32nd year - N° 274 Sunday, 1 October 2017

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32nd year - N° 274 Sunday, 1 October 2017

1 October / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 170 years ago Friday 1st of October 1847 Theosophist, writer and women's rights activist Annie Wood Besant is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 129 years ago Monday 1st of October 1888 Unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper sends a 'Saucy Jacky' postcard to the Central News Agency in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. I was not codding dear old Boss when I gave you the tip, you'll hear about Saucy Jacky's work tomorrow double event this time number one squealed a bit couldn't finish straight off. Had not got time to get ears off for police thanks for keeping last letter back till I got to work again. Jack the Ripper

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(+) 114 years ago Thursday 1st of October 1903 Composer Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz is born in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.

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(+) 107 years ago Saturday 1st of October 1910 Gangster Bonnie Elizabeth Parker is born in Rowena, Texas, United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Friday 1st of October 1920 Actor Walter Matthau, originally Walter John Matthow is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 93 years ago Wednesday 1st of October 1924 39th President of the United States Jimmy James Earl Carter is born in Wise Sanatorium, Hospital Street, Plains, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 89 years ago Monday 1st of October 1928 Actor George Peppard known for his role as Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith in ‘The A-Team’ is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Tuesday 1st of October 1935 Actress and singer Julie Elizabeth Andrews is born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 72 years ago He Was a Premature Spider Monday 1st of October 1945 Alpine ski racer Vladimir Peter Sabich aka Spider is born in Sacramento, California, United States. Sabich's lifelong nickname 'Spider' was given by his father as a result of thin arms and legs at a premature birth.

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(-) 66 years ago Monday 1st of October 1951 Chief executioner Jules-Henri Desfourneaux aka Monsieur de Paris dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 55 years ago Monday 1st of October 1962 29-year-old American Civil Rights Movement figure James Howard Meredith known for becaming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi becomes the first African-American student to enroll in University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 17 years ago Sunday 1st of October 2000 Gangster Reginald Kray aka Reggie Kray dies of cancer at the age of 67 in Townhouse Hotel Room #4, 18-22 Yarmouth Road, Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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(-) 13 years ago Friday 1st of October 2004 Photographer Richard Avedon dies of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 81 in Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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