32nd year - N° 284 Wednesday, 11 October 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 284 Wednesday, 11 October 2017

11 October / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 278 years ago Sunday 11th of October 1739 Russian military leader and statesman Grigory Potemkin, originally Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski is born in Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 145 years ago Friday 11th of October 1872 Heroine of the women's suffrage movement Emily Wilding Davison is born in Blackheath, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 121 years ago Sunday 11th of October 1896 Composer Anton Bruckner dies of unknown causes at the age of 72 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 77 years ago Friday 11th of October 1940 Ingeborg Goetz is attacked by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Goetz was hit on the head with a club, slashed in the stomach and thrown out of a train. She recoverd in hospital but remembered nothing about her attacker.

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(+) 75 years ago Sunday 11th of October 1942 Mass murderer James Oliver Huberty aka Hunting Humans is born in Canton, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 63 years ago Monday 11th of October 1954 Victim of the Black Zebra Killers Thomas Rainwater is born in Monrovia, California, United States.

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(-) 54 years ago Il Restait avec Nous Friday 11th of October 1963 Poet, writer, artist and filmmaker Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Milly-la-Forêt, Île-de-France, France. It has been said that Cocteau's heart failed upon hearing of his friend Edith Piaf's death that was announced on the radio in the morning.

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(x) 38 years ago Thursday 11th of October 1979 34-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company attempts to murder Andrew Ho, a student from Hong Kong in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 37 years ago Saturday 11th of October 1980 9/11 terrorist Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi is born in Hazna, al Bahah Province, Saudi Arabia. al-Haznawi was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.

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(x) 32 years ago Friday 11th of October 1985 26-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK at the Animal-Végétal exhibition in Drève de Rivieren 340, Jette, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. I repeated the text "The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu" with my head immersed in water. The sound was amplified by a hydrophone. AMVK read passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The sound was amplified by a microphone. Behind us a film was projected with images of mouths of humans and beaks of animals.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 11th of October 2005 A mummified body in Natural History Museum, Shanghai, China.

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(-) 4 years ago His Funeral Caused a Riot Friday 11th of October 2013 SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Violent clashes broke out between fascist sympathizers and anti-fascist protesters during Priebke's funeral service by Don Florian Abrahamowicz, an ex-SSPX priest and of Jewish origin.

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(-) 2 years ago He Skipped a Beat Sunday 11th of October 2015 Drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumental musician John Russell Murphy aka Krank dies of hepatitis C at the age of 56 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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