39th year - N° 307 Saturday, 2 November 2024

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39th year - N° 307 Saturday, 2 November 2024

2 November / Today's 32 Events:

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(+) 269 years ago Sunday 2nd of November 1755 Excessive Queen consort of France and Navarre Marie Antoinette, originally Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna is born in Hofburg, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 229 years ago Monday 2nd of November 1795 11th President of the United States James Knox Polk is born in Pineville, North Carolina, United States.

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(+) 209 years ago Thursday 2nd of November 1815 Mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole is born in 3 Pottergate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 159 years ago Thursday 2nd of November 1865 29th President of the United States Warren Gamaliel Harding is born in Ohio Route 97, Blooming Grove, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 121 years ago Monday 2nd of November 1903 Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 118 years ago Friday 2nd of November 1906 Count of Lonate Pozzolo and film director Luchino Visconti, originally Luchino Visconti di Modrone is born in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 111 years ago Sunday 2nd of November 1913 Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster is born in 209 East 106th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 107 years ago The Man Went Outside Friday 2nd of November 1917 Chemist, murderer and playwright Roland Burnham Molineux dies of syphilitic infection at the age of 51 in Kings Park, New York, United States.

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(x) 101 years ago Friday 2nd of November 1923 26-year-old Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer leaves the State Hospital to start a killing spree in State Hospital for Mental Defectives, Napa, California, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago Wednesday 2nd of November 1938 Sculptor Richard Serra is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Monday 2nd of November 1942 Sex researcher Shere Hite, originally Shirley Diana Gregory is born in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States. Shere later took the surname of her stepfather Raymond Hite.

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(x) 80 years ago Thursday 2nd of November 1944 47-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is arrested, posing as Captain Henri Valéry, a hero for the resistance in St.-Mandé-Tourelle Metro Station, XIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 80 years ago Thursday 2nd of November 1944 Musician Keith Noel Emerson known from Emerson, Lake and Palmer is born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 80 years ago Thursday 2nd of November 1944 Engineer and chemist Thomas Midgley aka the One-Man Environmental Disaster dies of strangulation at the age of 55 in Worthington, Ohio, United States. Midgley accidently strangled himself with an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys he designed himself to lift him from his bed since he was struck by poliomyelitis in 1940.

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(x) 77 years ago Sunday 2nd of November 1947 42-year-old Business magnate, aviator, aerospace engineer, film director and eccentric Howard Robard Hughes makes the first and only flight of his own designed H-4 Hercules 'Spruce Goose' largest ever flying boat in Cabrillo Beach, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 77 years ago Sunday 2nd of November 1947 Irish Republican Army volunteer Joe McCann is born in Lower Falls, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 74 years ago He Pruned His Last Tree Thursday 2nd of November 1950 Playwright George Bernard Shaw dies of renal failure at the age of 94 in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Shaw's renal failure was precipitated by injuries incurred from falling while pruning a tree.

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(+) 72 years ago Sunday 2nd of November 1952 Gangster and gang leader Patrick Haemers aka Le Grand Blond is born in Schaerbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(x) 68 years ago Friday 2nd of November 1956 143 die in express train plunge into a river in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, India. A bomb exploded on a bridge across the Marudaiyar river.

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(-) 59 years ago Tuesday 2nd of November 1965 Quaker and anti-war protester Norman Morrison commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 32 in The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, United States. Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's office. In the Vietnamese city of Đà Nẵng a road is named after Morrison in memory of his act against the Vietnam-U.S conflict.

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(+) 57 years ago Thursday 2nd of November 1967 Murderer Garry Dean Miller is born in Scurry County, Texas, United States.

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(-) 52 years ago Thursday 2nd of November 1972 Henri Tomei is stabbed to death by serial killer Herbert Mullin aka The Hippie Killer in St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, 219 Bean Avenue, Los Gatos, California, United States. Mullin thought the church was empty but when he heard Father Henri Tomei in one of the booths he decided "Well, if you (the priest) are in here, I guess I should kill you."

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(-) 50 years ago Saturday 2nd of November 1974 Edward A. Hilliard is abducted and strangled by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. Hilliard's body was found in nearby woods but Griffin's remains were never discovered. Knowles was not proven to have murdered them but he was under strong suspicion.

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(-) 49 years ago Sunday 2nd of November 1975 Writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered by being run over several times with his own car at the age of 53 in Lido di Ostia, Via dell'Idroscalo, Ostia, Lazio, Italy. 17-year-old male prostitute Giuseppe Pelosi was arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini. On 7 May 2005 he retracted his confession which he said was made under the threat of violence to his family. He claimed that three people "with a southern accent" had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist".

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(-) 45 years ago Friday 2nd of November 1979 Gangster Jacques René Mesrine aka Public Enemy No. 1 is shot dead by the gendarmerie at the age of 43 in Porte de Clignancourt, XVIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Mesrine's golden BMW 520 was boxed in at the entrance to the intersection and police marksmen in the rear of a lorry immediately in front of their car threw open a tarpaulin. Twenty rounds were fired at point blank range. Mesrine was hit 15 times. A coup de grâce was then administered with a pistol. His mistress Sylvia Jeanjacquot lost one eye and suffered lasting damage to her arm. Her pet dog was killed.

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(-) 40 years ago She Died in a Diaper Friday 2nd of November 1984 Serial killer Velma Margie Barfield, originally Margie Velma Bullard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Barfield was the first woman to die by lethal injection in North Carolina. Barfield chose as her last meal a bag of Cheez Doodles and a 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola, and wore pink pajamas and an adult diaper as she was put to death.

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(-) 40 years ago Friday 2nd of November 1984 Iona Seicaresco is brutally beaten and strangled to death with an electric cord by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 60 Boulevard de Clichy, XVIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 38 years ago Sunday 2nd of November 1986 103 die in Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash in Zahedan Airport, Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. The plane was transporting soldiers of the 88th Armored Division from the western Bakhtaran war front to Zahedan.

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(-) 20 years ago Somebody Killed the Village Idiot Tuesday 2nd of November 2004 Film director Theo Theodoor van Gogh is assassinated by Dutch-Moroccan Muslim Mohammed Bouyeri at the age of 47 in . Bouyeri objected to the controversial film Submission van Gogh made from a script written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that deals with violence against women in some Islamic societies; it tells the stories of four abused Muslim women using visual shock tactics. Following the broadcast of the film both van Gogh and Hirsi Ali received death threats. Van Gogh did not take the threats seriously and refused any protection. According to Hirsi Ali he said "Nobody kills the villag e idiot", a term he frequently used about himself.

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(-) 20 years ago Tuesday 2nd of November 2004 Murderer Lorenzo Morris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Morris' last meal request was for fried chicken and fried fish, French bread, hot peppers, apple pie, butter pecan ice cream and two soft drinks, either Sprites or Big Reds.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 2nd of November 2005 The amazing archive of China's Noise Guru n°1 Yan Jun in Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(x) 16 years ago Sunday 2nd of November 2008 Noise music band Club Moral play their 133rd concert in Wiels, Avenue Van Volxem 354, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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39th year - N° 306 Friday, 1 November 2024

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39th year - N° 306 Friday, 1 November 2024

1 November / Today's 28 Events:

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(x) 420 years ago Monday 1st of November 1604 'The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice' by 40-year-old Poet and playwright William Shakespeare is performed for the first time in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On "Hallamas Day, being the first of Nouembar ... the Kings Maiesties plaiers" performed "A Play in the Banketinghouse at Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis." The work is attributed to "Shaxberd."

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(x) 413 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1611 The romantic comedy 'The Tempest' by 47-year-old Poet and playwright William Shakespeare is performed for the first time by the King's Men before James I and the English royal court in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 145 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1879 Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary Pál Teleki, originally Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék is born in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

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(-) 117 years ago Friday 1st of November 1907 Symbolist writer Alfred Jarry aka The Father of Pataphysics dies of tuberculosis aggravated by drug and alcohol use at the age of 34 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Jarry's last request was for a toothpick.

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(x) 97 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1927 Start of the trial against 30-year-old Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Manitoba Law Courts Building, 391 Broadway Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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(x) 92 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1932 20-year-old Wife of Adolf Hitler for one day Eva Anna Paula Braun shoots herself in the neck in her parents' house in München, Bayern, Germany. Braun's wound was only superficial, and she recovered in a couple of days.

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(-) 86 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1938 Murderer George Brain is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Brain stabbed 30-year-old prostitute Rose Muriel Atkins aka Irish Rose to death on 14 July 1938.

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(-) 78 years ago Friday 1st of November 1946 Murderer Albert Robert Boyce is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 45 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Boyce shot dead his 41-year-old girlfriend Elizabeth McLindon at 45 Chester Square, Belgravia, London on 8 June 1946.

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(x) 72 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1952 42-year-old deer hunter Victor 'Bunk' Travis and his companion Ray Burgess are presumably shot dead by 46-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer in Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States. Travis and Burgess and their car were never to be seen again. A massive search was conducted but there was no trace of them. Travis' dead dog and pieces of clothing were eventually recovered but the hunters and their car had vanished from the area.

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(x) 69 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1955 23-year-old Mass murderer Jack Gilbert Graham plants a dynamite bomb in his mother, Daisie King's suitcase that was subsequently loaded aboard United Airlines Flight 629 and exploding over tracts of farmland and sugar beet fields in Longmont, Colorado, United States. Graham had purchased $37,500 worth of life insurance money policies in the airport terminal just before the aircraft's departure at Stapleton Airfield in Denver, Colorado. 44 people were killed in the blast, there were no survivors.

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(+) 66 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1958 Murderer Roger Keith Coleman is born in Grundy, Virginia, United States.

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(-) 59 years ago Monday 1st of November 1965 Janina Popielska is stabbed to death, raped and mutilated by serial killer Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice in Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland. On 2 November the Poznan newspaper Courier Zachodni received a red-ink letter quoting Stefan Zeromsky's 1928 novel 'Popioli': "Only tears of sorrow can wash out the stain of shame, only pangs of suffering can blot out the fires of lust."

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(x) 54 years ago Sunday 1st of November 1970 146 die in nightclub fire in Club Cinq-Sept, Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(-) 52 years ago Wednesday 1st of November 1972 Modernist poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound dies of intestinal blockage at the age of 87 in Ospedale Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

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(-) 49 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1975 School shooter Anthony Barbaro known for the Olean High School shooting commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 17 in Cattaraugus County Jail, Little Valley, New York, United States.

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(-) 47 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1977 Lillie Pearl Darty is found shot in the head by serial killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death in Standpipe Road, Marshall, Texas, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Monday 1st of November 1982 Film director King Wallis Vidor dies of a heart ailment at the age of 88 in Paso Robles, California, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Thursday 1st of November 1984 Noise music band Club Moral play their 39th concert in De Warande, Warandestraat 42, Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 38 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1986 27-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'L'Age D'Or nr2' in an installation by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Stadsschouwburg, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands. In an AMVK-installation I was laying naked on a rotating platform, naked with my legs spread, my feet tied to a branch. By shuffling over the platform it looked as if I was moving forward, but yet remaining on the same spot. On the background a film of the same performance in a wood was projected.

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(x) 38 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1986 When their 61-year-old Cult leader of the Church of the Friends Kiyoharo Miyamoto dies of a  liver-disease his seven 'Brides of God' commit suicide by self-immolation on the beach in Wakayama, Honshu Island, Japan.

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(-) 33 years ago Friday 1st of November 1991 Mass murderer Gang Lu commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 28 in University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Lu killed 47-year-old professor Christoph K. Goertz, 44-year-old chairman Dwight R. Nicholson, assistant professor Robert Alan Smith, 27-year-old fellow graduate student Linhua Shan, 56-year-old assistant vice president for academic affairs T. Anne Cleary and seriously wounded 23-year-old student employee Miya Rodolfo-Sioson before committing suicide. Lu was infuriated because his dissertation 'Study of the "Critical Ionization Velocity" Effect by Particle-in-Cell Simulation' did not receive t he prestigious D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize. In the months prior to the shooting Lu wrote five letters explaining the reasons for his planned actions.

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(x) 30 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1994 69-year-old Suspected serial killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostro di Firenze is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Firenze, Toscana, Italy. Pacciani probably killed 16 people between 1968 and 1985.

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(-) 27 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1997 JoAnn C. Thomas is strangled by serial killer Alfred Gaynor aka The Springfield Strangler in 866 Worthington St., Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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25 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 1st of November 1999 A rather boring Franko B. performance in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 24 years ago Wednesday 1st of November 2000 Murderer Jeffrey Dillingham is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Dillingham's last meal request was for one cheeseburger with American, Cheddar and Mozzarella cheese, without mayonaise, mustard or onions; large French fries; bowl of macaroni and cheese; lasagna with two slices of garlic bread; 4 oz. of Nacho cheese; three large cinnamon rolls; five scrambled eggs and eight pints of chocolate milk.

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(x) 19 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 2005 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV plays 'I Love Rock'n'Roll' in 2 Kolegas Bar, 21 Liangmaqiao Lu, Chaoyang, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 1st of November 2005 Meeting up with a truckload of sheep in a traffic jam in Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(-) 18 years ago Wednesday 1st of November 2006 Murderer Donell O'Keith Jackson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Jackson's last meal request was for peach cobbler, barbecued ribs, french fries, onion rings, two double meat bacon burgers along with a root beer soda and a banana split ice cream.

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