Friday, October 20, 2023

38th year - N° 293 Friday, 20 October 2023

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38th year - N° 293 Friday, 20 October 2023

20 October / Today's 22 Events:
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836 years ago

Tuesday 20th of October 1187

172nd Pope Urbanus III, originally Uberto Crivelli dies of grief at the age of 67 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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169 years ago

Friday 20th of October 1854

Poet Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud is born in 12 rue Napoléon, Charleville, Champagne-Ardenne, France.


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149 years ago

Tuesday 20th of October 1874

Modernist composer Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, United States.


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141 years ago

Friday 20th of October 1882

Actor Bela Lugosi, originally Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó known for portraying Count Dracula is born in Lugoj, Timiș, Romania.

Lugosi later based his last name on his hometown.


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132 years ago

Tuesday 20th of October 1891

Matilda Clover is poisoned by serial killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist in Lambeth Road 27, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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129 years ago

Saturday 20th of October 1894

Actress and model Olive Thomas, originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy is born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States.


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121 years ago

Monday 20th of October 1902

Maud Marsh is poisoned with tartar-emetic by serial poisoner George Chapman aka The Borough Poisoner in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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119 years ago

Thursday 20th of October 1904

49-year-old Bigamist and multiple murderer Johann Otto Hoch, originally John Schmidt aka The Bluebeard Murderer marries Caroline Streicher as John Schmidt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.


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113 years ago

Thursday 20th of October 1910

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinz Brinkmann is born in Clausthal, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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97 years ago

Wednesday 20th of October 1926

Virginia A. Grant is strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Portland, Oregon, United States.


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79 years ago

Friday 20th of October 1944

130 die in East Ohio Gas Company explosion in East 61st Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.


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77 years ago

Sunday 20th of October 1946

Writer Elfriede Jelinek is born in Mürzzuschlag, Steiermark, Austria.


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59 years ago

Tuesday 20th of October 1964

31st President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover dies of massive internal bleeding at the age of 90 in New York City, New York, United States.


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55 years ago

Sunday 20th of October 1968

First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy dies of massive internal bleeding in Skorpios, Ionian Islands, Greece.


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50 years ago

Saturday 20th of October 1973

Quita Pirelli-Minetti Hague is decapitated by murder gang The Black Zebra Killers aka The Death Angels in Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, United States.

Hague and her 30-year-old husband Richard were strolling near their home when they were kidnapped by a group of black men and forced into a van. Quita was fondled by two men and then nearly decapitated by a third man with a machete. One of the men who had fondled Quita then similarly hacked Richard and left him for dead, but he survived. Quita's assailant Larry Craig Green was convicted of her murder and sentenced to a California prison.


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42 years ago

Tuesday 20th of October 1981

Danny Davis is abducted, tortured and killed by child molester and serial killer Arthur Gary Bishop aka The Mormon Murderer in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.


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41 years ago

Wednesday 20th of October 1982

66 die in FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem soccer game stampede in Central Lenin Stadium, Khamovniki, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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38 years ago

Sunday 20th of October 1985

Twentieth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC on the car of Mr. Galand, chairman of the CNAPD in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

It was the second action in their Campagne Pierre Akkerman.


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29 years ago

Thursday 20th of October 1994

Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster dies of a third heart attack at the age of 81 in The Century Towers, Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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19 years ago

Wednesday 20th of October 2004

Murderer Ricky Eugene Morrow is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Morrow's last meal request was for a cheeseburger, French fries, onion rings and iced tea. 


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18 years ago

Thursday 20th of October 2005

Murder plotter Luis L. Ramirez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Ramirez hired Edward Bell to kill the boyfriend of his ex-wife Dawn.


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7 years ago

Thursday 20th of October 2016

Mountaineer Junko Tabei known for becoming the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.


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