When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?: October 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

31 October 1984 - Indira Pridar Shini Gandhy is Shot Dead

1705 (+) 249th Pope Clementius XIV originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, is born in Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna, Italy.

1765 (-) Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in London, United Kingdom.

1815 (-) Farmer, mechanic and composer Daniel Belknap dies at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.

1863 (+) Train robber Tom Thomas Edward Ketchum aka Black Jack Ketchum, is born in San Saba County, Texas, USA.

1886 (+) Statesman Chang Kai-Shek is born in Xikou, China.

1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Fritz Franke is born in Berlin, Germany.

1913 (-) Murderer Mike Spanos is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Oregon, USA.

1913 (-) Murderer Frank Seymour is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Oregon, USA.

1918 (-) Artist Egon Schiele dies of Spanish flu at the age of 28 in Vienna, Austria.

1920 (+) Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1926 (-) Magician Harry Houdini dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 52 in Detroit, Grace Hospital, Room 401, Michigan, USA.
He was punched in the stomach several times by Joselyn Gordon Whitehead at his own request on 22 october 1926 which caused his appendicitis.

1926 (x) An unidentified 15-year-old boy who tried to kill 43-year-old Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is lynched by a mad mob in Bologna, Italy.

1929 (+) Actor Bud Spencer originally Carlo Pedersoli, is born in Naples, Italy.

1936 (+) Actor Michael Landon originally Eugene Maurice Orowitz, is born in Forest Hills, New York, USA.

1938 (-) An unidentified woman dies as result of a cyclopropane explosion while undergoing breast surgery at the age of 44 in Lahey Clinic, Boston, Massachussets, USA.
The source of ignition was static electricity.

1940 (+) Musician and founder of The Beatles Eric Ronald Griffiths is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.

1950 (+) Actor John Franklin Candy is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1961 (-) Murderer Honor Robinson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1974 (-) Laura Aime is abducted and strangled by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

1981 (-) ‘Orange Socks’ is strangled by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, in Oklahoma, USA.
She was found along the Interstate 35 and remains unidentified.

1984 (-) President Indira Pridar Shini Gandhi is shot dead by her Sikh body-guards Beant Singh and Sawant Singh at the age of 66 in New Delhi, India.

1993 (-) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Rome, Italy.

1993 (-) Actor River Jude Phoenix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 23 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1996 (x) 99 Die in TAM Fokker crash in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

1999 (x) 217 Die in Egypt Air Flight 990 Boeing 767-366ER crash in Nantucket, the Atlantic Ocean.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

30 October 1990 - Joe Joseph W. Burrus Dies

1735 (+) 2nd president of the USA John Adams is born in Braintree, Quincy, Massachussets, USA.

1857 (+) Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Edouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Poitou, France.

1863 (-) Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, USA.

1871 (+) Poet Paul Ambroise Toussaint Jules Valéry is born in Sête, Hérault, France.

1885 (+) Writer Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, USA.

1910 (-) Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant dies due to depression and paranoia at the age of 85 in Heiden, Switzerland.

1931 (-) Cop Killer James E. Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

1932 (+) Filmmaker Louis Malle is born in Thumeries, France.

1937 (+) Filmmaker Claude Lelouche is born in France.

1938 (x) 23-year-old Actor and filmmaker George Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play "War of the Worlds" from the CBS studio in New York, 485 Madison Avenue, 20th floor, New York, USA.
It caused a nationwide panic.

1941 (-) Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon, USA.

1966 (-) Cheri Bates is stabbed to death as first victim by Zodiac at the age of 18 in Riverside, RCC Library, California, USA.

1966 (+) al-Qaeda Leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh aka the Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers, is born in Zarqa, Jordan.

1968 (-) Actor Ramon Novarro originally José Ramon Gil Samaniego aka The Sheik, has his skull crushed by Paul and Thomas Ferguson at the age of 69 in Laurel, California, USA.
He choked to death on his own blood.

1970 (x) 26-year-old Musician Jim James Douglas Morrison is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and fined $500 for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami, Florida, USA.

1975 (-) Wilma McCann is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 26 in Leeds, Prince Philip Playing Fields, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1977 (-) Tina Williams is raped and shot dead by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 17 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

1977 (-) Judy Miller is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 15 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.

1979 (-) Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Rambouillet, France.
His final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest, of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback."

1981 (-) Britta Schilling is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.

1982 (-) Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1984 (-) Murderer Thomas Barefoot is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1985 (x) Mass Murderess Sylvia Segress kills 8 people in a shooting rage in Springfield, Pennsylvania, USA.

1990 (-) Wadim Tistschenko is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Schachty, Km1128 on the Kirpitschnaja-Sady road, Russia.

1990 (-) Escape artist Amazing Joe Joseph W. Burrus is crushed by a load of concrete in a 'buried alive' magician's trick in San Francisco, California, USA.

1997 (-) Filmmaker Samuel Fuller dies at the age of 85 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2009 (-) Philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss dies of a heart attack at the age of 100 in Paris, France.

Monday, October 29, 2012

29 October 1997 - Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey Dies

1656 (+) Astrologist Edmund Halley is born in London, Hackney, United Kingdom.

1787 (x) The opera "Don Giovanni" by 31-year-old Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premieres in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

1897 (+) Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels is born in Rheydt, Prussia, Germany.

1901 (-) Assassin Leon Frank Czolgosz aka The Man who shot William McKinley, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Auburn Prison, New York, USA.

1911 (-) Publisher Joseph Pulitzer originally József Politzer, dies at the age of 64 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

1930 (+) Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1932 (+) Artist R.B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj is born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA.

1932 (+) Murderess Velma M. Barfield is born in North Carolina, USA.

1947 (+) Actor Richard Dreyfuss is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1949 (-) Occult Teacher George Ivanowitsch Gurdjieff dies at the age of 83 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, American Hospital, France.

1957 (-) Rosemarie Nitribitt is choked and her skull crushed by persons unknown at the age of 24 in Frankfurt, Germany.
A number of her clients commit suicide or flee the country in the ensued police-investigation.

1963 (x) 14-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, attempts to commit suicide by opening a vein with a pen in Santa Cruz, City Jail, California, USA.

1984 (x) 240 Die in USSR transport plane crash in Kaboul, Afghanistan.

1987 (-) Geneviève M. is attacked by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 85 in Paris 12th, France.

1997 (-) Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 67 in San Francisco, California, USA.

1997 (-) James Loper is shot dead by Louis Peoples at the age of 29 in Stockton, Eight Mile Road near Interstate 5, California, USA.

2002 (x) Over 60 Die in ITC shopping center fire in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Over 100 people remain missing.

2006 (x) 97 Die in Aviation Development Company Flight 53 Boeing 737-2B7 crash in Abuja, Nigeria.
7 people survived.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

28 October 1976 - Máire Drumm is Shot Dead

1895 (x) Start of the trial against 35-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Philadelphia, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Pennsylvania, USA.

1898 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is sentenced to death for twelve murders in Ain, France.

1901 (-) ‘Brother’ of Lou Salomé and rival of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Ree commits suicide by jumping off a rock at the age of 51 in Celerina, Switzerland.

1903 (+) Writer Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh is born in London, United Kingdom.

1909 (+) Artist Francis Bacon is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1955 (+) Software-tycoon Bill William Henry Gates is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1967 (+) Actress Julia Roberts is born in Smyrna, Georgia, USA.

1967 (-) Jack ‘The Hat’ McVitie is stabbed to death by Reggie Kray aka The Profession of Violence, at the age of 38 in London, Bethnal Green, United Kingdom.

1976 (-) IRA-Leader Máire Drumm is shot dead by persons unknown at the age of 56 in Belfast, Ireland.
She lay in a hospital, recovering from an eye-operation.

1987 (-) Surrealist writer André Aimé René Masson dies at the age of 91 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

1997 (-) Multiple Murderer Kenneth Ray Ransom is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1997 (x) Distraught over debts, a failed marriage, and her latest lover leaving her, 33-year-old Mass murderess Susan Eubanks kills her 6-year-old, 7-year-old and 14-year-old sons with a shot through the head and tries to commit suicide by a gunblast to the abdomen in San Diego, California, USA.
Another 4-year-old son died in the hospital.

1999 (-) Murderer Domingo Cantu is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (x) 133-year-old 100 Die in hostel fire in St. Johns, Newfoundland.

2008 (-) Murderer Michitoshi Kuma is executed by hanging at the age of 70 in Fukuoka, Japan.

2008 (-) Murderer Masahiro Takashio is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Sendai, Japan.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

27 October 1977 - Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are Buried

1466 (+) Humanist Desiderius Roterodamus Erasmus originally Gerrit Gerritszoon, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The exact year of birth is not known, it could also be 1469.

1728 (+) Explorer Captain James Cook is born in Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1782 (+) Composer Niccolo Paganini is born in Genova, Italy.

1858 (+) 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York, New York, USA.

1873 (+) Murderer Johan Alfred Andersson Ander is born in Ljustero, Sweden.

1896 (+) Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Eileen Haisman originally Brown, is born in Cape Colony, South Africa.

1914 (+) Poet Dylan Marlais Thomas is born in Swansea, United Kingdom.

1919 (-) Michele Pepitone is murdered as last known victim by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1923 (+) Artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1923 (-) Heinz Brinkmann is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 13 in Hannover, Germany.

1928 (+) Mass murderer Perry Eugene Smith aka In Cold Blood, is born in Huntington, Nevada, USA.

1932 (x) Murderer Robert Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor, attends a surgical emergency room, having tried to cut off his penis in New York, New York, USA.

1939 (+) Actor John Marwood Cleese is born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, United Kingdom.

1954 (+) Artist Michael Mike Kelley is born in Wayne, Michigan, USA.

1958 (-) Luis Garavito is abducted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 28 in Tustin, California, USA.
In an ensuing fight, they are spotted by a highway patrolman, and Glatman is arrested.

1964 (-) An unidentified girl is raped and abused by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1975 (-) Teenage Sex-Killer Robert Poulin commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 18 in Ottawa, St. Pius X High School, Ontario, Canada.
He was obsessed with sex and pornography, and had written about wanting to have sex before he died. He had been suicidal at least three years prior to his attack which killed one and injured five students.

1977 (-) Writer James Mallahan Cain dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 85 in Hyattsville, Maryland, USA.

1977 (x) The members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are buried in Stuttgart, Waldfriedhof Cemetary, Germany.

1982 (-) Olga Kuprina is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Kastachji Lagerja, Russia.

1983 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is arrested in his house in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

1989 (-) Patty Ives is strangled and her neck broken by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 25 in Genesee Gorge, New York, USA.

1996 (-) Victor Rossi is beaten to death as first victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 41 in Prairieville, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Triple murderer Alberto Ignacio Ortiz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 57 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

Friday, October 26, 2012

26 October 1965 - Sylvia Likens is Tortured to Death

1440 (-) Serial Killer Gilles De Rais is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Nantes, France.
His body and those of his accomplices Henriet and Poitou, also hanged, are thrown into the fire.

1685 (+) Composer Domenico Giuseppe Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy.

1811 (+) Inventor Isaac Merritt Singer is born in Pittstown, New York, USA.

1859 (x) 459 Die in Royal Charter shipwreck in Anglesey, North Wales, United Kingdom.

1881 (x) The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place in Tombstone, Arizona, USA.

1902 (+) Naturopath Alfred Dr. Vogel is born in Aesch, Switzerland.

1911 (+) Musician Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1916 (+) President of France François Mitterand is born in Jarnac, France.

1919 (+) Sjah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is born in Teheran, Iran.

1925 (+) Writer Jan Wolkers is born in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands.

1941 (+) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Holger Meins is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1942 (+) Actor Bob Hoskins is born in Suffolk, United Kingdom.

1964 (-) Serial Killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Perth, Fremantle Prison, Australia.

1964 (+) Mass Murderer Marc ‘Gamil Gharbi’ Lepine aka The Women-Hating Rambo, is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1965 (-) Sylvia Likens is tortured to death by neighbour boys, who were set up by Gertrude Baniszewski aka Gertrude Wright aka Nadine van Fossan, at the age of 16 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

1966 (x) Over 100 Die in shipwreck in the Kosi River, India.

1972 (-) Aircraft pioneer Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorsky dies at the age of 83 in Easton, Connecticut, USA.

1979 (-) President Park Tsjoeng Hie is shot dead by KCIA-chief Kimjae Kioe at the age of 62 in Korea.

1984 (-) Heavy Metal fan John D. McCollum commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19.
He had been listening to Ozzy Osbourne singing "Suicide Solution" all day long.

1995 (x) 45-year-old Serial Killer William Bill Lester Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is sentenced to death for 12 murders in Riverside, California, USA.

2002 (x) Over 170 Die in Dubrovka Theatre siege in Moscow, Russia.
After three days of occupation by 40 Chechnen terrorists the building was stormed by the Spetsnaz brigade.

2004 (-) Murderer Dominique Jerome Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

25 October 1973 - Abebe Bikila Dies

1838 (+) Composer Georges Alexandre César Leopold Bizet is born in Paris, 28 Rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, France.

1864 (+) Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan, USA.

1879 (+) Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is born in Hannover, Germany.

1881 (+) Artist Pablo Nepumuceno Crispiniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso is born in Malaga, Spain.

1894 (-) Alice Pitezel is gassed in a trunk by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Toronto, 16 St. Vincent street, Canada.

1913 (+) Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, is born in Bad Godesberg, Germany.

1920 (-) IRA-member Terence Joseph MacSwiney dies after 74 days of hungerstriking at the age of 41 in Brixton Prison, Ireland.
It was the longest hunger strike in Irish History.

1923 (-) Hermann Wolf is killed and his meat sold by by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Mordhaus Neue Straße, Germany.

1936 (+) Serial Poisoner Arnfinn Nesset is born in Norway.

1941 (-) Artist Robert Delaunay dies of cancer at the age of 56 in Montpellier, France.

1943 (-) Murderer Ruffie Lundon is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida, USA.

1957 (-) The Syndicate’s most ruthless killer, Albert Anastasia is shot dead while being shaved in New York, Sheraton Hotel, New York, USA.

1957 (-) Architect Henry Clemens Van De Velde dies at the age of 94 in Zürich, Switzerland.

1965 (-) Teresa T. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 24 in Bedzin, Poland.

1970 (-) Mary Bennallack is persumably killed by throatcutting as eighteenth victim by Zodiac in Sacramento, California, USA.

1973 (-) Athlete Abebe Bikila dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 41 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He won the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot.

1980 (-) Maureen Lea is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
She survived.

1993 (-) Actor Vincent Leonard Price dies of lung cancer at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1997 (-) Robin Atkins is asphyxiated by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 29 in Springfield, off Spring Street, Massachussets, USA.

2004 (-) BBC Dj John Peel originally Kohn Robert Parker Ravelscroft, dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Cuzco, Peru.

2005 (-) Multiple Murderer William James ‘Flip’ Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Lucasville, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.

2006 (-) Triple murderer Gregory Summers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Serial Killer Danny Harold Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Starke, Raiford Prison, Florida, USA.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

24 October 1991 - Eugene “Gene” Wesley Roddenberry

1537 (-) Third wife of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour dies of puerperal fever at the age of 29 in Hampton Court, United Kingdom.

1903 (+) FBI-agent Melvin Horace Purvis is born in Illinois, USA.

1915 (+) Designer Bob Kane aka The Father of Batman, is born in California, USA.

1918 (-) Hotelier César Ritz dies at the age of 68 in Küssnacht, Switzerland.

1925 (+) Composer Luciano Berio is born in Oneglia, Liguria, Italy.

1926 (x) 52-year-old Magician Harry Houdini performs his last magic performance show in Detroit, Garrick Theatre, Michigan, USA.

1927 (+) Musician Gilbert Bécaud is born in Toulon, France.

1929 (x) All the rich run around in panic because of the Wall Street Crash in New York, New York, USA.

1929 (-) Hubertine Meurer is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 34 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

1933 (+) Gangsters and murderous twins Reginald & Ronald Kray aka The Profession of Violence, is born in Hoxton, United Kingdom.

1935 (-) Gangster and bootlegger Arthur Flegenheimer aka Dutch Schulz, dies of peritonitis at the age of 33 in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
He was shot by Charley "The Bug" Workman 22 hours before at the Palace Chop House. His famous last words, induced by high fever and morphine were recorded by a stenographer and inspired a number of writers.

1939 (x) 34-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
She returned voluntarily, 6 days later after visiting her ill mother.

1944 (-) Automobile pioneer Louis Renault dies due to mistreatment in Fresnes Prison accused of collaboration at the age of 67 in Paris, France.

1945 (+) SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Hanna Elise Krabbe is born in Bad Bentheim, Germany.

1948 (-) Composer Franz Ferenc Lehár dies at the age of 78 in Bad Ischi, Austria.

1951 (+) Rock fan Meredith Hunter is born in California, USA.

1953 (-) Evelyn Hartley is presumably murdered by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, at the age of 15 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.

1953 (x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, marries Gabriella E. Hermosillo in Reno, Nevada, USA.

1955 (+) Double Murderer Jose Jesus Ceja is born in Arizona, USA.

1958 (-) Murderer Bart Caritativo is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 52 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

1960 (x) Over 120 skilled technicians and scientists Die in R-16 ICBM Rocket Missile explosion in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 41, Russia.
Its secondary engines were accidently ignited while is was still on the launchpad.

1962 (x) 37-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for obscenity in Hollywood, Troubadour Theatre, California, USA.

1963 (x) 137 Die in ferry capsizing in Yojoe, Han River, Korea.

1972 (-) Margaret Guilfoyle is stabbed to death and ripped to pieces by Herbert Mullin at the age of 24 in Santa Cruz, Empire Grade, California, USA.

1991 (-) Star Trek creator Eugene “Gene” Wesley Roddenberry dies at the age of 70 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1996 (x) 15-year-old Olga Galtseva is found, covered with terrible wounds during a raid on the apartment of Serial Killer and Cannibal Alexander Spesivtsev in Novokuznetsk, Siberia, Russia.
Also found are the mutilated bodies of 13-year-old Yevgenia Barashkina and 13-year-old Anastasia Burnayeva who had been missing for over a month.

2002 (x) 41-year-old Spree Killer John Allan Muhammad originally John Allan Williams aka The Beltway Sniper, and Lee Boyd Malvo are arrested in Maryland, USA.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

23 October 1998 - Winnie Ruth Judd Dies

1893 (+) Actor and filmmaker Gummo Milton Marx is born in New York, New York, USA.

1910 (-) 5th King of Thailand Rama V originally Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua aka Chulalongkorn the Great, dies at the age of 57 in Bangkok, Thailand.

1921 (-) Engineer and tyre-manufacterer John Boyd Dunlop dies at the age of 81 in Dublin, Ireland.

1923 (x) The first solo dance performance by 21-year-old Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl in München, Germany.

1925 (+) TV-host Johnny Carson is born in Coming, Iowa, USA.

1927 (+) Artist Edward Kienholz is born in Fairfield, Washington, USA.

1950 (-) Singer Al Jolson originally Asa Yoelson aka The World’s Greatest Entertainer, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in San Francisco, California, USA.

1957 (-) Fashion designer Christian Dior dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Montecatini, Tuscany, Italy.
Supposedly he suffered a heart attack during a sexual encounter with two young men.

1961 (-) Murderer Arthur Schuck is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Pennsylvania, USA.

1972 (-) Wendell Hubbard is stabbed to death and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 9 in New York, East Harlem, New York, USA.

1976 (-) Carl Denaro is attacked by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.
He survived.

1982 (-) Steven Crockett is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 19 in Kankakee, Illinois, USA.

1992 (-) Double murderer John S. Gardner is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

1998 (-) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, dies at the age of 93 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

1998 (-) Patricia Tamez is murdered by Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer, at the age of 29 in Hesperia, California, USA.

Monday, October 22, 2012

22 October 1995 - Kingsley William Amis Dies

1785 (x) 45-year-old Writer and philosopher Donatien Alphonse François De Sade begins to write his "120 Days of Sodom" on a paper roll of 11cm wide and 12m long, finishing it in just 37 days in Paris, Prison de la Bastille, France.

1811 (+) Composer Franz Ferenc Liszt is born in Raiding, Hungary.

1844 (+) Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt is born in Paris, France.

1877 (x) 207 Die in William Dixons pit 1 and 2 coal mine explosion in Blantyre, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1879 (x) 32-year-old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison tests the first incandescent light bulb in New Jersey, USA.
It burned 13 1/2 hours.

1902 (-) Maud Marsh is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, United Kingdom.

1905 (+) Radio engineer and discoverer of cosmic radio sources Karl Guthe Jansky is born in Norman, Oklahoma, USA.

1906 (-) Artist Paul Cézanne dies of delirium influenza at the age of 67 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

1909 (-) Murderer Mathew Janeigaj is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Oregon, USA.

1913 (x) 263 Die in coal-mine explosion in Dawson, New Mexico, USA.

1920 (+) Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary is born in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.

1925 (+) Artist Robert milton Ernst Rauschenberg is born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.

1934 (-) Gangster Charles Arthur Floyd aka Pretty Boy, is shot dead by the FBI in a shoot-out at the age of 30 in East Liverpool, Ohio, USA.

1936 (+) Founding member of the Black Panther Party Bobby Robert George Seale is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1942 (-) Sex-murderer Ronald Fearn is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in Canon City, Colorado, USA.

1943 (+) Actress Catherine Deneuve is born in Paris, France.

1948 (+) Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1949 (x) 200 Die in train derailment in Nowy Dwor, Poland.

1960 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Heinrich Pommerencke aka The Beast of the Black Forest, is convicted to life-imprisonment in Freiburg, Germany.

1970 (x) 62-year-old Camp-commander Franz Stangl aka The Bully of Treblinka, is convicted for the murder of over 400.000 jews and sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany.

1971 (-) Polizeimeister Norbert Schmid is shot dead by Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Hamburg, Germany.
He is the first deadly victim of the terrorist movement.

1977 (-) Glen Parks is shot dead by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 47 in Bellmead, Texas, USA.

1978 (x) 21-year-old Sex Pistol Sid Vicious originally Simon John Ritchie, attempts to commit suicide by slashing his wrists in New York, New York, USA.

1979 (x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, is arrested in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, USA.

1981 (-) Suzanna Cambi is shot dead and mutilated as seventh and eighth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 24 in Florence, Calenzano, Italy.
Suzanna’s pubis had been removed.

1987 (-) Actor Lino Angiolino Joseph Pascal Ventura dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Paris, St. Cloud, France.

1995 (-) Writer Kingsley William Amis dies at the age of 73 in London, United Kingdom.

1996 (-) Performance artist and political activist Kathy Change commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 46 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Alan Bannister is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Missouri, USA.

1998 (-) Patricia Tamez is raped, beaten and a breast severed before being strangled by Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer, at the age of 29 in Victorville, California, USA.

2001 (-) Murderer Gerald Lee Mitchell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd is executed by lethal injection in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
He was the 1000th person executed in the USA after the ban on capital punishment was lifted.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

21 October 1969 - Jack Kerouac Dies

1440 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Gilles De Rais makes a full confession of his crimes in court in Nantes, France.

1805 (-) Admiral Horatio Nelson is shot in the spine during the Battle of Trafalgar at the age of 47.

1833 (+) Inventor of dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel aka The Merchant of Death, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1888 (+) Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring, Carin Göring originally Carin Frelin von Fock, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1917 (+) Musician Dizzy John Birks Gillespie is born in Cheraw, South Carolina, USA.

1926 (-) Mabel Fluke is raped and strangled as eighth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1926 (+) Pilot Felix Moncia is born in the USA.

1930 (+) Murderer Richard L. Jordan is born in Arizona, USA.

1946 (+) Musician Lux Interior originally Erick Lee Purkhiser, is born in Akron, Ohio, USA.

1966 (x) 116 children and 28 adults Die in coal-slag avalanche in Aberfan, United Kingdom.

1969 (-) Writer Jack Kerouac dies of a liver disease at the age of 47 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

1971 (x) 24-year-old Manson Family-member Tex Charles Denton Watson is sentenced to die in the Gas Chamber for the Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1980 (-) Pediatrician Hans Asperger dies at the age of 74 in Wien, Austria.

1984 (-) Filmmaker François Roland Truffaut dies of a brain tumour at the age of 52 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1985 (-) Assassin of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, Dan White commits suicide by coal-monoxide-poisoning at the age of 39 in California, USA.

1989 (x) 132 Die in Boeing 727 crash in Honduras.

1989 (-) Dorothy Keeler is is found skeletonised, beaten to death by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 59 in Genesee Gorge, New York, USA.

1998 (-) Musician Jim Shepard commits suicide at the age of 44 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Arthur Martin Boyd is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2006 (-) Writer John Symonds dies at the age of 92 in United Kingdom.
He was a close friend of Aleister Crowley.

2007 (-) Artist R.B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj commits suicide by suffocation at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

20 October 1994 Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster Dies

1187 (-) 172nd Pope Urbanus III originally Uberto Crivelli, dies of grief in Ferrara, Italy.

1854 (+) Writer Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud is born in Charleville, France.

1874 (+) Composer Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.

1880 (+) Nazi-doctor and aeronautic experimentor Hans August Rascher is born in Fürstenfeldbruch, Germany.

1882 (+) Actor Bela Lugosi originally Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko, is born in Lugos, Hungary.

1891 (-) Matilda Clover is poisoned by Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, at the age of 27 in the United Kingdom.

1894 (+) Actress Olive Thomas originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy, is born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA.

1910 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Brinkmann is born in Clausthal, Germany.

1926 (-) Virginia Grant is strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 59 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1944 (x) 130 Die in liquid gas reservoir explosion in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1946 (+) Writer Elfriede Jelinek is born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria.

1953 (+) Musician Tom Thomas Earl Petty is born in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

1961 (x) Over 500 Die in train derailment in Calcutta, India.

1964 (-) 31st president of the USA Herbert Clark Hoover dies at the age of 90 in New York, New York, USA.

1965 (-) President of the United Industrial Worker’s Union John Kilpatrick is shot dead by Dana H. Nash in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1968 (x) 39-year-old First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy originally Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie, marries 62-year-old Billionaire Aristoteles Onassis in Skorpios, Greece.

1973 (-) Quita Hague and her friend Richard are attacked by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 28 in San Francisco, Pennsylvania Avenue, California, USA.
Richard survived despite terrible machete-wounds.

1981 (x) 3 Die in Fascist bomb explosion in Jewish Diamond Centre, Antwerp, Belgium.
Over 100 people are wounded.

1981 (x) Serial Killer Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for assaulting a hitchhiker in France.

1981 (-) Danny Davis is abducted, tortured and murdered by Arthur Bishop at the age of 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

1985 (x) Twentieth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes against the organisers of an anti-nuclear rally in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

1994 (-) Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1998 (x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Parker aka The Bedroom Basher, is convicted to death on six counts of first-degree murder in Santa Ana, California, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Ricky Eugene Morrow is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Murder contractor Luis Ramirez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He hired Edward Bell to kill the boyfriend of his ex-wife.

Friday, October 19, 2012

19 October 2007 - Jan Wolkers Dies

1745 (-) Writer Jonathan Swift dies at the age of 77 in Dublin, Ireland.

1858 (+) Wife-murderer Charles Chapin aka Sing Sing’s Rose Man, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1862 (+) Film pioneer Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas Lumière is born in Besançon, France.

1882 (+) Artist Umberto Boccioni is born in Reccio di Calabria, Italy.

1893 (-) Abolitionist and Suffragette Lucy Stone dies of stomach cancer at the age of 75 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1897 (-) Inventor and ruthless industrialist George Mortimer Pullman known for the Pullman Sleeping Car, dies at the age of 66 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1909 (-) Criminologist Cesare Ezechia Marco Lombroso dies at the age of 70 in Turin, Italy.

1926 (-) Beatrice Withers is raped and strangled as sixth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 35 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1927 (+) Plotter of the assassination of president De Gaulle, Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry is born in Lunéville, France.

1928 (-) Kidnapper and Murderer Edward Hickman is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

1931 (+) Writer John le Carré originally David John Moore Cornwell, is born in Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom.

1943 (-) Artist Camille Claudel dies at the age of 78 in Montfavet, France.
She spent the last 30 years of her life in the Asile de Montdevergues.

1944 (+) Murderer Ronald Clark O’Bryan aka The Pixy Stix Killer, is born in Pasadena, Texas, USA.

1944 (+) Musician Peter Tosh originally Winston Hubert McIntosh aka Stepping Razor, is born in Kingston, Jamaïca.

1945 (+) Actor Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine, The Dirtiest Man in the World, is born in Towson, Maryland, USA.

1956 (+) Physician Carlo Urbani known for first identifying Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome aka SARS, is born in Castelplanio, Italy.

1959 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 28-year-old woman in St. Martin’s, Jersey.

1964 (-) VietCong terrorist Nguyen Van Troi is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 17 in Saigon, Vietnam.

1970 (-) Victor Ohta is shot dead by John Linley Frazier at the age of 47 in Santa Cruz, Soquel, California, USA.
In the same event also the Ohta children 11-year-old Taggart, 12-year-old Derrick and their nurse Dorothy Cadwallader are killed.

1974 (-) Doris Hovey is shot through the head by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, at the age of 53 in Woodford, Virginia, USA.

1976 (-) Murderer Michaian Shobek is executed by hanging in Nassau, Bahamas.

1980 (x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Vlaamse Primitieven" with Kamagurka and De Vlaamse Primitieven in Koningshooikt, Zaal Alcazar, Belgium.

1983 (x) 4 skeletonised victims of 30-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, are found in Lake Village, Indiana, USA.

1984 (-) Catholic Priest Jerzy Popieluszko is kidnapped and murdered by the secret police Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa at the age of 37 in Poland.
His body was found 10 days later in the Vistula Water Reservoir.

1984 (x) In a nation-wide ‘Mammouth’-operation the authorities try to track down members of the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Belgium.

1985 (x) Nineteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Namur, Military Promotion Centre, Namur, Belgium.

1987 (x) 5 of the highest ranked generals of the Red Army, Vladimir Sjoetov, Erlen Porfiyev, Vladimir Bardashevsky, Kiril Trofimov and Joeri Rybinin are killed in a helicopter crash in Russia.

1988 (x) 131 Die in Air India Boeing 737 crash in Ahmadabad, India.

1998 (-) Serial Killer Fritz Honka dies at the age of 63 in Hamburg-Langenhorn, Krankenhaus Ochsenzoll, Germany.

2007 (-) Writer Jan Wolkers dies of erysipelas aka "Holy Fire" at the age of 82 in Texel, the Netherlands.

2009 (-) Spree Killer Howard Barton Unruh dies at the age of 88 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA.
He was confined to the high-security Vroom Building for the criminally insane at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital until 1993, when he was transferred across the grounds to less restrictive wards in a geriatric unit.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

18 October 1977 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Rapse and Gudrun Ensslin Commit Suicide

1405 (+) 210th Pope Pius II originally Enea Silvio Piccolomini, is born in Corsignano, Italy.

1417 (-) 205th Pope Gregorius XII originally Angelo Corrario, dies in Rome, Italy.

1503 (-) 215th Pope Pius III originally Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, dies of an ulcer in his leg at the age of 64 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
Some sources say he was poisoned.

1777 (+) Poet, dramatist and writer Heinrich Bernd Wilhelm von Kleist is born in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, Germany.

1851 (x) The novel "Moby Dick" by 32-year-old Writer Herman Melville is first published as "The Whale" by Richard Bentley in London, United Kingdom.

1898 (+) Actress Lotte Lenya originally Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, is born in Wien, Austria.

1920 (+) Musician and politician Melina Mercouri is born in Athens, Greece.

1926 (+) Actor Klaus Kinski originally Nikolausz Gunther Nakszynski, is born in Zoppot, Poland.

1926 (+) Musician Chuck Charles Edward Anderson Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

1927 (+) Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is born in Bedzinie, Poland.

1931 (-) Inventor Thomas Alva Edison dies at the age of 84 in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.

1939 (+) Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, is born in New Orleans, Old French Hospital, Louisiana, USA.

1944 (+) Cop Killer Barry Peter Prudom is born in the United Kingdom.

1947 (+) Leader of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, Luc Jouret is born in Kikwit, Zaïre.

1957 (+) Mass Murderer James Dean Clark is born in Arizona, USA.

1960 (+) Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is born in Belgium.

1960 (+) Murderer Jess James Gillies is born in Arizona, USA.

1971 (x) 67-year-old USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin is attacked by an unidentified demonstrator in Ottawa, Canadian Parliament, Canada.

1974 (-) Melissa Smith is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 17 in Salt Lake City, Midvale, Utah, USA.

1977 (+) Triple murderer Lamont Reese is born in Texas, USA.

1977 (-) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Bernd Baader commits suicide by a shot in the head with a FEG 7.65 pistol at the age of 34 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 719, Germany.

1977 (-) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Jan-Carl Raspe commits suicide by a shot in the head with a Heckler & Koch 9mm pistol at the age of 33 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 716, Germany.
He was alive when guards found him in the morning but died in the hospital.

1977 (-) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Gudrun Ensslin commits suicide by hanging with a length of speaker cable at the age of 37 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 720, Germany.

1977 (x) 30-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Irmgard Möller stabbs herself four times in the heart region with a pair of scissors in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 725, Germany.
She survived.

1977 (-) President of the German Employers’ Association Hanns Martin Schleyer is executed after being held prisoner of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Commando Siegfried Hausner for 44 days at the age of 62 in Mulhouse, France.

1978 (-) Assassin of Leon Trotsky, Ramón del Rio Hernández Mercader aka Jacques Mornard aka Frank Jacson, dies at the age of 64 in Havana, Cuba.

1985 (-) ANC-militant Benjamin Moloise is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in South Africa.

1991 (-) Murderer Michael McDougall is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

1991 (-) Murderer G. W. Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Tamil Bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is lured into an ambush by the Tamil Nadu State Special Task Force and gunned down at the age of 52 in Paparapatti, Dharmapuri, India.

2005 (x) 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "2 Throatstuckers" with Hanggai throatsinger Yilichi in Beijing, 2Kolegas Bar, China.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

17 October 1970 - Pierre Laporte is Found Dead

1849 (-) Composer Frédéric François Chopin dies of tuberculosis at the age of 39 in Paris, France.

1874 (x) 44-year-old Photographer Eadweard James Muybridge shoots Major Harry Larkin through the heart because he was dating his wife Flora in San Francisco, California, USA.
"Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife."

1889 (+) Murderess Juanita Eithel Leta Spinelli aka The Duchess, is born in Kentucky, USA.

1892 (+) First commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke is born in Hudingen, Elsaa-Lothringen, Germany.

1898 (+) Writer Simon Vestdijk is born in Harlingen, the Netherlands.

1912 (+) 263rd Pope John Paul I originally Albino Luciani, is born in Canale d'Agordo, Italy.

1915 (+) Playwright and author Arthur Asher Miller is born in New York, New York, USA.

1918 (+) Actress Rita Hayworth originally Marguerita Carmen Cansino, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1919 (+) Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang is born in Hua County, Henan, China.

1920 (+) Actor Montgomery ‘Monty’ Clift is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

1930 (+) Writer Jimmy Breslin is born in Jamaica, New York, USA.

1931 (-) Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring Carin Göring originally Carin Frelin von Fock, dies of heart failure at the age of 43 in Stockholm, Sweden.

1933 (+) Dominican nun and musician Jeanine Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers aka Sœur Sourire aka The Singing Nun, is born in Brussels, Belgium.

1938 (+) Daredevil Evel Robert Craig Knievel is born in Butte, Montana, USA.

1967 (-) The Last Emperor of China Henry Puyi dies of kidney cancer and heart disease at the age of 61 in Beijing, China.

1970 (-) Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte aka Minister of Unemployment and Assimilation, is found strangled in the booth of a car after being kidnapped 8 days earlier by the Front de Libération de Quebec at the age of 49 in Quebec, Canada.

1972 (x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in Watertown, New York, USA.

1975 (-) Teresa Knowlton is drugged and drowned by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, in Pattaya Beach, Thailand.

1977 (-) Yolanda Washington is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, in Los Angeles, Hollywood Freeway, California, USA.

1977 (-) Vida Menas is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 18 in Dolenja Vas, Yugoslavia.

1977 (-) Russel Nelson is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1977 (x) The Lufthansa Flight 181 "Landshut" Boeing is stormed by German GSG9 commandos in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Two hijackers are killed all hostages are rescued.

1984 (x) Fifth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Gent, Christian Party Headquarters, East Flanders, Belgium.

1984 (-) Writer and painter Henri Michaux dies at the age of 85 in Paris, France.

1990 (-) Murderer Wilbert Lee Evans is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
During the electrocution, blood spewed from Evens’ right side face, drenching his shirt with blood.

1990 (-) Wadim Gromow is stabbed to death and his tongue bitten off by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Russia.

1997 (x) A 15-year-old Unidentified boy is sentenced to indefinite detention at a juvenile prison in Kobe, Japan.
He was convicted of assaulting five children and murdering two.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

16 October 1981 - Moshe Dayan Dies

1553 (-) Artist Lucas Cranach the Elder originally Lucas Sunder, dies at the age of 81 in Weimar, Germany.

1708 (+) Scientist and poet Albrecht von Haller is born in Bern, Switzerland.

1793 (-) Excessive Queen of France Marie Antoinette originally Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 37 in Paris, France.

1799 (-) Composer Antoine Frederic Gresnick dies at the age of 44 in Paris, France.

1854 (+) Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1872 (+) Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte is born in Albania.

1886 (+) Architect of Israël David Gruen Ben Gurion is born in Plonsk, Poland.

1888 (x) Serial Killer Jack the Ripper mails a human kidney, ripped from the body of Catherine Eddowes, ‘From Hell’ to George Lusk, head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, United Kingdom.

1908 (+) Leader of Albania Enver Hoxha is born in Gjirokaster, Albania.

1909 (+) Murderer Rainey Bethea is born in Roanoke, Virginia, USA.

1914 (+) King of the Gypsies Christian Johannes Modeste is born.

1927 (+) Writer Günter Wilhelm Grass is born in Gdansk, Poland.

1931 (-) Hedvig Samuelson aka Sammy, is stabbed and shot dead by Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, at the age of 24 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Judd cut the bodies in pieces and mailed them in trunks to Los Angeles, where they were discovered 3 days later, blood seeping from one of them.

1934 (x) 40-year-old Revolutionary leader and architect of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong starts his Long March in Yudu, Jiangxi, China.
The march covered about 12.500 kilometres in 370 days.

1936 (+) Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is born in Jablotschnoje, Achtyra, Sumy, Russia.

1937 (-) Roger Leblond is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 24 in Neuilly, France.

1939 (+) Musician and Femme Fatale Christa Paffgen aka Nico, is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1946 (-) Serial Killer Neville George Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.

1946 (x) 53-year-old Joachim Von Ribbentrop, 64-year-old Wilhelm Keitel, 45-year-old Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 53-year-old Alfred Rosenberg, 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick, 47-year-old Hans Frank, 61-year-old Julius Streicher, 52-year-old Fritz Sauckel, 54-year-old Alfred Jodl and 54-year-old Arthur Seiss-Inquart are executed by hanging for crimes against humanity by John Woods in Nürnberg, gymnastics-hall of the prison, Bavaria, Germany.

1955 (x) 14-year-old Robert Peterson, 13-year-old John and 11-year-old Anton Schuessler are found molested, strangled and beaten to death by an unidentified sex-killer in Chicago, Robinson Woods Forest Preserve, Illinois, USA.

1955 (+) IRA-member Kieran Doherty originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh, is born in Belfast, Ireland.

1959 (x) 20-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, arrives in Moscow, Russia.

1974 (-) Karen Wein is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Marlboro, Connecticut, USA.

1975 (-) Susan Dye is presumably strangled a forty-seventh victim by Zodiac in Santa Rosa, California, USA.

1981 (-) Politician and Military Leader Moshe Dayan dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

1985 (-) Murderer William E. Vandiver is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Indiana, USA.
He was still breathing after the first administration of 2,300 volts, and the current had to be applied three more times before he died.

1991 (-) Mass Murderer George Hennard commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 35 in Killeen, Texas, USA.
He first drove his van into "Luby’s Restaurant" and started shooting around, killing 23 and wounding another 15.

1995 (x) Eleventh bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Stronsdorf, Austria.
Three mail-bombs explode, several people are injured.

1995 (x) Twelfth bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Graz, Austria.
Four mail-bombs explode while still at post-offices, several people are injured.

1995 (x) 43-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is released from prison in Stuttgart, Germany.

1996 (x) 80 Die in soccer-tribune collaps in the game Guatemala-Costa Rica in Guatemala City, Mateo Flores Stadium, Guatemala.

1996 (x) 94 Die in Estado Mateas Flores stampede in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
47.000 soccer fans tried to squeeze in the 36.000 seat stadium.

1996 (-) Consensual victim Sharon Rina Lopatka originally Sharon Denburg, is tortured and strangled by Robert Fredrick Glass at the age of 35 in North Carolina, USA.

1997 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Bai Baoshan is arrested and charged with 14 murders in Beijing, China.

2004 (x) 46-year-old Son of Marlon, Christian Brando marries 48-year-old Deborah Presley in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Deborah claimed to be Elvis Presley's illegitimate daughter.

Monday, October 15, 2012

15 October 1946 - Hermann Göring Commits Suicide

55bc (-) Poet and philosopher Titus Carus Lucretius commits suicide by drinking a love potion at the age of 44 in Italy.

1398 (-) 202nd Pope Urbanus VI originally Bartolomeo Prignano, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.

1564 (-) Anatomist Andreas Vesalius dies at the age of 49 in Zakynthos, Greece.

1591 (-) 229th Pope Gregorius XIV originally Niccolo Spondrati, dies at the age of 56 in Rome, Italy.

1816 (x) 28-year-old Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, visits the Ambrosian Library to read the love letters of Lucrezia Borgia and steals a lock of her hair in Milan, Italy.

1844 (+) Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is born in Rocken, Saxony, Germany.

1881 (+) Writer Pelham ‘Plum’ Grenville Wodehouse is born in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1917 (-) Spy Margaretha Geertruida Zelle aka Mata Hari, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 41 in Vinçennes, France.

1920 (+) Writer Mario Gianluigi Puzo is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.

1926 (+) Philosopher Michel Foucault is born in Poitiers, France.

1932 (+) Artist Wolf Vostell is born in Leverkusen, Germany.

1935 (-) Rapist and multiple murderer Jerry Gerald Thompson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Joliet Prison, Illinois, USA.

1935 (-) Murderer John Favorito is executed by Old Sparky in Trenton State Prison, USA.
The executioner is almost knocked out when he touches the body, which was loaded with electric current after the execution.

1938 (+) Musician and politician Fela Anikulapo Kuti originally Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, is born in Abeokuta, Nigeria.

1940 (+) Student Benno Ohnesorg is born in Hannover, Germany.

1941 (-) Mass Cop Killer Eric Stanley George Graham is shot dead by the police in New Zealand.

1945 (-) Politician and Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 62 in Paris, France.
He was a Nazi-collaborator during the war.

1946 (-) Nazi-leader Hermann Göring commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 53 in Nürnberg Prison, Bavaria, Germany.

1946 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Bernhard Rössner is born in München, Germany.

1946 (+) Musician Richard Lynn Carpenter is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1956 (+) Mass Murderer George Hennard is born in Texas, USA.

1959 (x) 20-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is discharged from the US Army because of his bizarre obsessions in Fort Gordon, Georgia, USA.

1962 (+) Serial Killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, is born in Vitry-le-François, France.

1964 (-) Musician Cole Albert Porter dies of pneumonia and a heart attack at the age of 72 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1966 (x) The Black Panther Party is founded by 24-year-old Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, USA.

1967 (+) Murderer Desmond Keith Carter is born in North Carolina, USA.

1967 (-) Protester Florence Beaumont commits suicide by self-immolation in Los Angeles, Federal Building, California, USA.
She was protesting the US involvement in the war in Vietnam.

1971 (-) Marie-Therese Rosseel is assaulted, stabbed to death, mutilated and raped by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 18 in Muizen, Muizenhoek 1, Antwerp, Belgium.

1972 (-) Laura Brook is killed by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, in Bellingham, Washington, USA.

1977 (-) Christine Eadie is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 17 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1982 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.

1982 (x) 24-year-old Ralf Erb is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder committed by Serial Killer Kurt Steinwegs in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1983 (-) An unidentified boy is found as skeletonised victim by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Rensseler, Indiana, USA.

1984 (x) Fourth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Liberal Politic Centre, Brabant, Belgium.

1986 (-) Ex-wife of Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline Picasso commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 60 in Mougins, Villa Notre Dame de la Vie, France.

1992 (x) 56-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is sentenced to death in Rostow, House of Justice, Russia.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

14 October 1990 - Leonard Bernstein Dies

1874 (-) Murderer Pierre Desiré Moreau is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 32 in Paris, France.
A large crowd showed up to witness the public spectacle.

1876 (+) Gangster Jules Bonnot is born in Montbéliard, France.

1890 (+) 34th president of the USA Dwight David Eisenhower aka Ike, is born in Denison, Texas, USA.

1895 (-) Murderer J. Q.A. Crews is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.

1912 (+) Victim of John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, Muriel Amelia Eady is born in the United Kingdom.

1912 (x) 54-year-old 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt is shot by John Schrank, but the bullet is plowed down by a bulky speech in the president’s pocket in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1927 (+) Actor Roger Moore is born in London, United Kingdom.

1935 (+) Minimal composer La Monte Thornton Young is born in Bern, Idaho, USA.

1943 (x) About 300 to 600 prisoners die in an attempt to escape from a concentration-camp in Sobibor, Poland.

1944 (-) Nazi Leader Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel aka The Desert Fox, commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 52 in Herrlingen, Germany.
He was forced to commit suicide because he planned to kill his Führer.

1944 (+) Leader of the Revolutionary Euskadi ta Askatasuna Txabi Etxebarrieta aka Xabier Etxebarrieta Ortiz, is born in Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain.
He was the first ETA-member to be shot dead by the Guardia Civil

1944 (+) Actor Udo Kier originally Udo Kierspe, is born in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1953 (+) Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long aka Bound to Die, is born in Kenova, West Virginia, USA.

1953 (-) Valentin Lehmann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.

1958 (+) Musician Thomas Dolby originally Thomas Morgan Robertson, is born in Caïro, Egypt.

1959 (-) Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1968 (x) Start of the trial against the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll and Horst Sohnlein for an arson-attack on Kaufhaus Schneider in Frankfurter Landgericht, Germany.

1970 (x) Bomb attack by The Proud Eagle Tribe of Weather, the Women's Brigade of the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Harvard Center for International Affairs in Harvard, New York, USA.
It was a reaction to Black Activist Angela Davis' arrest and a protest against the war in Vietnam.

1974 (+) Porn actress Jessica Drake is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1977 (-) Musician and actor Bing Crosby originally Harry Lillis, dies at the age of 73 in Madrid, Spain.

1979 (-) Alonzo Daniels is abducted, molested and killed by Arthur Bishop at the age of 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

1979 (-) Christie Hayes is abducted and assaulted by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
She managed to escape.

1983 (x) Melvin Reynolds is released from prison after serving 4 years for a murder committed by 54-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, in Missouri, USA.

1983 (+) Porn actress Vanessa Lane is born in New York, New York, USA.

1985 (-) Mafia Godfather Bekir Celenk dies of a heart attack in Turkey.

1990 (-) Composer Leonard Bernstein dies of lung-inefficiency at the age of 72 in New York, New York, USA.

1997 (-) Writer Harold Robbins originally Francis Kane and given the adoptive name Harold Rubin, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 81 in Monte Carlo, France.

1999 (-) Murderer Jerry McFadden is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (x) 123 Die in Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 Boeing B767-260ER crash in Le Galawa Beach, Comoros.
The plane had been hijacked by three Ethiopians seeking asylum and finally crashed due to lack of fuel. 52 people survived.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

13 October 1961 - Maya Deren originally Eleanora Derenkovskaya Dies

1563 (+) Religious founder and saint Francesco Caracciolo is born in Villa Santa Maria, Italy.

1872 (+) Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, is born in Moscow, Rush County, Indiana, USA.

1891 (-) Ellen Donworth is poisoned by Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, at the age of 19 in the United Kingdom.

1921 (+) Actor Yves Montand originally Ivo Levi, is born in Monsumagno, Italy.

1925 (+) Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, is born in Grantham, United Kingdom.

1925 (+) Comedian Lenny Bruce is born in Long Island, New York, USA.

1941 (+) Musician Paul Frederic Simon is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

1961 (-) Filmmaker Maya Deren originally Eleanora Derenkovskaya, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 44 in New York, New York, USA.
There were also rumors of a Voodoo curse, the use of suspect vitamin shots from Max Jacobcon, known as 'Doctor Feelgood'.

1969 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and includes a bloody scrap from his eighth victim’s shirt in San Francisco, California, USA.

1969 (-) Clida Delaney is probably strangled by The Manson Family at the age of 64 in Ukiah, US Highway 101, California, USA.

1969 (+) Murderer Mark Anthony Stroman is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1972 (-) Lawrence White is beaten to death by Herbert Mullin at the age of 55 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

1972 (x) 176 Die in Aeroflot Ilyushin II-62 crash in Moscow, Russia.

1972 (x) 29 Die in Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Fairchild FH-227D crash in Chile.
16 people survived in the mountainous region on human meat for over 2 months.

1976 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in New Jersey, USA.

1976 (x) 100 Die in Boeing 707 cargo jet crash in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
97 children were killed on the ground.

1977 (x) The Lufthansa Flight 181 "Landshut" Boeing is skyjacked by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestina between Mallorca and Frankfurt and held hostage in return for release of 11 imprisoned members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Germany.

1978 (x) 50-year-old Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, marries Anna Christine Sallings Sandhu in the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, USA.

1981 (-) Jan Nielsen is kicked to death by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 26 in Faborg, Denmark.

1984 (-) Mass-Murderer Linwood Earl Briley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Richmond State Penitentiary, Virginia, USA.

1984 (-) Karen Dinsfriend is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 28 in Tampa, Florida, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Gary Lee Davis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Colorado State Penitentiary, Colorado, USA.
He was the first person executed in Colorado since 30 years and the first by lethal injection.

1998 (-) Multiple Murderer Jeremy Sagastegui is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.
He said he had also killed a child to make sure he'd get the death penalty, at his trial he refused all defense and pleaded guilty.

Friday, October 12, 2012

12 October 1978 - Nancy Spungen is Stabbed to Death

1654 (x) Over 100 Die in gunpowder store explosion in Delft, the Netherlands.

1875 (+) Magick Master Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast 666, is born in Leamington, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.

1891 (+) Carmelite nun and martyr Edith Stein aka Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is born in Breslau, Germany.

1915 (-) Nurse Edith Louisa Cavell is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 49 in Brussels, Nationale Schietbaan, Brabant, Belgium.
She and her friend Philippe Baucq, who was also executed, were sentenced to death for offering help to British soldiers.

1923 (-) Wilhelm Erdner is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Mordhaus Neue Straße, Germany.

1935 (+) Tenor Luciano Pavarotti is born in Modena, Italy.

1937 (-) Thief and multiple murderer Fritz Ophuls is executed by the Guillotine in Germany.
He was sentenced to death for over 120 crimes.

1943 (+) Murderer Jeffrey Robert MacDonald is born in Queens, Jamaica, New York, USA.

1946 (+) Neighbour to David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, John Charles Carr is born in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.
Berkowitz believed Carr’s dog to be Satan who gave him visionary messages.

1949 (+) Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is born in Caracas, Venezuela.

1969 (x) 34-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is arrested in a police-raid on the Barker Ranch in Death Valley, California, USA.
He was hiding in a small cupboard under a sink and spotted by his hair sticking out of the door. Also arrested are Beth Tracy aka Collie Sinclair, Diane Bluestein aka Shake Lake, Sherry Andrews aka Claudia Leigh Smith, John Philip Haught aka Zero Christopher Jesus, Kenneth R. Brown aka Scott Bell Davis, Lee Hamic aka William Rex Cole aka Bill Vance, Vern Edward Thompson aka Plumlee, Lawrence L. Bailey aka Little Larry and Bruce Davis. They are all charged with auto-theft.

1970 (x) Five bomb attacks by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen in Rochester, New York, USA.
There are also two attacks in New York City and one in Orlando, Florida.

1971 (-) Musician Gene Vincent originally Vincent Eugene Craddock, dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 36 in California, USA.

1974 (-) Arlis Perry is raped, tortured and ritually murdered by cultists at the age of 19 in Stanford, University Memorial Church, California, USA.

1978 (-) Susan Geiger is sexually tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 19 in South Hackensack, Airport Motel, New Jersey, USA.
She survived.

1978 (-) Nancy Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy, is stabbed to death by Sid Vicious originally Simon John Ritchie, at the age of 20 in New York, Chelsea Hotel, New York, USA.

1980 (x) 33-year-old Mass Murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, tries to escape from prison by use of a replica handgun made out of breadcrumb in Gent, De Nieuwe Wandeling, Belgium.
He is caught on the roof of the prison.

1982 (-) Craig Townsend is handcuffed, severely beaten up and left in a coma by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Lowell, Indiana, USA.
He survived.

1985 (x) Seventeenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Charleroi, Acec factory, Hainaut, Belgium.

1985 (x) Eighteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Charleroi, Taxpaying offices, Hainaut, Belgium.

1993 (x) 53 members of a cult commit suicide by axes and other primitive weaponry after Blind Cult Leader Ca Van Liem promised them they’d go straight to heaven in Ta He, Vietnam.

1997 (-) Musician John Denver originally Henry John Deutschendorf, crashes into the sea with his private airplane at the age of 53 in Monterey, California, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Alvin Wayne Crane is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2001 (-) Murderer David Junior Ward is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2002 (-) Musician Ray Raymond Conniff dies at the age of 82 in Escondido, California, USA.

2002 (x) 202 Die in Paddy's Pub and Sari Club bomb attack by Islamic terrorists in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia.

2004 (-) Murderer Donald Loren Aldrich is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

11 October 1963 - Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau Dies

1492 (x) 41-year-old Explorer Christoffel Columbus lands on the Bahamas and calls it San Salvador.

1872 (+) Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison is born in Blackheath, United Kingdom.

1885 (+) Writer François Charles Mauriac is born in Bordeaux, France.

1896 (-) Composer Anton Bruckner dies at the age of 72 in Vienna, Austria.

1921 (-) Black Wylie McNeely is lynched by burning for insulting a white woman in Leesburg, Texas, USA.

1925 (+) Writer Elmore Leonard is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1925 (-) FBI-agent Edwin Shanahan is gunned down by Martin Durkin at the age of 31 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1929 (-) Elisabeth Dorrier is bludgeoned to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 22 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1934 (-) Tilda Blomqvist is killed in an arsoned housefire by Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor, in Västerfärnebo, Sweden.

1940 (-) Ingeborg Gotz is attacked by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Germany.
She survived.

1942 (+) Mass Murderer James Oliver Huberty aka Hunting Humans, is born in Canton, Ohio, USA.

1954 (+) Manager of The Doors, Daniel Danny Sugarman is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1963 (-) Artist, writer and filmmaker Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Milly-la-Forêt, France.

1963 (-) Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, dies of internal bleeding at the age of 47 in France.

1966 (-) Jolanta G. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 18 in Bedzin, Poland.

1969 (-) Paul Stine is shot dead as eighth victim by Zodiac at the age of 29 in San Francisco, California, USA.

1976 (-) Monika Pfeiffer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 18 in Mainz, Germany.

1979 (-) Yvonne Mysliniec is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Ilkley, United Kingdom.
She survived.

1980 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi is born in al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.

1985 (x) 26-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Lips of Osiris Ani" with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK at the Animal-Végétal exhibition in Brussels, Atelier 340, Brabant, Belgium.

1998 (x) Carmelite nun and martyr Edith Stein aka Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is canonized by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

10 October 1985 - George Orson Welles Dies

1813 (+) Composer Giuseppe Verdi is born in Roncole, Parma, Italy.

1889 (+) Painter and forger Han Henricus Antonius Van Meegeren is born in Deventer, the Netherlands.

1894 (-) Howard Pitezel is strangled by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Indianapolis, Irvington, Indiana, USA.

1901 (+) Artist Alberto Giacometti is born in Borgonova, Graubunden, Switzerland.

1903 (-) Murderer Willis Burton is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.

1903 (-) Murderer Fred Van Wormer is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.

1913 (x) 136 Die in Volturno shipwreck in the Atlantic.

1917 (+) Composer Thelonius Sphere Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA.

1923 (-) Child Murderess Susan Newell is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Glasgow, Duke Street Prison, United Kingdom.

1924 (+) Filmmaker Edward D. Davis Wood Jr. is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.

1925 (x) 25-year-old Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, marries Anna Schoeffler in New York, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Strongman and eccentric Antonio Barichievich aka The Great Antonio, is born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

1930 (+) Dramatist Harold Pinter is born in London, Hackney, United Kingdom.

1931 (x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, is arrested in Vienna, Austria.

1933 (+) Hair stylist and Manson Family victim Jay Sebring originally Thomas John Kummer, is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

1939 (-) Sing-Sing Prison Chief Executioner Robert Greene Elliott dies at the age of 65 in Hamlin, New York, USA.

1947 (+) Shocking Blue singer Mariska Veres is born in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

1948 (+) Victim of John Reginald Christie, Geraldine Evans daughter of Beryl and Timothy Evans, The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1949 (x) 20-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for forgery in Maryville, Missouri, USA.

1949 (-) Leopold and Esther Goodman are murdered by Daniel Raven in Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

1970 (x) 49-year-old Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte aka Minister of Unemployment and Assimilation, is kidnapped by the Front de Libération de Quebec in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada.

1970 (x) Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Queens traffic-court building in support for the prison riots in New York, New York, USA.

1972 (-) James Willet is shot dead, beheaded and buried on a hikers trail by The Manson Family at the age of 26 in San Francisco, Guerneville, California, USA.

1980 (-) Cherie Ayers is raped and killed by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1985 (-) Actor Yul Yuliy Borisovich Brynner dies of lung cancer at the age of 65 in New York, New York, USA.

1985 (-) Actor and filmmaker George Orson Welles dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1986 (-) Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gerold Von Braunmuhl is shot dead by Rote Armee Fraktion in Bonn, Germany.
The Ingrid Schubert Commando claims responsability.

2004 (-) Actor Christopher D’Olier Reeve aka Superman, dies of heart failure at the age of 52 in New York, New York, USA.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

9 October 1978 - Jacques Romain Georges Brel Dies

1799 (x) 240 Die in HMS Lutine shipwreck in Ijzergat, the Netherlands.

1859 (+) French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is born in Mulhouse, Alsace, France.

1890 (+) The world’s most pulchritudinous evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson originally Aimée Elisabeth Kennedy aka Sister Aimée, is born in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.

1898 (+) Egypt’s most famous writer Tawfiq El-Hakim is born in Alexandria, Egypt.

1908 (+) Actor and filmmaker Jacques Tati originally Jacques Tatischeff, is born in Le Pecq, France.

1920 (x) 2-year-old Wolfchild Amala and 8-year-old Kamala are found in Midnapore, India.
They had been nurtured and raised by a wolf family.

1926 (+) Murderess Ruth Neilson Ellis is born in Rhyl, Wales, United Kingdom.

1934 (-) King of Yugoslavia, Alexander I and French Minister Louis Barthov are shot dead by Vlada Cheenozamsky in Marseille, France.
Cheenozamsky is shot dead by the police afterwards.

1939 (+) Actress Kitty Ting Hao aka Little Darling, is born in Macao, China.

1940 (+) Beatle John Winston Lennon is born in Liverpool, Oxford Street Maternity, United Kingdom.

1947 (x) 18-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is convicted for auto theft in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

1948 (+) Musician Jackson Clyde Browne is born in Heidelberg, Germany.

1958 (-) 260th Pope Pius XII dies at the age of 82 in Castelgandolfo, Latium, Italy.

1958 (+) Murderer Ronald W. Frye is born in North Carolina, USA.

1960 (+) Double murderer Harvey Lee Green is born in North Carolina, USA.

1961 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for arson in Anamosa State Reformatory, Iowa, USA.

1967 (-) Revolutionary leader Ernesto De La Serna aka Che Guevara, is shot dead by the Bolivian army at the age of 39 in La Higuera, Bolivia.

1975 (+) Musician and son of Beatle John and Yoko Ono, Sean Taro Ono Lennon is born in New York, New York, USA.

1978 (-) Musician and actor Jacques Romain Georges Brel dies of lung cancer at the age of 49 in Paris, Bobigny, France.

1980 (x) 51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Richard Clark for sodomizing a 17-year-old boy in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

1980 (-) Unidentified girl is assaulted by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 18 in France.
She survived.

1984 (-) Suzanne Foucault is strangled by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, in Paris 18th, 19 rue Nicolet, France.

1985 (-) World famous filatelist and forger Robert Haisman commits suicide by a shot through the head.
He also killed his wife.

1986 (x) Over 200 Die in overloaded ferry capsizing in Kajla River, Bangladesh.

1988 (-) Scientist and engineer Felix Heinrich Wankel dies at the age of 86 in Lindau, Austria.

1993 (x) Over 250 Die in Soehae ferry shipwreck in Puan, Korea.

2002 (-) Serial Killer Aileen Carol Wuornos originally Aileen Carol Pittman and using various aliases, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Florida, USA.
"Thanks a lot, society, for railroading my ass."