41st year - Nr 280 Wednesday, 7 October 2026

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41st year - Nr 280 Wednesday, 7 October 2026

7 October / Today's 29 Events:

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(-) 1690 years ago Wednesday 7th of October 0336 34th Pope Marcus dies of natural causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 179 years ago Thursday 7th of October 1847 23-year-old Serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners marries 20-year-old Annie Thornton Brookes in St Nicholas Church, Market Place, Abbots Bromley, Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 177 years ago There Were a Lot of Speculations Sunday 7th of October 1849 Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 40 in Washington Medical College, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Poe was found on East Lombard Street on 3 October 1849 in great distress. He was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition and why he was wearing clothes that were not his own. The actual cause of death remains a mystery. Speculation has included delirium tremens, heart disease, epilepsy, syphilis, meningeal inflammation, cholera and rabies.

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(+) 152 years ago Wednesday 7th of October 1874 Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or is born in Kérity, Bretagne, France.

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(+) 147 years ago Tuesday 7th of October 1879 Songwriter and labor activist Joe Hill, originally Joel Emmanuel Hägglund is born in Nedre Bergsgatan 28, Gälve, Gästrikland, Sweden.

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(+) 141 years ago Wednesday 7th of October 1885 Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr is born in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

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(x) 133 years ago Saturday 7th of October 1893 24-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais marries Marie-Catherine Rémy in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Landru and Rémy already had a daughter born on 4 June 1891.

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(+) 126 years ago Sunday 7th of October 1900 Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Luitpold Himmler is born in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 103 years ago War Sie Ein Deutscher Mädel Sunday 7th of October 1923 KZ-Aufseherin in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Irma Ida Ilse Grese aka Die Hyäne von Auschwitz is born in Wrechen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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(-) 102 years ago Tuesday 7th of October 1924 Murderer Frank Johnson aka Luther Derril is executed by Old Sparky in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States. Johnson was the first man to be executed in the electric chair in Florida.

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(+) 99 years ago Friday 7th of October 1927 US-Diplomat Leamon Ray Hunt is born in Township of Gibbs, Oklahoma, United States.

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(+) 99 years ago Friday 7th of October 1927 Psychiatrist Ronald David Laing, originally R. D. Laing is born in Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 92 years ago Hat der Kampf Angefangen Sunday 7th of October 1934 Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is born in Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 91 years ago Monday 7th of October 1935 Performance artist Michel Journiac is born in XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 88 years ago Friday 7th of October 1938 Bank robber Adam 'Eddie' Richetti is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 29 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. Richetti was the first man to be executed in the Missouri Gas Chamber.

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(-) 82 years ago Saturday 7th of October 1944 Muriel Amelia Eady is strangled by serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 72 years ago Thursday 7th of October 1954 Serial killer Gary Charles Evans is born in Troy, New York, United States.

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(x) 71 years ago He Changed His Fucking Mind Friday 7th of October 1955 29-year-old Beat poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg reads his controversial poem 'Howl' for the first time at a poetry reading in Six Gallery, 3119 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago He Died in the Twilight Zone Wednesday 7th of October 1959 Tenor and actor Mario Lanza, originally Alfred Arnold Cocozza dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 38 in Clinica Valle Giulia, Via Giuseppe de Notaris 2, Rome, Lazio, Italy. On 25 September 1959 Lanza entered the clinic for the purpose of losing weight for an upcoming film. While in the clinic he underwent a controversial weight loss program colloquially known as 'the twilight sleep treatment' which required its patients to be kept immobile and sedated for prolonged periods.

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(+) 58 years ago Monday 7th of October 1968 Zezo Ze-Ce Zadfrak Glutz is born to 20-year-old Member of the 'Manson Family' Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz in Spahn Ranch, 12000 Santa Susana Pass Road, Chatsworth, California, United States. Five days later Atkins and the other women on the ranch arranged for her to move with the baby to a nearby religious mission and retreat house called the Fountain, where some of the girls had stayed occasionally.

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(x) 57 years ago Tuesday 7th of October 1969 44-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Der Tod der Sharon Tate' in Galleria Milano, Via Manin 13, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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(x) 49 years ago Friday 7th of October 1977 Four paintings are attacked with acid by 40-year-old Serial art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann in Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, Hessen, Germany. The paintings were Rembrandt's 'Der Jakobssegen - Jakob segnet Ephraim und Manasse' and 'Selbstbildnis mit Barett und Goldener Kette', Nicolaus Maes’ 'Der Apostel Thomas' and Willem Drost's 'Noli Me Tangere (Christus erscheint Maria Magdalena als Gärtner)'.

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(-) 42 years ago Sunday 7th of October 1984 Kimberly Kyle Hoops aka Sugar is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Sunday 7th of October 1984 Chanel Devoun Williams is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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(-) 31 years ago Saturday 7th of October 1995 Spree killer Ernest Ernie Ingenito dies of heart failure at the age of 71 in Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Wednesday 7th of October 1998 Double murderer Jonathan Wayne Nobles is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 26 years ago Saturday 7th of October 2000 41-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV plays at the BXL 2000 festival in BXL 2000, 50 rue de l'Ecuyer, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 7th of October 2002 A roadside shrine for Jacqueline Leclercq, victim of the Trash Bag Killer in Rue Emile Vandervelde, Cuesmes, Hainaut, Belgium.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 7th of October 2005 A handsome leaping little friend in Natural History Museum, Shanghai, China.

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