31st year - N° 311 Sunday, 6 November 2016

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31st year - N° 311 Sunday, 6 November 2016

6 November / Today's 23 Events:

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(-) 610 years ago Thursday 6th of November 1406 204th Pope Innocentius VII, originally Cosimo de' Migliorati dies of natural causes at the age of 67 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 324 years ago Thursday 6th of November 1692 Poet Louis Racine is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 202 years ago Sunday 6th of November 1814 Musician and musical instrument designer Adolphe Antoine-Joseph Sax known for inventing the saxophone is born in Dinant, Namur, Belgium.

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(+) 181 years ago Friday 6th of November 1835 Criminologist Cesare Ezechia Marco Lombroso is born in Verona, Veneto, Italy.

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(-) 176 years ago Friday 6th of November 1840 Multiple murderer Robert McConaghy is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in State Correctional Institution, 1100 Pike Street, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States. The rope snapped and McConaghy fell on the floor. While a new rope was prepared McConaghy gave a chilling account of his methodical slaughter of his father-in-law's wife and five children.

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(+) 136 years ago Saturday 6th of November 1880 Modernist writer Robert Mathias Musil known for his novel ‘Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften’ is born in Bahnhofstraße 50, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Kärnten, Austria.

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(-) 123 years ago He Drank a Glass of Unboiled Water Monday 6th of November 1893 Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies of cholera at the age of 53 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. While Tchaikovsky's death has traditionally been attributed to cholera, most probably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier from the local river, some have theorized that his death was a suicide.

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(+) 97 years ago Thursday 6th of November 1919 Bandleader and composer Ray Joseph Raymond Conniff is born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 87 years ago He Didn't Forget About 50 Cents Wednesday 6th of November 1929 Cop killer Rollin Davisson is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Livingston, Montana, United States. Davisson had killed Chief of Police Peter Holt because the latter had told him to forget about 50 cents an employer owed him.

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(-) 86 years ago Thursday 6th of November 1930 Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Psychiatrische Klinik der Universitären Psychiatrischen Dienste Bern, Bolligenstrasse 111, Waldau, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(+) 85 years ago He Was Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf Friday 6th of November 1931 Film and theatre director Mike Nichols, originally Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 70 years ago Wednesday 6th of November 1946 Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Bartsch was an illegitimate child whose birth mother died of tuberculosis soon afterward, and he spent the first months of his life being cared for by nurses. At 11 months he was adopted by a butcher and his wife in Langenberg, who gave him the name Jürgen Bartsch.

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(+) 61 years ago Sunday 6th of November 1955 Spree killer Alton Coleman is born in Waukegan, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 60 years ago Tuesday 6th of November 1956 Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Dutroux is born in Elsene, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(x) 58 years ago Thursday 6th of November 1958 16-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) takes her first communion and receives a white prayer book from uncle Bert and auntie Kath Maybury in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Years later, a ticket found in this book led the police to a locker in the railwaystation where Hindley's lover Ian Brady kept pictures and tape-recordings of their crimes.

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(-) 51 years ago Saturday 6th of November 1965 Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse aka The Stratospheric Colossus of Sound dies of natural causes at the age of 82 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Wednesday 6th of November 1974 Carswell Carr is stabbed to death by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Wednesday 6th of November 1974 Amanda Beth Carr is strangled by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. Knowles attempted to engage in necrophilia with her corpse after murdering Amanda, but his attempts were unsuccessful.

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(-) 39 years ago Sunday 6th of November 1977 Lissa Elissa Teresa Kastin is abducted and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 703 East Colorado Street, Glendale, California, United States. Kastin's nude body was left on a highway embankment near the Chevy Chase Country Club in Glendale.

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(-) 26 years ago Tuesday 6th of November 1990 Svetlana Korostik is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Donleskhoz, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Chikatilo removed the tip of Korostik's tongue and nipples and ate them at the scene before he covered her naked body with leaves. Korostik was Chikatilo's 53rd and last victim, he was arrested on 20 November 1990 because a policeman had noticed Chikatilo approach a well and wash his face after he left the scene of the murder.

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(-) 19 years ago Thursday 6th of November 1997 Murderer Aaron Lee Fuller is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 6th of November 1999 William Shatner aka Captain James Kirk from Star Trek popping up at a conference on Media Art in Fabrimetal, Rue Puissant d'Agimont 15, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 6th of November 2005 Be respectful towards your vehicle and treat it as an instrument given to you by God for your convenience. So treat your vehicle with respect. The builder's vehicle at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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