Saturday, September 14, 2013

115 Years Ago His Grandson Would Abuse His Invention

490 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 September 1523
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218th Pope Adrianus VI originally Adriaan Lorenszoon Boeyens, dies at the age of 64 in Rome, Italy.

298 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 September 1715
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Benedictine Monk Dom Pérignon dies at the age of 77 in Epernay, Abbey of Hautvilliers, France.

164 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 September 1849
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Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov is born in Ryazan, Russia.

115 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 September 1898
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Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs I dies at the age of 43 in Citronelle, Alabama, USA.

112 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 September 1901
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25th president of the USA William McKinley dies of coldfire due to gunshot wounds suffered in an attack by Polish anarchist Leon Czolgosz 8 days earlier at the age of 58 in Buffalo, New York, USA.

86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 September 1927
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Choreographer Isadora Angela Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance, dies in a car crash at the age of 49 in Nice, France.
Her long shawl got tangled in the wheel of the car she drove and she was strangled while driving into a collision.

81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 September 1932
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Assassin of the 13th President of France Paul Doumer, Paul Gorgoelov is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 37 in Paris, France.

62 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 September 1951
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IRA-member Joe McDonnel originally Seosamh Mac Domhnaill, is born in Belfast, Ireland.

46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 September 1967
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War leader Marshall Abdel Hakim Amer commits suicide by poisoning at the age of 47 in Egypt.
While imprisoned he was given the choice by high-renking officials between conviction and execution for treason of honourable death by suicide.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 September 1972
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Aiko Koo is strangled and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in San Francisco, California, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 September 1974
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Gwen Burton is assaulted and raped with a hammer by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 September 1974
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Stefania Pettini is shot dead and mutilated as third and fourth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 18 in Florence, Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy.

38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 September 1975
(x) Rembrandt
’s ‘Nightwatch’ is attacked by Arie Van Dijck with a knife in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.
Van Dijck commits suicide 6 months later.

31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 September 1982
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President of Lebanon Bachir Pierre Gemayel dies in a bomb attack at the age of 34 in Achrafieh, Kataeb Headquarters, Lebanon.
25 other people were also killed.

31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 September 1982
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Actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Patricia Kelly dies in a car crash at the age of 52 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Her daughter Stephanie, who supposedly was driving the Rover P6, is injured.

24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 September 1989
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Composer and musician Pérez Damaso Prado dies of a stroke at the age of 72 in Mexico City, Mexico.

15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 September 1998
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Start of the trial against 36-year-old Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng in Santa Ana, California, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 September 1999
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Murderer Willis Barnes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 September 2005
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Family murderess Frances Elaine Newton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
She shot her 32-year-old husband Adrian, her 7-year-old son Alton and her 21-month-old daughter Farrah.

4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 September 2009
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Actor Patrick Wayne Swayze dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 55 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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