41st year - Nr 273 Wednesday, 30 September 2026

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41st year - Nr 273 Wednesday, 30 September 2026

30 September / Today's 25 Events:

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(+) 165 years ago Monday 30th of September 1861 Chewing gum industrialist William Wrigley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 144 years ago Saturday 30th of September 1882 Physicist Hans Johannes Wilhelm 'Gengar' Geiger known for inventing the Geiger counter is born in Neustadt an der Haardt, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(-) 138 years ago Sunday 30th of September 1888 Catherine Kate Eddowes is stabbed to death, her throat cut, her body ripped open and her uterus removed from the abdomen by unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper in Mitre Square, Whitechapel, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 138 years ago Sunday 30th of September 1888 Elizabeth Stride, originally Elizabeth Gustafsdotter aka Long Liz is throatcut by unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper in Dutfield's Yard, Berner Street, Whitechapel, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 124 years ago He Was the First to Hang Tuesday 30th of September 1902 Murderer John McDonald is executed by hanging by William Billington at the age of 23 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. McDonald was the first man to hang at Pentonville Prison. Chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint would later find it "the finest scaffold in the world".

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(+) 117 years ago Thursday 30th of September 1909 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Ernst Ehrenberg is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 105 years ago He Was a Dear Old Pal Friday 30th of September 1921 Double murderer Carl Otto Wanderer known for The Case of the Ragged Stranger is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Wanderer sang 'Dear Old Pal O' Mine' before being hanged, causing the hangman to remark, "That son-of-a-bitch should have been a song plugger."

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(-) 103 years ago Sunday 30th of September 1923 Richard Gräf is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 102 years ago He Was Warm Blooded Tuesday 30th of September 1924 Writer and playwright Truman Capote, originally Truman Streckfus Persons known for inventing the ‘nonfiction novel’ is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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(+) 95 years ago Wednesday 30th of September 1931 Actress Angie Dickinson, originally Angeline Brown is born in Kulm, North Dakota, United States.

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(-) 94 years ago Friday 30th of September 1932 Murderer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster dies of unknown causes at the age of 73 in Bridgewater State Hospital, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Tuesday 30th of September 1947 Singer-songwriter and musician Marc Bolan, originally Mark Feld known from T. Rex is born in 25 Stoke Newington Common, Hackney, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 77 years ago Friday 30th of September 1949 Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Rosalind Heather Thorpe is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 71 years ago Friday 30th of September 1955 Actor James Byron Dean known from Rebel Without a Cause dies in a head-on car crash in his Porsche 550 Spyder at the age of 24 in Route 466/41 Junction, Paso Robles, California, United States. Dean crashed into 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed who made a left turn onto Route 41 in a 1950 Ford Tudor. Dean had been extricated from the Spyder's mangled cockpit, his left foot having been crushed between the clutch and brake pedal, leaving him severely injured from the crash with a broken neck and several internal and external injuries.

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(+) 66 years ago Friday 30th of September 1960 Serial killer Michael Lee Lockhart is born in Walbridge, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 64 years ago Sunday 30th of September 1962 Fashion model and beauty queen Hajna de Kaplany, originally Hajna Piller dies after 33 days of agony after her husband Geza soaked her with a mixture of hydrochloric, sulfuric and nitric acid at the age of 25 in Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, 900 Hyde St., San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 60 years ago He Was the Last Nazi Friday 30th of September 1966 Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach are released from prison whereby 72-year-old Nazi leader and Stellvertreter des Führers Rudolf Walter Richard Hess becomes the last imprisoned Nazi leader in Kriegsverbrechergefängnis, Spandau, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 48 years ago Saturday 30th of September 1978 Mary Bell Vincent is raped and mutilated by presumed multiple murderer Lawrence Singleton in Modesto, California, United States. Singleton raped Vincent and then severed both her forearms with a hatchet and threw her off a 30-foot cliff, leaving her naked and near death. She managed to pull herself back up the cliff and alert a passerby who took her to a hospital.

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(x) 43 years ago Friday 30th of September 1983 31-year-old Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer is arrested by Trooper Kenneth Buehrle in Interstate 65, Lowell, Indiana, United States. Earlier that night Eyler picked up Darl Hayward hitchhiking on the Ontario Street ramp to the Kennedy and Dan Ryan Expressways in Chicago with the intention to kill him.

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(-) 41 years ago Monday 30th of September 1985 Seismologist and physicist Charles Francis Richter known for creating the Richter magnitude scale dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 85 in Pasadena, California, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Monday 30th of September 1985 Actress Simone Signoret, originally Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Auteuil-Anthouillet, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(-) 29 years ago Tuesday 30th of September 1997 Murderer Johnny William Cockrum is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 30th of September 2006 Some exhibition opening in Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstraße 50-51, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 15 years ago Friday 30th of September 2011 Serial killer Clifford Robert Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Archambault Hospital Centre, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec, Canada.

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(-) 5 years ago Thursday 30th of September 2021 Artist Jacques Lizène aka L’Artiste de la Médiocrité dies of unknown causes at the age of 75 in Liège, Liège, Belgium.

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