32nd year - N° 304 Tuesday, 31 October 2017

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32nd year - N° 304 Tuesday, 31 October 2017

31 October / Today's 14 Events:

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(+) 312 years ago Saturday 31st of October 1705 249th Pope Clemens XIV, originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli is born in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 154 years ago Saturday 31st of October 1863 Outlaw and murderer Tom Thomas E. Ketchum is born in San Saba County, Texas, United States.

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(+) 131 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1886 Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek is born in Miaogaotai, Xikou, Zhejiang, China.

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(+) 111 years ago Wednesday 31st of October 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Fritz Franke is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 99 years ago Thursday 31st of October 1918 Artist Egon Schiele dies of Spanish flu at the age of 28 in Hietzinger Hauptstraße 114, Wien, Wien, Austria. Schiele's wife Edith died three days earlier in their house in Wattmanngasse 6.

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(+) 97 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1920 Photographer Helmut Newton, originally Helmut Neustädter is born in Innsbrucker Straße 24, Schöneberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 91 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1926 Propaganda of the Deed anarchist Anteo Zamboni is lynched by nearby Fascist squadristi after attempting to assassinate Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce at the age of 15 in Via dell'Indipendenza, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The man who first detained Zamboni and identified him as the would-be assassin was cavalry officer Carlo Alberto Pasolini, father of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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(-) 91 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1926 Illusionist, magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, originally Erik Weisz aka The Handcuff King dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 52 in Grace Hospital Room #401, Detroit, Michigan, United States. Eyewitnesses to an incident at Houdini's dressing room in the Princess Theatre in Montreal gave rise to speculation that Houdini's death was caused by McGill University student Joselyn Gordon Whitehead who delivered a surprise attack of multiple blows to Houdini's abdomen.

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(+) 88 years ago Thursday 31st of October 1929 Actor Bud Spencer, originally Carlo Pedersoli is born in Borgo Santa Lucia, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(+) 81 years ago Saturday 31st of October 1936 Actor Michael Landon, originally Eugene Maurice Orowitz is born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 77 years ago Thursday 31st of October 1940 Guitarist Eric Ronald Griffiths known from The Quarrymen is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(+) 63 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1954 Victim of Dennis Nilsen aka Killing for Company Graham Archibald Allen aka Puggy is born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 24 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1993 Film director Federico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in . Fellini had suffered a second stroke and fell into an irreversible coma a couple of months earlier.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 31st of October 2005 An uneventful pig tattoo session at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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32nd year - N° 303 Monday, 30 October 2017

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32nd year - N° 303 Monday, 30 October 2017

30 October / Today's 27 Events:

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(+) 282 years ago Sunday 30th of October 1735 2nd President of the United States John Adams is born in 133 Franklin Street, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 160 years ago Friday 30th of October 1857 Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Édouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, Poitou-Charentes, France.

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(-) 154 years ago Friday 30th of October 1863 Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 146 years ago Monday 30th of October 1871 Poet and philosopher Paul Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry is born in Sète, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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(+) 132 years ago Friday 30th of October 1885 Modernist poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, United States.

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(-) 107 years ago He Disappeared with Humanity Sunday 30th of October 1910 Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant dies of unknown causes at the age of 18 in Heiden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland. Dunant's final words were "Where has humanity gone?"

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(-) 86 years ago Friday 30th of October 1931 Cop killer James E. Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Sunday 30th of October 1932 Film director Louis Marie Malle is born in Thumeries, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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(+) 80 years ago Saturday 30th of October 1937 Film director Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouche is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 79 years ago He Created Panic Sunday 30th of October 1938 23-year-old Actor and film director Orson George Welles broadcasts his radio play "War of the Worlds" in CBS studio, 485 Madison Avenue, 20th floor, New York City, New York, United States. Welles' broadcast was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel 'The War of the Worlds' (1898).

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(-) 76 years ago Thursday 30th of October 1941 Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 51 years ago Sunday 30th of October 1966 Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh is born in Az-Zarqā, Muħāfazat az-Zarqā, Jordan.

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(-) 51 years ago Sunday 30th of October 1966 Cheri Jo Josephine Bates is stabbed to death by unidentified serial killer Zodiac in Riverside City College, Riverside, California, United States. There were similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates's death but no real proof she was killed by Zodiac.

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(-) 49 years ago He Choked on Something Wednesday 30th of October 1968 Actor Ramon Novarro, originally José Ramón Gil Samaniego aka Latin Lover is murdered by 22-year-old Paul and 17-year-old Tom Ferguson at the age of 69 in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, California, United States. Novarro had hired the Ferguson brothers from an agency to come to his home for sex but the two young men believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarro's house. Novarro died as a result of asphyxiation - having choked to death on his own blood after being beaten. Some say Novarro had in fact been suffocated with a lead dildo given to him 45 years earlier by Rudolph Valentino.

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(x) 47 years ago Friday 30th of October 1970 27-year-old Singer-songwriter and poet Jim James Douglas Morrison aka The Lizard King aka Mr. Mojo Risin' known from The Doors is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and fined $500 for indecent exposure during a concert in Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Thursday 30th of October 1975 Wilma McCann is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Prince Philip Playing Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. McCann was Sutcliffe's first deadly victim.

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(-) 40 years ago Sunday 30th of October 1977 Judy Judith Ann Miller is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in Railway Diner, 8300 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, California, United States. Miller's body was found naked, face up on a parkway in a residential area in the La Crescenta neighborhood northeast of downtown Los Angeles on 1 November 1977.

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(-) 38 years ago Tuesday 30th of October 1979 Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Étang Rompu, Yvelines, Rambouillet, Île-de-France, France. Boulin's final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback."

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(-) 36 years ago Friday 30th of October 1981 Britta Schilling is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Teufelsmoor, Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, . Schilling was found naked and her clothes scattered on 6 November 1981.

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(-) 35 years ago Saturday 30th of October 1982 Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Joliet, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Tuesday 30th of October 1984 Cop killer Thomas Andy Barefoot is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Barefoot shot 31-year-old police officer Carl LeVin in the head in an attempt to avoid arrest after he raped a 3-year-old girl.

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(x) 32 years ago Wednesday 30th of October 1985 25-year-old Mass murderess Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist shoots 2-year-old Recife Cosmen, Earl Trout and Augustus Ferrara in a shooting spree because "My family makes me nervous" in Springfield Mall, 1250 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, Pennsylvania, United States. Seegrist also wounded seven people.

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(-) 27 years ago Tuesday 30th of October 1990 Viktor Wadim Tishchenko is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Tishchenko fought hard for his life, biting and breaking Chikatilo's finger.

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(-) 27 years ago Tuesday 30th of October 1990 Escape artist Joseph Burrus aka Amazing Joe is crushed by a load of concrete in a 'buried alive' magician's trick at the age of 32 in Blackbeard's Family Fun Center, 4055 N Chestnut Diagonal, Fresno, California, United States. As trick-and-treaters watched in shock rescuers frantically dug Burrus out but were unable to reach him in time.

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(-) 20 years ago Thursday 30th of October 1997 Film director Samuel Michael Fuller dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Hollywood, California, United States.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 30th of October 2005 Enjoying a tasty meal at the 'Happy Forest' village restaurant with Belgian cyclists Bavo and Sofie in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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(-) 8 years ago Friday 30th of October 2009 Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies of a heart attack at the age of 101 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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32nd year - N° 302 Sunday, 29 October 2017

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32nd year - N° 302 Sunday, 29 October 2017

29 October / Today's 15 Events:

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(x) 230 years ago Monday 29th of October 1787 The opera 'Don Giovanni' by 31-year-old Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, originally Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart premieres in Teatro di Praga, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 120 years ago Friday 29th of October 1897 Nazi leader and Reichspropagandaleiter Joseph Paul Goebbels is born in Rheydt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 106 years ago Starb Er Ganz Leise Sunday 29th of October 1911 Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, originally József Pulitzer known for the Pulitzer Prizes dies of unknown causes at the age of 64 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Pulitzer listened to his German secretary read aloud about King Louis XI of France. As the secretary neared the end Pulitzer said: "Leise, ganz leise" and died.

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(+) 87 years ago Wednesday 29th of October 1930 Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 85 years ago Saturday 29th of October 1932 Artist R. B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj is born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Saturday 29th of October 1932 Serial killer Velma Margie Barfield, originally Margie Velma Bullard is born in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 68 years ago Saturday 29th of October 1949 Occult teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff dies due to injuries suffered in a car crash in 1948 at the age of 83 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 60 years ago Tuesday 29th of October 1957 Luxury call girl Rosemarie Rosalie Marie Auguste Nitribitt is strangled and beaten to death by persons unknown at the age of 24 in Stiftstraße 36, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. Several prominent citizens were exposed as Nitribitt's personal acquaintances. When it became clear that the police would not be able to find the murderer it was insinuated in the media that high-ranking personalities were trying to thwart any attempts at solving the crime.

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(x) 54 years ago Tuesday 29th of October 1963 15-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer attempts to commit suicide by opening a vein with a pen in the City Jail in Santa Cruz, California, United States.

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(x) 51 years ago Saturday 29th of October 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 33 / Aktionskonzert für Al Hansen' in Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Grünangergasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 30 years ago Thursday 29th of October 1987 Geneviève M. is attacked by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in XIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 20 years ago Wednesday 29th of October 1997 Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey, originally Howard Stanton Levey dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 67 in St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States. LaVey was taken to St. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, because it was the closest available. For reasons open to speculation the time and date of his death was incorrectly (by two days) listed as the morning of Halloween on his death certificate.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 29th of October 2005 Gardenworks on Art Farm, since we had no heavy equipment on hand some back-to-basics techniques were necessary to move a couple of nasty boulders in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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(x) 11 years ago Sunday 29th of October 2006 97 die in Aviation Development Company Flight 53 Boeing 737-2B7 crash in Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. There were nine survivors.

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(x) 6 years ago Saturday 29th of October 2011 52-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Music for Excavations at 8213 West Summerdale Drive' in Cultuurcentrum, Minderbroedersgang 5, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium. A music performance with machines and voice.

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