36th year - N° 256 Monday, 13 September 2021

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36th year - N° 256 Monday, 13 September 2021

13 September / Today's 27 Events:

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(-) 700 years ago He Didn't Look Behind to Walk a Backward Path Saturday 13th of September 1321 Poet and writer Dante Alighieri, originally Durante degli Alighieri aka Il Sommo Poeta dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 546 years ago Monday 13th of September 1475 Duke of Valentinois Cesare Borgia is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy. According to some sources Borgia was born in April 1476. He was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja aka Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei.

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(+) 146 years ago War Ein Verklärte Tag Monday 13th of September 1875 Composer Arnold Schönberg is born in Obere Donaustraße 5, Leopoldstadt, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 117 years ago Tuesday 13th of September 1904 Mother of Martin Luther King Alberta Williams King is born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 105 years ago He Was not Unexpected Wednesday 13th of September 1916 Writer Roald Dahl known for his Tales of the Unexpected is born in Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(x) 90 years ago Sunday 13th of September 1931 24 people die and 120 others are injured in a bomb-attack and subsequent derailment of the Nachtschnellzuges Budapest–Wien by 39-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker in Biatorbágy, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

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(+) 77 years ago Wednesday 13th of September 1944 Actress Jacqueline Winifred Fraser Bisset is born in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 75 years ago Friday 13th of September 1946 Murderer Kenneth W. M. Bailey is executed by the gas chamber in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 65 years ago Thursday 13th of September 1956 Irish republican hunger striker Martin Edward Hurson, originally Mairtin O hUrsain is born in Cappagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 63 years ago Saturday 13th of September 1958 Serial killer Daniel Lee Corwin is born in Orange County, California, United States.

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(-) 55 years ago Tuesday 13th of September 1966 Ursula Rohling is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Försterbusch, Marl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 55 years ago Tuesday 13th of September 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Ten Rounds for Cassius Clay' with Günter Brus and Susan Khan at the 'Destruction In Art Symposium' in St Bride Institute, Bride Lane, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 54 years ago Wednesday 13th of September 1967 Dora 'Betje' Woortmeijer is robbed and beaten by serial killer Hans van Zon in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. Woortmeijer survived and led to van Zon's arrest on 13 December 1967.

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(-) 54 years ago He Chose an Honourable Death Wednesday 13th of September 1967 War leader Abdel Hakim Mohamed Amer commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 48 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt. Amer was approached by high-ranking Egyptian officers and was given a choice to stand trial for treason, which would inevitably have ended with his conviction and execution, or die an honourable death by taking poison. Amer chose the latter option and received a full military burial.

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(x) 50 years ago Monday 13th of September 1971 After 4 days of riots 63-year-old Businessman, philanthropist, public servant and politician Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller orders New York State Police troopers and former prison officers to drop tear gas and retake the prison in Attica Prison, Attica, New York, United States. The troopers opened fire non-stop for two minutes into the smoke. By the time the facility was retaken, nine hostages and 29 inmates had been killed.

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(x) 47 years ago Friday 13th of September 1974 The imprisoned members of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe start their third hungerstrike in several prisons, announced by Ulrike Meinhof while she stood trial for the freeing of Andreas Baader in Königliche Untersuchungsgefängnis, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 46 years ago Saturday 13th of September 1975 Liane Woessner is beaten to death with a hammer by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka Der Hammermörder in Bruchsal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 41 years ago Saturday 13th of September 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Simpletones in de Bajes' with The Simpletones in an old prison in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. The performance happened in a cell of an old prison and the audience had to look through the spy-hole to see anything. While the Simpletones played their music I tried to pull myself upside down all the time by use of a pulley. After about one and a half hour the door of the cell opened and I threw up in the hallway.

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(x) 37 years ago Thursday 13th of September 1984 48-year-old Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is arrested and charged with theft in Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia. At the trial three weeks later Chikatilo was released due to lack of evidence.

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(x) 37 years ago Thursday 13th of September 1984 Start of the trial against 32-year-old Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago He Gave Them the Finger Wednesday 13th of September 1995 Murderer Jimmie Wayne Jeffers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Jeffers had a last meal request for 3 pounds of prime rib, cooked medium rare; a pound of king crab legs; and three lobster tails complete with drawn butter, but prison officials called the request unreasonable due to issues of quantity and availability. Instead he got a 10 ounce steak, peas, rolls with butter, one baked potato with shredded Cheddar cheese, strawberry pie with whipped cream and a large chocolate malt. Before his execution Jeffers let loose a string of obscenities and gave his executioners the finger.

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(-) 25 years ago Friday 13th of September 1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac dies of internal bleeding at the age of 25 in University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Shakur had been shot several times in the chest, pelvis, and his right hand and thigh in a drive-by shooting on 7 September.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 13th of September 2001 A warning sign in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 14 years ago Thursday 13th of September 2007 Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial killer Alexander Yuryevich 'Sasha' Pichushkin aka The Chessboard Killer aka The Bitsa Park Maniac in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. Pichushkin asked a Russian court to add an additional 11 victims to his body count, bringing his claimed death toll to 60, and 3 surviving victims.

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(-) 10 years ago Tuesday 13th of September 2011 Pop artist Richard William Hamilton dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 89 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 13th of September 2014 AMVK in front of a painting by Richard Serra in Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 6 years ago Sunday 13th of September 2015 Noise music band Club Moral play their 145th concert on the occasion of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK's exhibition 'Love Shack' in Le Parvis de Bagnolet, 27 Rue Adélaïde Lahaye, Bagnolet, Île-de-France, France.

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