Monday, September 30, 2013

125 Years Ago She Was His Double Bill

152 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 September 1861
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Chewing gum industrialist William Jr. Wrigley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

131 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 September 1882
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Physicist Johannes Hans Wilhelm Geiger is born in Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany.

125 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 September 1888
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Serial Killer Jack the Ripper sends a postcard to the Central News Agency in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

125 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 September 1888
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Elisabeth Stride-Gustaafsdochter aka Long Liz, is killed by throatcutting as fourth victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 44 in London, Berner Street, London City of, United Kingdom.

125 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 September 1888
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Catherine Eddowes is killed by throatcutting and severly mutilated as fifth victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 44 in London, Mitre Square, London City of, United Kingdom.

111 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 September 1902
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Inauguration of the Pentonville Prison scaffold, to be the ‘finest scaffold in the world’ according to British Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

104 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 September 1909
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Ernst Ehrenberg is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 September 1921
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War-hero and homosexual wife-murderer Carl Otto Wanderer is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
He 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."

90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 September 1923
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Richard Gräf is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 September 1924
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Writer Truman Capote originally Truman Streckfus Persons, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

82 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 September 1931
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Actress Angie Dickinson originally Angeline Brown, is born in Kulm, North Dakota, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 September 1932
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Serial Killer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster, dies at the age of 72 in Boston, Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Massachusetts, United States.

78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 September 1935
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Musician Johnny Mathis is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 September 1947
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Musician Marc Bolan aka Tyrannosaurus Rex, is born in London, Hackney, London City of, United Kingdom.

58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 September 1955
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Actor James Byron Dean known from “Rebel Without a Cause”, dies in a head-on car crash with his Porsche Spyder at the age of 24 in Paso Robles, California, United States.

51 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 September 1962
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Beauty Queen Hajna De Kaplany dies after 33 days of agony after her husband Geza soaked her with nitric acid at the age of 25 in San Francisco, St. Francis Memorial Hospital, California, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 September 1966
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61-year-old Nazi-architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer and Baldur von Schirach are released from Spandau Prison, Rudolf Hess becomes the last imprisoned Nazi in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 September 1978
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Mary Vincent is raped, killed and hacked to bits by Larry Singleton at the age of 15 in Berkeley, California, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 September 1984
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Chanel Williams is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 18 in Tampa, the Strip, Florida, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 September 1985
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Actress Simone Signoret dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Auteuil-Anthouillet, France.

28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 September 1985
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Seismologist Charles Francis Richter dies at the age of 85 in California, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 September 1997
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Murderer Johnny Cocrum is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

100 Years Ago He Came to Town to Disappear

1778 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 September 235
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Pope Pontianus dies due to maltreatment in the Sardinian mines in Tavolara Island, Italy.

495 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1518
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Artist Tintoretto originally Jacopo Comin aka Il Furioso, is born in Venice, Italy.

466 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1547
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Writer Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes is born in Alcala de Henares, Spain.

442 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 1571
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Artist Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio is born in Milano, Milano, Italy.

255 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1758
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Admiral Horatio Nelson is born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England.

159 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1854
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Annie Palmer-Brooks is poisoned by William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the United Kingdom.

123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1890
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Olympe Buisson is killed as first victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 9 in France.

118 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1895
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Pierre Massot-Pelet is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 15 in France.

111 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1902
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Writer Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola dies of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide fumes at the age of 62 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1912
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Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni is born in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy.

101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1912
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Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, is born in Mundthofen, Prussia, Germany.

100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1913
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Scientist and engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 55 in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 1920
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Actor Peter Arne originally Peter Arne Albrecht, is born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1922
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Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1929
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Ida Reuter is bludgeoned to death and raped by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 40 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

82 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 September 1931
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Actress Anita Ekberg is born in Malmo, Sweden.

78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1935
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Musician Jerry Lee Lewis is born in Ferriday, Louisiana, United States.

74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1939
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Poland capitulates to Nazi-Germany .

72 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1941
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Serial Killer Frederick Walter Stephen West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, is born in Much Marcle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 1943
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Union leader and first free-elected president of Poland Lech Walesa is born in Poland.

56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1957
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250 Die in train collision in Montgomery, Pakistan.

52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1961
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35-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for possession of narcotics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 September 1967
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Fifteenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeremiah Weinberger is born in Puerto Rico.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1969
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23-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested for ‘going equipped for theft’, carrying a hammer in Bradford, Mannington Area, United Kingdom.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1969
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Michael De Gruchy is battered to death by The Geoffrey Hammond Gang at the age of 29 in Wimbledon, United Kingdom.

43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 September 1970
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Between 9.48 hrs and 9.58 hrs, the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, robs the Berliner Bank at Rheinstrasse of 154.182,50 marks, the Sparkasse at Südwestkorso of 55.152 marks and the Sparkasse at Altonaer Strasse of 8.115 marks in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
In the Altonaer Strasse Ulrike Meinhof forgets a box with 97.000 marks.

43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 September 1970
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Lawyer and Rote Armee Fraktion founding member Horst Mahler is arrested in Berlin, Knesebeckstrasse 89, Berlin, Germany.
Three more RAF members are arrested the same night.

39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1974
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Ann Dawson is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 September 1974
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Donna Braun is presumably strangled as forty-sixth victim by Zodiac at the age of 14 in Monterey, California, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 September 1979
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Ex-dictator Francisco Macias Nguema is executed in Equatorial Guinea.

34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 September 1979
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Anarchy!" in Bergen-op-Zoom, Galerie Valckesteyn, Netherlands.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 1982
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First Chicago Tylenol murder victim Mary Kellerman dies after taking a capsule of Extra Strength Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide at the age of 12 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States.
In all seven people died by the unidentified poisoner.

16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 September 1997
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Artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in New York, New York, United States.

3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 September 2010
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Actor Tony Curtis originally Bernard Schwartz, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

60 Years Ago Even a Telescope Didn't Reveal His Burial Site

2465 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 September 551bc
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Philosopher Confucius aka Master Kung, is born in China.

163 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 September 1850
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Murderer Reuben A. Dunbar is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in New York, New York, United States.

125 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 September 1888
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Serial Killer Jack the Ripper writes a letter “Dear Boss” to the Central News Agency in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

122 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 September 1891
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Writer Herman Melville dies of cardiac dilation at the age of 72 in New York City, New York, United States.

118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 September 1895
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Scientist Louis Pasteur dies of uremic poisoning at the age of 72 in Marnes-la Coquette, France.

115 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 September 1898
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Nazi-doctor and mass-sterilizer Carl Clauberg is born in Wupperhof, Germany.

101 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 September 1912
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Over 1000 Die in Kecher Maru shipwreck in Japan.

98 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 September 1915
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American Communist and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg originally Ethel Greenglass, is born in New York, New York, United States.

89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 September 1924
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Actor Marcello Mastroianni is born in Fotana Liri near Rome, Roma, Italy.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 September 1934
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Actress and animal-activist Brigitte Bardot originally Camille Javal, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

61 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 September 1952
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Actress Sylvia Kristel aka Emmanuelle, is born in Utrecht, Netherlands.

60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 September 1953
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Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble dies of cerebral trombosis at the age of 63 in San Marino, California, United States.
There was no funeral and the whereabouts of his remains are unknown.

59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 September 1954
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137 Die in train derailment in Hyderabad, India.
It drove off a viaduct.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 September 1956
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Aviation pioneer William Edward Boeing dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Seattle, Washington, United States.

54 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 September 1959
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Dorothy Rawlinson is raped and murdered by Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy, at the age of 29 in Southlands Beach, Bermudas.

49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 September 1964
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Mass Murderer William Graulin kills his wife and his six children in Troy, Michigan, United States.

49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 September 1964
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Actor and filmmaker Harpo Arthur Adolph Marx dies of heart failure at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 September 1966
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Writer André Breton aka The Father of Surrealism, dies at the age of 70 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 September 1967
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Murderer of Rasputin, Prince FelixJoessoppov dies at the age of 81 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 September 1970
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President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 September 1978
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263rd Pope John Paul I originally Albino Luciani, dies of myocardial infarction at the age of 65 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
He might have died from drinking poisoned coffee, only 33 days after his inauguration.

31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 September 1982
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Lutgarde Meeus is strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 28 in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.

24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 September 1989
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Dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos dies of kidney and liver ailments at the age of 72 in Honolulu, Hawaï, United States.

22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 September 1991
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Musician Miles Dewey III Davis dies of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 September 1992
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167 Die in Pakistan Airlines Airbus A-300 crash in Kathmandu, Nepal.

20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 September 1993
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Murderer Antonio Bonham is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 September 1994
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852 Die in Sweden-Estland MS Estonia Ferry capsizing in the Baltic Sea.

10 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 September 2003
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Filmmaker Elia Kazan originally Elias Kazanjoglou, dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in New York, New York, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 September 2007
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Reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 47 in Phoenix, North 21st street, Arizona, United States.

3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 September 2010
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Filmmaker Arthur Hiller Penn dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Friday, September 27, 2013

100 Years Ago He Shifted Towards a Cognitive Revolutionary Paradigm

423 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 September 1590
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228th Pope Urbanus VII originally Giovanni Battista Castagna, dies of malaria at the age of 69 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
He was the shortest reigning (13 days) Pope.

313 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 September 1700
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242nd Pope Innocentus XII originally Antonio Pignatelli, dies at the age of 85 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

159 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 September 1854
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300 Die in Arctic steamer shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean.

100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 September 1913
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Behavioral Therapist Albert Ellis is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 September 1917
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Artist Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas dies at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 September 1920
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Actor William Conrad originally William Cann aka Cannon, is born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 September 1920
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General Carlo Alberto Della Chiese Prefect of Palermo, is born in Saluzzo, Italy.

91 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 September 1922
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Filmmaker Arthur Hiller Penn is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 September 1927
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Police constable George William Gutteridge is shot dead and his eyes blown out by Frederick Browne and William Kennedy in Essex, United Kingdom.

80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 September 1933
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The World’s Youngest Mother Lina Medina is born in Ticrapo, Peru.

75 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 September 1938
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Artist Günter Brus the Viennese Actionist, is born in Ardning, Austria.

73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 September 1940
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Philosopher Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin commits suicide by morphine poisoning at the age of 48 in Port Bou, Spain.
A fierce critic of Nazism, he was on the run for the Gestapo.

71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 September 1942
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Musician Alvin Stardust originally Bernard William Jewry, is born in London, Muswell Hill, London City of, United Kingdom.

69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 September 1944
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The world’s most pulchritudinous evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson originally Aimée Elisabeth Kennedy aka Sister Aimée, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 54 in Oakland, California, United States.

61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 September 1952
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Karl Lehmann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.

52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 September 1961
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Poet Hilda Doolittle aka H. D., dies of the effects of a stroke at the age of 75 in Zurich, Klinik Hirslanden, Switzerland.

48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 September 1965
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Actress Clara Gordon Bow aka The It Girl, dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 September 1969
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Brian Hartnell is stabbed to death as fifth and sixth victims by Zodiac in Lake Berryessa, California, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 September 1974
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26-year-old Manson Family-member Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz, has a religious vision of Jesus in her cell and becomes a born-again christian in Frontera, California Institute for Women, California, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 September 1975
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3 FRAP and 2 ETA-members are executed by the firing-squad for the murders of 4 policemen in Spain.

33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 September 1980
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21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "This Week I Was Beaten Up - 1" and "Eternity Forever - 1" with The Simpletones in Den Bosch, Willem II Fabriek, Netherlands.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 September 1982
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Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is arrested in Berck, France.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 September 2000
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Murderer Rickey Nolen McGinn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

30 Years Ago She Didn't Live Another Thursday

832 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 1181
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Founder of the Franciscan Order, Saint Francis of Assisi is born in Assisi, Umbria, Italy.

222 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1791
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Artist Théodore Géricault is born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.

164 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1849
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Physiologist Iwan Petrowitsch Pawlow is born in Ryazan, Russia.

145 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 1868
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Scientist August Ferdinand Möbius dies at the age of 77 in Leipzig, Germany.
He died 10 years after discovering his famous 'Möbius Ring'.

125 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1888
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Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

124 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 September 1889
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Philosopher Martin Heidegger is born in Meskirch, Germany.

116 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 September 1897
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262nd Pope Paul VI originally Giovanni Battista Montini, is born in Brescia, Concesion, Italy.

115 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1898
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Composer George Gershwin is born in New York, New York, United States.

111 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 1902
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Clothing manufacturer Levi Löb Strauss dies at the age of 73 in San Francisco, California, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 September 1929
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Maria Rad is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 28 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 September 1937
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Black musician Bessie Smith bleeds to death in the street after a car-accident because a white ambulance-driver refuses to take her to a hospital at the age of 43 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States.

68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1945
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Composer Bela Viktor Janos Bartok dies of leukemia at the age of 64 in New York, New York, United States.

68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1945
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Musician Bryan Ferry is born in Washington, Sunderland, United Kingdom.

65 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 September 1948
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Actress Olivia Newton-John is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1951
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Mass-murderer Ronald Joseph Butch DeFeo Jr. aka The Amityville Horror Murderer, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

59 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 September 1954
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1172 Die in Toya Mary ferry shipwreck in Tsjugaru Strait,

43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 1970
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The Manson Family hide-out, Spahn Ranch, is burned to the ground, charring over 100.000 acres in Death Valley, California, United States.

43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 1970
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Donna Lass is presumably abducted and killed as 17th victim by Zodiac at the age of 25 in Stateline, Samara Hotel, Nevada, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 September 1974
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Over 200 Die in USSR destroyer fire in the Black Sea.

33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 1980
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12 die and 312 are wounded in a fascist bomb-attack in a beergarden during the Beer Festival in München, Bayern, Germany.

30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1983
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Musician Tino Constantino Rossi dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1983
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Mystery writer Muriel Davidson is murdered by Robert Thom in Santa Monica, California, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 September 1985
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James Ferris is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 20 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1988
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Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, in Orange County, West County Municipal Courts Building, California, United States.

25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1988
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Keison Sinthasomphone is drugged, and sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 13 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.
He survived.

23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1990
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Writer Alberto Pincherle Moravia aka Il Conformista, is found dead in his bathroom at the age of 82 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 1997
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234 Die in Garuda Airlines Airbus A-300 crash in Medan, Indonesia.

10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 2003
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Murderer Joseph Bates is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 2003
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234 Die in MV Joola Senegalese ferry capsizing in Gambia.

6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 2007
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A mistrial is declared in the case against 66-year-old Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, for the murder of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and B movie-actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles, California, United States.

5 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 2008
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Actor Paul Leonard Newman dies of lung cancer at the age of 83 in Westport, Connecticut, United States.

4 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 2009
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76-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, is arrested for a 2005 international arrest warrant for his 1977 sexual assault case in Zurich airport, Switzerland.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

110 Years Ago He Was Bound to be Highly Nervous, Thin and Restless

479 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 September 1534
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219th Pope Clementius VII originally Giulio di Giuliano de Medici, dies at the age of 56 in Rome, Italy.
Just a few days before his death he ordered Michelangelo to paint "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel.

181 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 September 1832
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Architect William Le Baron Jenney aka The Father of the American Skyscraper, is born in Fairhaven, Massachussets, USA.

116 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 September 1897
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Writer William Cuthbert Faulkner originally Falkner, is born in New Albany, Mississippi, USA.

111 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 September 1902
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Founder of the Protestant Truth Society John Kensit is lynched by a large crowd of catholics in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

110 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 September 1903
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Artist Mark Rothko originally Marcus Rothkowitz, is born in Dvinsk-Daugavpilz, Latvia.

107 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 September 1906
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Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is born in Leningrad, Russia.

95 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 September 1918
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Friedel Rothe is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 September 1932
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Composer Glenn Herbert Gould is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 September 1944
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Actor Michael Douglas is born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 September 1951
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Murderer Steve Mitchell is executed by Old Sparky in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

61 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 September 1952
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Serial Killer Patrick David Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, is born in Middlesex, Park Royal Hospital, United Kingdom.

61 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 September 1952
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Actor Christopher D’Olier Reeve aka Superman, is born in New York, New York, USA.

60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 September 1953
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Brady Murphy is shot dead by John Johnson at the age of 35 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 September 1970
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Jeffrey Konen is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 18 in Houston, Yorktown, Texas, USA.

36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 September 1977
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John Mowery is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaine, Illinois, USA.

35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 September 1978
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150 Die in Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 Boeing 727-214 and Cessna 172 mid-air collision in San Diego, California, USA.
The site of the crash is immediately swarmed with looters who rob the bodies of all their valuables.

34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 September 1979
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20-year-old Mass-murderer Dirk De Winne is sentenced to 20 years hard labour in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 September 1982
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43-year-old Mass Murderer George Emil Banks kills 13 people in a shooting spree in Wilkes Barre and Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, USA.
Among the victims were five of his own children.

30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 September 1983
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Fourth King of Belgium Leopold III originally Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, dies of heart-insufficiency at the age of 81 in Brussels, St. Luc Hospital, Brabant, Belgium.

30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 September 1983
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In the largest prison escape in Great Britain 38 republican prisoners armed with handguns hijack a prison lorry and smash their way out in Belfast, Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.

29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 September 1984
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49-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is doused with paint thinner and set on fire by inmate Jan Holstrom in the hobby shop of the California Medical Facility in Vaccaville, California, USA.
He suffered burns over 18% of his body, mostly his head and hands.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 September 1987
(x)
Mass Murderer John Schnick shoots 7 members of his family to death in Elkland, Montana, USA.

22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 September 1991
(-)
Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, dies of blood-cancer at the age of 77 in Lyon, France.

22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 September 1991
(-)
Murderer Warren McCleskey is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 September 1997
(-)
Double Murderer Benjamin Stone is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 September 2002
(-)
Murderer Robert A. Buell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 September 2002
(-)
Murderer Calvin Eugene King is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 September 2012
(-)
Musician Andy Howard Andrew Williams aka The Moon RIver Singer, dies of bladder cancer at the age of 84 in Branson, Missouri, USA.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

20 Years Ago His Drive Screwed Up

472 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 September 1541
(-)
Alchemist Paracelsus originally Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, dies at the age of 47 in Salzburg, Austria.

288 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 September 1725
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Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness is born in Celbridge, Kildare, Ireland.

117 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 September 1896
(+)
Writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

111 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 September 1902
(+)
Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini is born in Khomein Isfahan, Persia, Iran.

102 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 September 1911
(+)
USSR-leader Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko is born in Bolshaya Tes, Russia.

101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 September 1912
(-)
Murderer Chester Danton Jordan is executed by Old Sparky in Massachussets, USA.

90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 September 1923
(-)
Paul Bronichewski is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Mordhaus Neue Straße, Germany.

77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 September 1936
(+)
Creator of The Muppets Jim Henson is born in Greenville, Missouri, USA.

68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 September 1945
(-)
Physicist Johannes Hans Wilhelm Geiger dies at the age of 63 in Potsdam, Germany.

39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 September 1974
(x)
47-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 September 1980
(-)
Upaehya Bandara is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 34 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
She survived

23 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 September 1990
(-)
David Thomas is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 23 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 September 1993
(-)
Nazi Punk Rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson dies in a car crash at the age of 36 in Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
There are rumours that State Security had sabotaged his car.

18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 September 1995
(-)
Spree Killer Eric Borel commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 16 in Sollies-Pont, France.
He first killed his mother, stepfather and brother with a hammer. Then he went to the neighbouring village of Cuers and shot 7 people with a .22 rifle.

14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 September 1999
(-)
Double murderer Harvey Lee Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 September 2001
(-)
Artist, activist and organisation pioneer Franz Ferdinand Feigl dies of cancer at the age of 43 in Amsterdam, Sint Lucas hospital, the Netherlands.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 September 2002
(-)
Double murderer Rex Warren Mays is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 September 2004
(-)
Writer Françoise Sagan originally Françoise Quoirez, dies of heart-failure at the age of 69 in Honfleur, Normandy, France.

4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 September 2009
(-)
Manson Family-member Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz, dies of brain cancer at the age of 61 in Chowchilla, Central California Women's facility, California, USA.

Monday, September 23, 2013

5 Years Ago Wumpscut Hated the Human Race

144 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 September 1869
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Cook and healthy Typhoid Fever carrier Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary, is born in New York, USA.

138 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 September 1875
(x)
15-year-old Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, is arrested for the first time in Silver City, USA.

106 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 September 1907
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Head of the SS in Rome Herbert Kappler is born in Stuttgart, Germany.

97 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 September 1916
(+)
Politician Aldo Moro is born in Maglie, Italy.

93 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 September 1920
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Actor Mickey Rooney originally Joe Yule, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 September 1930
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Musician Ray Charles originally Robinson aka Brother Ray, is born in Albany, Georgia, USA.

78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 September 1935
(-)
Edward Andrassy and an unidentified manis are found as first and second victim by The Mad Butcher of Cleveland at the age of 28 in Cleveland, Kingsbury Run, East 49th Street, Ohio, USA.

75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 September 1938
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Actress Romy Schneider originally Rose-Marie Magdalena Albach-Retty, is born in Germany.

75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 September 1938
(-)
Serial Killer Joe Joseph D. Ball aka The Alligator Man aka the Butcher of Elmendorf aka the Bluebeard of South Texas, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 42 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
He used to feed his victims to his pet-alligators.

74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 September 1939
(-)
Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud originally Sigismund Schlomo Freud, commits suicide by morphine poisoning at the age of 83 in London, United Kingdom.
He had been suffering from mouth cancer.

72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 September 1941
(+)
Black Panther George Lester Jackson aka Soledad Brother, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

70 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 September 1943
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Musician Julio José de la Cueva Iglesias is born in Madrid, Spain.

66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 September 1947
(+)
Catholic Priest Jerzy Popieluszko is born in Okopy, Poland.

64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 September 1949
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Musician Bruce Springsteen aka The Boss, is born in Freehold, New Jersey, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 September 1958
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Mass-murderer Harry William Frederick De La Roche jr. is born in Montvale, New Jersey, USA.

54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 September 1959
(-)
Murderer John E. Day is executed by hanging at the age of 0 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.

45 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 September 1968
(-)
Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, dies at the age of 81 in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.

43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 September 1970
(-)
Actor André Bourvil originally Robert Raimbourg, dies of cancer at the age of 53 in Paris, France.

42 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 September 1971
(x)
21-year-old Mario Roymans aka Tijl Van Limburg, steals Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Loveletter’ and claims a ransom to give to Bengal Refugees in Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brabant, Belgium.

40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 September 1973
(-)
Poet Pablo Neruda originally Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, dies at the age of 69 in Santiago de Chile, Chili.

37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 September 1976
(x)
Start of the second trial against 39-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in New Jersey, USA.

31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 September 1982
(-)
Leon Guichard is raped by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 20 in Venaray-les-Laumes, France.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 September 1983
(x)
112 Die in Gulf Air Flight 771 Boeing 737-2P6 terrorist bombing in Mina Jebel Ali, Dubai.
The bomb was apparently planted by the Abu Nidal organization.

28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 September 1985
(x)
31-year-old Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long aka Bound to Die, is sentenced to life without parole for 25 years in Hillsborough County, Florida, USA.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 September 1987
(-)
Filmmaker Bob Robert Louis Fosse dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 September 1994
(-)
Writer Robert Albert Bloch aka Psycho, dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 September 1997
(-)
Magali Sirotti is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, at the age of 19 in Paris, France.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 September 1997
(-)
Murderer Jessel Turner is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 September 1998
(-)
Murderer Kenneth Stewart is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.

15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 September 1998
(-)
Murderer David Castillo is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 September 2008
(-)
Mass murderer Matti Juhani Saari commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 22 in Kauhajoki, Finland.
He killed 10 people at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences. Saari left behind two handwritten notes in his school dormitory stating that his motive for the shooting was: "I hate the human race".

3 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 September 2010
(-)
Double murderess Teresa Lewis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Jarratt, Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, USA.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

55 Years Ago She Was Touched by the Bad Reputation to Love Rock'n'Roll

498 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 September 1515
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Fourth wife of Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves is born in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

321 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 September 1692
(x) Mary Esty, Martha Cory, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Alice Parker, Wilmot Redd
, and Margaret Scott are executed on accusation of witchcraft in Salem, Oregon, USA.

239 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 September 1774
(-)
249th Pope Clementius XIV originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.

237 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 September 1776
(-)
America’s first spy Nathan Hale is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

222 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 September 1791
(+)
Physicist Michael Faraday is born in London, Surrey, United Kingdom.

178 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 September 1835
(x)
26-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe secretly marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

128 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 September 1885
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Actor and filmmaker Erich Oswald von Stroheim aka The Man You Love to Hate, is born in Vienna, Austria.

110 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 September 1903
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Chief informer against the Cosa Nostra Joseph ‘Joe Cargo’ Valachi aka Charles Chanbano aka Anthony Sorge, is born in Harlem, New York, USA.

110 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 September 1903
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinrich Koch is born in Hannover, Germany.

107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 September 1906
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KZ-Commander-wife and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch originally Ilse Kohler Schnitzel aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe, is born in Dresden, Germany.

99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 September 1914
(x)
49-year-old Artist Camille Claudel is admitted to the Asile de Montdevergues. in Montfavet, France.
She spent the last 30 years of her life there.

89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 September 1924
(x)
26-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 3 and 6 months imprisonment for larceny in London, United Kingdom.

86 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 September 1927
(-)
Composer Giannotto Bastianelli commits suicide at the age of 44 in Tunis, Tunisia.

79 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 September 1934
(x)
265 Die in coal-mine explosion in Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom.

74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 September 1939
(-)
Murderer Frank Connor is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 September 1948
(x)
135 Die in chemical warehouse explosion in Hong Kong.

64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 September 1949
(x)
44-year-old Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, has his life sentence commuted to 85 years in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 September 1957
(-)
Singer and Actress Zhou Xuan originally Su Pu aka Beautiful Jade, dies of encephalitis following a nervous breakdown at the age of 39 in a mental asylum in Shanghai, China.

55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 September 1958
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Musician Joan Jett originally Joan Marie Larkin, is born in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, USA.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 September 1975
(x)
62-year-old 38th president of the USA Gerald Rudolph Ford is attacked by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, California, USA.

36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 September 1977
(x)
25-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is arrested in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
In the shootout policeman Arie Kranenburg is shot dead.

29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 September 1984
(x)
55-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of Michelle Steel in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 September 1984
(x)
25-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "La Chute des Anges Rebelles" in Brussels, 1693 Waversesteenweg, Brabant, Belgium.

24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 September 1989
(-)
Composer Irving Berlin originally Israel Isidore Baline, dies at the age of 101 in New York, New York, USA.

21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 September 1992
(-)
Triple Murderer James Demouchette is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

18 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 September 1995
(-)
Double murderer Philip Ingle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 September 1998
(-)
Lanett White is found murdered by Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer, at the age of 25 in Lodi, California, USA.

6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 September 2007
(-)
Actor Marcel Marceau dies at the age of 84 in Cahors, France.

6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 September 2007
(x)
48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Macht Kaputt was Euch Kaputt Macht" in Hasselt, Z33, Limburg, Belgium.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

66 Years Ago His Dad Went to Buy a Pack of Cigarettes

181 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 September 1832
(-)
Writer Walter Scott dies of anemia at the age of 61 in Abbotsford, United Kingdom.
As a result his brain shriveled up.

153 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 September 1860
(-)
Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer dies of heart failure at the age of 72 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

147 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 September 1866
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Writer Herbert George Wells is born in London, Bromley, United Kingdom.

92 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 September 1921
(-)
Wolfchild Amala dies of a kidney infection at the age of 3 in Midnapore, India.

92 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 September 1921
(x)
Over 600 Die in ammonium nitrate explosion in Oppau, BASF plant, Germany.

82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 September 1931
(+)
Actor Larry Hagman aka JR Ewing, is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 September 1934
(+)
Musician Leonard Norman Cohen is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 September 1947
(+)
Mass Murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 September 1947
(+)
Writer Stephen King is born in Portland, Maine, USA.

61 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 September 1952
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Cellules Communistes Combattantes leader Pierre Carette is born in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

61 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 September 1952
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Demonic possessed Anneliese Michel is born in Klingenberg, Bavaria, Germany.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 September 1956
(x)
121 Die in train collision in Secunderbad, India.

51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 September 1962
(x)
27-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof gives birth to twins Regine and Bettina by Cesarian after 6 months of pregnancy in Hamburg, Frauenklinik, Germany.
She had to give birth early due to complications of a brain tumour, four weeks later she would be operated.

39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 September 1974
(-)
An unidentified woman is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Sequin, Nevada, USA.

38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 September 1975
(-)
André Breugnot is drugged and drowned in a bathtub by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, at the age of 56 in Chiang Mai, Chiang Inn Hotel, Room 207, Thailand.

31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 September 1982
(-)
Irina Karabelnikowa is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 19 in Schachnaja-Kirpitschnaja, Russia.

14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 September 1999
(-)
Murderer Richard W. Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 September 2004
(-)
Murderer Andrew Perez Flores is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, September 20, 2013

95 Years Ago the Lady of Grace Gifted Him a Piercing

494 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 September 1519
(x)
39-year-old Explorer Ferdinand Magellan sets sail in the first attempt to circumnavigate the earth in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Andalusia, Spain.

191 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 September 1822
(+)
Inventor of the typewriter Peter Mitterhofer is born in Partschins, Tirol, Germany.

160 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 September 1853
(+)
5th King of Thailand Rama V originally Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua aka Chulalongkorn the Great, is born in Bangkok, Thailand.

154 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 September 1859
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Writer Cyriel Cyrillus Gustave Emile Buysse is born in Nevele, Belgium.

150 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1863
(-)
Philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm dies at the age of 78 in Berlin, Germany.

133 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 September 1880
(+)
Prostitute cum serial killer Louise Lofie Peete is born in Bienville, Louisiana, USA.

100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 September 1913
(x)
The first stone for 52-year-old Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, his Goetheaneum is laid in Dornach, Germany.

97 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 1916
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Enterpreneur and billionaire Rudolf August Oetker is born in Bielefeld, Germany.

95 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 September 1918
(x)
31-year-old Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, has his first occurence of stigmata while kneeling before a cross in the Church of the Lady of Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy.
This phenomenon continued for fifty years, until his death in 1968.

89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 September 1924
(x)
Germany decides to change its official writing from Gothic to Latin. .

88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1925
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8th King of Thailand Rama VIII originally Ananda Mahidol aka Phra Paramenthara Maha Ananda Mahidol Phra Athama Ramathibodinthra, is born in Heidelberg, Germany.

84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 September 1929
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Filmmaker Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, is born in Vienna, Austria.

81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 September 1932
(x)
63-year-old Indian Leader Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, starts hungerstriking in prison in Poona, India.

80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 1933
(-)
Theosophist Annie Wood Besant dies at the age of 86 in Adyar, Tamil Hadu, India.

80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 1933
(-)
Assassin of SA-Leader Horst Wessel, Albrecht Höhler is abducted and shot to pieces by an SA commando at the age of 35 in Berlin, Germany.

79 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 September 1934
(+)
Actress Sophia Loren originally Sophia Scicoloni, is born in Rome, Italy.

77 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1936
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Murderer Roger Bontemps is born in Aydoilles, France.

76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 September 1937
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Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, is born in Breslau, Poland.

73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 September 1940
(x)
The one and only concentration camp for Belgium is inaugurated by 37-year-old Commander of Breendonk-KZ Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt in Breendonk, Belgium.

73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 September 1940
(-)
Frau Lausche is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Karlshorst, Germany.
She survived.

71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1942
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Filmmaker Robbe De Hert is born in Farnborough, United Kingdom.

68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 September 1945
(-)
Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer William Buehler Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York, commits suicide by drug-overdose at the age of 61 in Rhinebeck, New York, USA.

68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 September 1945
(-)
Chief Nazi Doctor at Auschwitz KZ Eduard Wirths commits suicide by hanging at the age of 41 in Staumühle, Germany.

67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 September 1946
(x)
The first Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, France.

66 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 September 1947
(x)
22-year-old Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, marries Beryl Suzanna Thornley in London, Kensington Registry Office, United Kingdom.

65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 September 1948
(-)
Ravensbrück KZ guard Emma Anna Maria Zimmer originally Mezel, is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Hameln, Germany.
She was known for her extreme sadistic behaviour.

62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 September 1951
(x)
Rhesus monkey Yorick aka Albert VI, and 11 mouse crewmates are recovered from a Aerobee missile flight in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, USA.
He was the first animal to survive a space flight, but died 2 hours later.

59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 September 1954
(x)
32-year-old Serial Killer Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Mainz, Germany.

56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 September 1957
(-)
Composer Jean Johan Julius Christian Sibelius dies at the age of 91 in Jarvenpaa, Lappi, Finland.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 September 1958
(x)
29-year-old Black leader Dr. Martin Luther King jr., is stabbed in the upper left side of his chest with a letter opener by 42-year-old mentally disturbed Izola Ware Curry while signing copies of his book "Stride Toward Freedom" at Blumstein's Department Store in New York, Harlem, New York, USA.

54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1959
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Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, is born in Vilvoorde, Brabant, Belgium.

54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1959
(x)
43-year-old Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin makes his first cut-up in Paris, Beat Hotel, France.

54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1959
(x)
19-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, starts his travel to Russia when boarding the SS Marion Lykes in New Orleans, USA.
He first arrived in Le Havre, from there to London, then Helsinki where he got a 6-day-visa for the Soviet Union.

54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1959
(x)
43-year-old Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, breaks down on stage with internal bleedings in New York, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, USA.

52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 1961
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Consensual victim of Robert Frederick Glass, Sharon Rina Lopatka originally Sharon Denburg, is born in Hampstead, Maryland, USA.

49 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1964
(+)
Wong Kar-Wai star actress Maggie Man-Yuk Cheung is born in Hong Kong.

48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 September 1965
(x)
36-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for burglary in Maitland, Missouri, USA.

47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 September 1966
(x)
The US Surveyor 2 spacecraft is launched in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
Two days later it crashed onto the Moon surface near Copernicus Crater.

46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 1967
(x)
38-year-old Filmmaker Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, shoots his film "16/67:20. September" aka "the legendary eating, drinking, pissing, shitting film" with Viennese Actionist Günter Brus in Vienna, Austria.

43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 September 1970
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Bankrobber Larry Eugene Jr. Phillips is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 1972
(x)
30-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, has his death-sentence voided by the Supreme Court in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 1972
(x)
37-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof is transferred from Ossendorf Prison to Zweibrücken Prison to take part in an identification line-up in Zweibrücken, Germany.
Determined to ruin the process, she screams "Ich bin die Meinhof - mich sollt ihr identifizieren!" upon which the police instructs the 5 other women in the line-up to do the same.

40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 September 1973
(-)
Singer-songwriter Jim James Joseph Croce dies in a plane crash at the age of 30 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 September 1974
(-)
Thy Miller is killed by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 15 in Dalbo, Minnesota, USA.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 September 1977
(x) Andrew Dupay
, who delivered the mail to 24-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, commits suicide by blasting a shotgun through his head in Yonkers, Lincoln Terrace, New York, USA.
He told a friend “Sometimes a mailman learns things about the people on his route he’d be better off not knowing, and he sees things he’d be better off not seeing”.

34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 September 1979
(-)
8th President of Czechoslowakie Ludvik Svoboda dies at the age of 83 in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 September 1979
(x)
58-year-old Military Ruler Jean Bédel Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa his reign is overthrown in a military "Operation Barracuda" in Moyen-Congo.
It was France's 'last colonial expedition'.

24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 1989
(-)
Murderer James SK Paster aka Skip, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 September 1994
(-)
Double Murderer George Lott aka The Fort Worth Courthouse Gunman, is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 September 1999
(-)
First Lady Raisa Gorbachev originally Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko, dies of leukemia at the age of 67 in Munster University Hospital, Germany.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 2000
(-)
Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Moscow, USSR.
He was the second person to orbit the earth.

9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 September 2004
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School attacker Jia Qingyou injures 24 schoolchildren with a knife in No. 1 Experimental Primary School in Shandong, China.

8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 September 2005
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Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies at the age of 96 in Vienna, Austria.

8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 September 2005
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An inquest in the death of 51-year-old Schizophrenic artist Richard Sumner told that he had deliberately handcuffed himself to a tree and threw the keys out of reach in Clawddnewydd, Clocaenog Forest, Wales, United Kingdom.
He had disappeared two years earlier and his skeleton was found in april.

7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 September 2006
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47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Corner Push Re-Formance" in Antwerpen, Bastard Art Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

80 Years Ago He Was their Man for the United Network Command for Law Enforcement

208 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 September 1805
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Murderer Charles Cunningham is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in York, Pennsylvania, USA.

144 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 September 1869
(x) Hortense Kinck
and her 5 children are strangled and beaten to death by 20-year-old Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann in Paris, France.

132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 September 1881
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20th president of the USA James Abraham Garfield dies of wounds suffered in an attack by Charles Guiteau 3 months earlier at the age of 49 in New York, New York, USA.

122 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 September 1891
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Commander of the Kriegsmarine and successor of the Führer, Karl Donitz is born in Grünau, Germany.

111 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 September 1902
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115 Die in a stampede after a presumed church fire in Birmingham, Alaska, USA.

104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 September 1909
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Victim of Leopold & Loeb aka The Perfect Murderers, Bobby Franks is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

102 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 September 1911
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Writer Sir William Gerald Golding known for “Lord of the Flies”, is born in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 September 1912
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Nazi Doctor in Buchenwald and typhoid-expert Erwin Ding-Schuler is born in Bitterfeld, Germany.

84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 September 1929
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Sadist Murderess Gertrude Baniszewski aka Gertrude Wright aka Nadine van Fossan, is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 September 1933
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Actor David McCallum is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 September 1934
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34-year-old Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, is arrested and charged with the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr in New York, The Bronx, 222nd Street, New York, USA.

79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 September 1934
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Beatles manager Brian Samuel Epstein is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 September 1941
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Musician Cass ‘Mama’ Elliot originally Ellen Naomi Cohen, is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 September 1947
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Symbionese Liberation Army member Nancy Ling Perry aka Nancy Devote aka Lynn Ledworth aka Fahizah, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

65 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 September 1948
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Actor Jeremy Irons is born in Cowes, United Kingdom.

64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 September 1949
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Model Leslie Hornby aka Twiggy, is born in London, United Kingdom.

52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 September 1961
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Betty and Barney Hill are believed to be abducted for several hours by extraterrestials in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.
It was the first widely published UFO abduction case in the USA.

37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 September 1976
(x)
154 Die in Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 crash in Karatepe mountains, Turkey.

36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 September 1977
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14-year-old Serial Killer Christine Laverne Slaughter Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, is married in Blountstown, Florida, USA.

35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 September 1978
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Polish priest Rolf Gunther commits suicide by self-immolation in Falkenstein’s church, Germany.

32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 September 1981
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Over 300 Die in Sobral Santos capsizing in the Amazone River, Brazil.

27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 September 1986
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Murderer John William Rook is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 September 1987
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Debbie Davis is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 September 1989
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170 Die in UTA Flight 772 McDonnel Douglas DC-10 crash in the Sahara.
The crash was due to a terrorist bomb explosion by a rebel Jihad group.

18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 September 1995
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Murderer Carl Jr. Johnson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 September 1999
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Murderer William P. Davis is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.