Thursday, October 5, 2023

38th year - N° 278 Thursday, 5 October 2023

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38th year - N° 278 Thursday, 5 October 2023

5 October / Today's 24 Events:
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310 years ago

Thursday 5th of October 1713

Writer and philosopher Denis Diderot is born in Langres, Champagne-Ardenne, France.


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194 years ago

Monday 5th of October 1829

21st President of the United States Chester Alan Arthur is born in Fairfield, Vermont, United States.


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174 years ago

Friday 5th of October 1849

Mass murderer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin is born in Brunstatt, Alsace, France.


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159 years ago

Wednesday 5th of October 1864

Film pioneer Louis Jean Lumière is born in Besançon, Franche-Comté, France.


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143 years ago

Tuesday 5th of October 1880

Composer Jacques Offenbach dies of gout at the age of 61 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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104 years ago

Sunday 5th of October 1919

Actor Donald Henry Pleasence is born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.


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93 years ago

Sunday 5th of October 1930

48 die in R101 Experimental airship crash and fire in Le Clos Marotte, Allonne, Oise, France.

It was Britain's largest aircraft ever and this was it's maiden flight from Cardington to Karachi, India.


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89 years ago

Friday 5th of October 1934

Serial killer Angelo Anthony Buono aka The Hillside Strangler is born in Rochester, New York, United States.


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89 years ago Il Avait Zéro de Conduite

Friday 5th of October 1934

Film director Jean Vigo dies of sepsis due to tuberculosis at the age of 29 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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87 years ago

Monday 5th of October 1936

1st President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel is born in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.


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78 years ago He Entered the Apartment Once Again

Friday 5th of October 1945

Evelyn Peterson is hit on the head with a metal bar by serial killer William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More in Midway Drexel Apartments, 6020 Drexel Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Peterson blacked out from the fierce blow to her head and fell to the ground. Heirens tied her up, quickly left the penthouse and shut the door. Peterson awoke in her apartment to the sounds of Heirens banging on her door. She got up off the floor with her hands still bound and walked to the apartment door and opened it, letting Heirens in. Heirens once again entered the apartment, helping put a blanket around Peterson but not untying her, simply telling her to stay quiet. Heirens then left Peterson and told her he was going to get her some help.


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74 years ago

Wednesday 5th of October 1949

Irish republican hunger striker Michael Gaughan, originally Micheal O Gaibhtheachain is born in Ballina, Connacht, Ireland.


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61 years ago

Friday 5th of October 1962

Murder suspect Walter Quicker commits suicide by hanging at the age of 34 in Walsum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Quicker was thought to be the murderer of Monika Tafel on 4 June. 15 years later Joachim Kroll was to be found the real killer roaming around in Walsum and the Ruhr area.


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47 years ago

Tuesday 5th of October 1976

Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov is born in Tsentaroy, Chechen Republic, Russia.


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42 years ago

Monday 5th of October 1981

36-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company moves into his new apartment in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

In the next 16 months Nilsen would kill three young men and attempt to kill at least five others.


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40 years ago

Wednesday 5th of October 1983

Inventor Earl Silas Tupper known for the Tupperware plastic food container dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in San Jose, Costa Rica.


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39 years ago

Friday 5th of October 1984

Anna Barbier-Ponthus is tortured and strangled by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 10 Rue Saulnier, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Barbier-Ponthus was Paulin's first deadly victim. Earlier that day 91-year-old Germaine Petiot was beaten up in her apartment in Rue Lepic but survived.


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38 years ago

Saturday 5th of October 1985

16-year-old Miss Hungary 1985 Csilla Andrea Molnár is crowned Miss Hungary in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

Molnár was the first Hungarian beauty queen after a 50-year interval. Less than a year later Molnár committed suicide.


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29 years ago They Were Dressed in a White, Black or Golden Cape

Wednesday 5th of October 1994

Leader of the l'Ordre International Chevaleresque de Tradition Solaire cult Luc Jouret commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 47 in Les Roches de Cristal, Salvan, Valais, Switzerland.

With Jouret 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple commited suicide or were shot dead. 25 people were found in Les Roches de Cristal in Salvan and 23 at La Rochette in Cheiry, Fribourg. The victims were in most cases dressed in a white, black or golden ritual cape, depending on the degree of initiation. In Salvan the victims were injected or injected themselves with a poison based on curare, opioid and benzodiazepine. In Cheiry 20 victims died of one or more bu llets to the head, two suffocated by a plastic bag around their head and another probably in the same way.


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29 years ago

Wednesday 5th of October 1994

Double murderer Walter Key Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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25 years ago

Monday 5th of October 1998

Murderer Roderick Abeyta is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Nevada State Prison, 3301 E. 5th Street, Carson City, Nevada, United States.


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19 years ago She Refused to Explain How They Had Sexual Relations

Tuesday 5th of October 2004

Double murderer Edward Green aka Peanut is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.



19 years ago The Eyes had it

Tuesday 5th of October 2004

A house for sale in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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2 years ago

Tuesday 5th of October 2021

Triple murderer Ernest Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 61 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States.


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