi for murder of her 36-year-old daughter-in-law Hella Christofis, in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 49 years ago Saturday 28th of October 1967 Actress Julia Roberts is born in Smyrna, Georgia, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Wednesday 28th of October 1987 Surrealist artist André Aimé-René Masson dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 28th of October 2006 The one and only official band photo of Bum Collar depicting Mauro Pawlowski, Paul Mennes, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Danny Devos in Fundação De Serralves, Porto, Norte, Portugal.

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(-) 8 years ago Tuesday 28th of October 2008 Double murderer Michitoshi Kuma is executed by hanging at the age of 70 in Fukuoka Detention Center, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. Kuma was hanged for the kidnapping and murder of two 7-year-old girls on 20 February 1992 in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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