39th year - N° 300 Saturday, 26 October 2024

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39th year - N° 300 Saturday, 26 October 2024

26 October / Today's 25 Events:

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(-) 584 years ago Monday 26th of October 1440 Baron, knight, companion-in-arms of Jeanne D'Arc and serial killer of children Gilles de Rais, originally Gilles de Montmorency-Laval aka Gilles de Retz is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Île de Biesse, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. de Rais' body and those of his accomplices Henriet and Poitou, also hanged, are thrown into the fire.

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(+) 339 years ago Friday 26th of October 1685 Baroque composer Domenico Giuseppe Scarlatti is born in Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(-) 165 years ago No Women of Children Were Saved Wednesday 26th of October 1859 459 die in Royal Charter steam clipper shipwreck in Porth Alerth, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. Passengers, including many gold miners were killed by being dashed against the rocks by the waves rather than drowned. Others drowned weighed down by the belts of gold they were wearing around their bodies. The survivors, 21 passengers and 18 crew members were all men, with no women or children saved.

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(x) 143 years ago Wednesday 26th of October 1881 A 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys takes place in O.K. Corral, Tombstone, Arizona, United States. Participants were 38-year-old Town Marshall Virgil, 30-year-old Special Policeman Morgan and 33-year-old Special Policeman Wyatt Earp and 30-year-old temporary policeman Doc Holliday vs. Cowboys 28-year-old Tom and 32-year-old Frank McLaury, 19-year-old Billy and 40-year-old Ike Clanton and 22-year-old Billy Claiborne. Virgil, Morgan and Holliday got wounded an d McLaury and Clanton were killed.

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(x) 126 years ago Il Avait une Balle Dans la Tête Wednesday 26th of October 1898 Start of the trial against 29-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France. Vacher entered the courtroom with "J'ai une balle dans la tête" written on a panel and shouting "Vive Jésus ! Vive Jeanne d'Arc".

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(+) 122 years ago Sunday 26th of October 1902 Phytotherapist and nutritionist Alfred Vogel is born in Aesch, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland.

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(+) 108 years ago Thursday 26th of October 1916 President of the French Republic François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterand is born in Jarnac, Charente, France.

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(+) 105 years ago Sunday 26th of October 1919 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is born in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

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(+) 99 years ago Monday 26th of October 1925 Writer and artist Jan Hendrik Wolkers is born in Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 89 years ago He Shattered Every Window in the Structure Saturday 26th of October 1935 21-year-old Serial bomber Hugh F. 'Idzy' Rutkowski aka The Mad Bomber of Milwaukee places a bomb under a 5-inch sewer in Shorewood City Hall, 3930 N. Murray Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Rutkowski's dynamite bomb tore a hole through the cellar, splintered one of the large columns supporting the roof and shattered every window in the structure.

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(+) 88 years ago Monday 26th of October 1936 Victim of Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Robert George 'Bobby' Calvert is born in Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Sunday 26th of October 1941 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Holger Klaus Meins is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(-) 60 years ago Monday 26th of October 1964 Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Fremantle Prison, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.

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(+) 60 years ago Monday 26th of October 1964 Mass murderer Marc Lépine, originally Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi aka The Women-Hating Rambo is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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(-) 59 years ago Tuesday 26th of October 1965 Victim of Gertrude Baniszewski Sylvia Marie Likens dies of a brain hemorrhage, shock and malnutrition after multiple beatings, burnings and scalding baths by Gertrud Baniszewski at the age of 16 in 3850 East New York Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Baniszewski encouraged neighborhood children to torment Likens, including extinguishing cigarettes on her skin and forcing her to remove her clothes and insert a glass Coca-Cola bottle into her vagina on at least two occasions. Shortly before Likens died Baniszewski began to carve the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it!" into Likens' stomach with a heated needle.

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(-) 52 years ago Thursday 26th of October 1972 Aviation pioneer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Easton, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 40 years ago He Chose a Suicide Solution Friday 26th of October 1984 Ozzy Osbourne fan John Daniel McCollum commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19 in Indio, California, United States. McCollum had been listening to Ozzy Osbourne singing 'Suicide Solution' all day long. In a lawsuit McCollum's parents claimed that there were hidden lyrics in the song that incited the teenager to kill himself. A California court dismissed the McCollums' lawsuit in 1988, ruling that John's suicide was not a foreseeable result of Osbourne's song.

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(x) 40 years ago Friday 26th of October 1984 0-year-old Baby Fae, originally Stephanie Fae Beauclair known for becoming the first infant receiving the heart of a baboon has a baboon heart transplanted in the first successful infant heart transplant by Dr. Leonard Lee Bailey in Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States. Baby Fae lived for 21 days with the baboon heart.

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(x) 39 years ago Saturday 26th of October 1985 Noise music band Club Moral play their 48th concert at the Bath festival in De Media, Molenstraat 31, Eeklo, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 39 years ago Saturday 26th of October 1985 Noise music band Club Moral perform their 47th concert at La Nuit Erotique in Vooruit, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 29 years ago Thursday 26th of October 1995 45-year-old Serial killer William Lester Suff, originally Bill Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer is condemned to death for 12 murders in Riverside, California, United States. Suff resides on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

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(x) 22 years ago Saturday 26th of October 2002 After three days of occupation by 40 Chechnen terrorists involving 850 hostages operators from Federal Security Service (FSB) aka Spetsnaz brigade storm the building in Dubrovka Theatre, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. All 40 of the terrorists were killed and up to 204 hostages died during the siege due to poisoning by gas pumped into the ventilation system during the rescue operation. The identity of the gas was never disclosed, although it is believed by some to have been a fentanyl derivative such as carfentanil.

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(-) 20 years ago Tuesday 26th of October 2004 Murderer Dominique Jerome Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 26th of October 2005 The Art Farm landlord posing proudly before its gate in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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(x) 17 years ago Friday 26th of October 2007 Noise music band Club Moral play their 129th concert in De Resoor, Sluisberg 9, Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium.

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