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.

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