Thursday, October 31, 2013

95 Years Ago He Was One of 20,000,000

308 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 October 1705
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249th Pope Clementius XIV originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, is born in Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna, Italy.

248 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1765
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Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

198 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 October 1815
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Farmer, mechanic and composer Daniel Belknap dies at the age of 44 in Massachusetts, United States.

150 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 October 1863
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Train robber Tom Thomas Edward Ketchum aka Black Jack Ketchum, is born in San Saba County, Texas, United States.

127 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1886
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Statesman Chang Kai-Shek is born in Xikou, China.

107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 October 1906
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Fritz Franke is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

100 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 October 1913
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Murderer Mike Spanos is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Oregon, United States.

100 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 October 1913
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Murderer Frank Seymour is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Oregon, United States.

95 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1918
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Artist Egon Schiele dies of Spanish flu at the age of 28 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1920
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Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1926
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Magician Harry Houdini dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 52 in Detroit, Grace Hospital, Room 401, Michigan, United States.
He was punched in the stomach several times by Joselyn Gordon Whitehead at his own request on 22 october 1926 which caused his appendicitis.

87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1926
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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.

84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1929
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Actor Bud Spencer originally Carlo Pedersoli, is born in Naples, Italy.

77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 October 1936
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Actor Michael Landon originally Eugene Maurice Orowitz, is born in Forest Hills, New York, United States.

75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 October 1938
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An unidentified woman dies as result of a cyclopropane explosion while undergoing breast surgery at the age of 44 in Lahey Clinic, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
The source of ignition was static electricity.

73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1940
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Musician and founder of The Beatles Eric Ronald Griffiths is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.

63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 October 1950
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Actor John Franklin Candy is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 October 1961
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Murderer Honor Robinson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1974
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Laura Aime is abducted and strangled by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 October 1981
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‘Orange Socks’ is strangled by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, in Oklahoma, United States.
She was found along the Interstate 35 and remains unidentified.

29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 October 1984
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President Indira Pridar Shini Gandhi shot dead by her Sikh body-guards Beant Singh and Sawant Singh at the age of 66 in New Delhi, India.

20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1993
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Filmmaker Frederico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1993
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Actor River Jude Phoenix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 23 in Hollywood, California, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1996
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99 Die in TAM Fokker crash in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1999
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217 Die in Egypt Air Flight 990 Boeing 767-366ER crash in Nantucket, the Atlantic Ocean.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

75 Years Ago the Worlds Appeared at War

278 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1735
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2nd president of the USA John Adams is born in Braintree, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.

156 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1857
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Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Edouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Poitou, France.

150 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1863
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Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, United States.

142 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 October 1871
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Poet Paul Ambroise Toussaint Jules Valéry is born in Sête, Hérault, France.

128 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1885
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Writer Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, United States.

103 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1910
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Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant dies due to depression and paranoia at the age of 85 in Heiden, Switzerland.

82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1931
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Cop Killer James E. Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1932
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Filmmaker Louis Malle is born in Thumeries, France.

76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 October 1937
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Filmmaker Claude Lelouche is born in France.

75 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1938
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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, United States.
It caused a nationwide panic.

72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 October 1941
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Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1966
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Cheri Bates is stabbed to death as first victim by Zodiac at the age of 18 in Riverside, RCC Library, California, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1966
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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.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 October 1968
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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, United States.
He choked to death on his own blood.

43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1970
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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, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 October 1975
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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.

36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1977
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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, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1977
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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, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 October 1979
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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."

32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1981
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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.

31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 October 1982
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Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 October 1984
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Murderer Thomas Barefoot is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 October 1985
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Mass Murderess Sylvia Segress kills 8 people in a shooting rage in Springfield, Pennsylvania, United States.

23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 October 1990
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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.

23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 October 1990
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Escape artist Joseph W. Burrus aka Amazing Joe, is crushed by a load of concrete in a "buried alive" magician's trick in San Francisco, California, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 October 1997
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Filmmaker Samuel Fuller dies at the age of 85 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

4 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 2009
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Philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss dies of a heart attack at the age of 100 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

50 Years Ago He Was Smart Enough to Think of a Better Use for His Pen

357 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 October 1656
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Astrologist Edmund Halley is born in London, Hackney, London City of, United Kingdom.

226 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 October 1787
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The opera "Don Giovanni" by 31-year-old Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premieres in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

116 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 October 1897
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Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels is born in Rheydt, Prussia, Germany.

112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 October 1901
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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, United States.

102 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 October 1911
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Publisher Joseph Pulitzer originally József Politzer, dies at the age of 64 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 October 1930
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Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 October 1932
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Artist R.B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj is born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 October 1932
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Murderess Velma M. Barfield is born in North Carolina, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 October 1947
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Actor Richard Dreyfuss is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

64 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 October 1949
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Occult Teacher George Ivanowitsch Gurdjieff dies at the age of 83 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, American Hospital, France.

56 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 October 1957
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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.

50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 October 1963
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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, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 October 1984
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240 Die in USSR transport plane crash in Kaboul, Afghanistan.

26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 October 1987
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Geneviève M. is attacked by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 85 in Paris 12th, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 October 1997
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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, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 October 1997
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James Loper is shot dead by Louis Peoples at the age of 29 in Stockton, Eight Mile Road near Interstate 5, California, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 October 2002
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Over 60 Die in ITC shopping center fire in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Over 100 people remain missing.

7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 October 2006
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97 Die in Aviation Development Company Flight 53 Boeing 737-2B7 crash in Abuja, Nigeria.
7 people survived.

Monday, October 28, 2013

110 Years Ago He Would Visit Brideshead

118 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 October 1895
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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, United States.

115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 October 1898
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28-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is sentenced to death for twelve murders in Ain, France.

112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 October 1901
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‘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.

110 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 October 1903
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Writer Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

104 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 October 1909
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Artist Francis Bacon is born in Dublin, Ireland.

58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 October 1955
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Software-tycoon Bill William Henry Gates is born in Seattle, Washington, United States.

46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 October 1967
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Actress Julia Roberts is born in Smyrna, Georgia, United States.

46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 October 1967
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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, London City of, United Kingdom.

37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 October 1976
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IRA-Leader Maire 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.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 October 1987
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Surrealist writer André Aimé René Masson dies at the age of 91 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 October 1997
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Multiple Murderer Kenneth Ray Ransom is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 October 1997
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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, United States.
Another 4-year-old son died in the hospital.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 October 1999
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Murderer Domingo Cantu is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 October 2007
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133-year-old 100 Die in hostel fire in St. Johns, Newfoundland.

5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 October 2008
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Murderer Michitoshi Kuma is executed by hanging at the age of 70 in Fukuoka, Japan.

5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 October 2008
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Murderer Masahiro Takashio is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Sendai, Japan.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

85 Years Ago His Blood Was Warm

547 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 October 1466
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Humanist Desiderius Roterodamus Erasmus originally Gerrit Gerritszoon, is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The exact year of birth is not known, it could also be 1469.

285 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1728
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Explorer Captain James Cook is born in Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

231 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 October 1782
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Composer Niccolo Paganini is born in Genova, Italy.

155 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1858
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26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York, New York, United States.

140 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 October 1873
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Murderer Johan Alfred Andersson Ander is born in Ljustero, Sweden.

117 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 October 1896
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Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Eileen Haisman originally Brown, is born in Cape Colony, South Africa.

99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 October 1914
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Poet Dylan Marlais Thomas is born in Swansea, United Kingdom.

94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 October 1919
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Michele Pepitone is murdered as last known victim by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 October 1923
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Artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein is born in New York City, New York, United States.

90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 October 1923
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Heinz Brinkmann is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 13 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 October 1928
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Mass murderer Perry Edward Smith aka In Cold Blood, is born in Huntington, Nevada, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 October 1932
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Murderer Robert Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor, attends a surgical emergency room, having tried to cut off his penis in New York, New York, United States.

74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 October 1939
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Actor John Marwood Cleese is born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, United Kingdom.

59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1954
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Artist Michael Mike Kelley is born in Wayne, Michigan, United States.

55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 October 1958
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Luis Garavito is abducted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 28 in Tustin, California, United States.
In an ensuing fight, they are spotted by a highway patrolman, and Glatman is arrested.

49 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 October 1964
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An unidentified girl is raped and abused by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 October 1975
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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.

36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 October 1977
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Writer James Mallahan Cain dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 85 in Hyattsville, Maryland, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 October 1977
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The members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are buried in Stuttgart, Waldfriedhof Cemetary, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1982
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Olga Kuprina is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Kastachji Lagerja, Russia.

30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 October 1983
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44-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is arrested in his house in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 October 1989
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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, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 October 1996
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Victor Rossi is beaten to death as first victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 41 in Prairieville, Texas, United States.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1999
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Triple murderer Alberto Ignacio Ortiz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 57 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Saturday, October 26, 2013

111 Years Ago Kam Das Neue Leben

573 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 October 1440
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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.

328 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 October 1685
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Composer Domenico Giuseppe Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy.

202 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 October 1811
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Inventor Isaac Merritt Singer is born in Pittstown, New York, United States.

154 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 October 1859
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459 Die in Royal Charter shipwreck in Anglesey, North Wales, United Kingdom.

132 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 October 1881
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The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place in Tombstone, Arizona, United States.

111 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 October 1902
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Naturopath Alfred Dr. Vogel is born in Aesch, Switzerland.

102 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 October 1911
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Musician Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

97 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 October 1916
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President of France François Mitterand is born in Jarnac, France.

94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 October 1919
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Sjah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is born in Teheran, Iran.

88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 October 1925
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Writer Jan Wolkers is born in Oegstgeest, Netherlands.

72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 October 1941
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Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Holger Meins is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 October 1942
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Actor Bob Hoskins is born in Suffolk, United Kingdom.

49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 October 1964
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Serial Killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Perth, Fremantle Prison, Australia.

49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 October 1964
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Mass Murderer Marc ‘Gamil Gharbi’ Lepine aka The Women-Hating Rambo, is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 October 1965
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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, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 October 1966
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Over 100 Die in shipwreck in the Kosi River, India.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 October 1972
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Aircraft pioneer Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorsky dies at the age of 83 in Easton, Connecticut, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 October 1979
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President Park Tsjoeng Hie is shot dead by KCIA-chief Kimjae Kioe at the age of 62 in Korea.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 October 1984
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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.

18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 October 1995
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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, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 October 2002
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Over 170 Die in Dubrovka Theatre siege in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
After three days of occupation by 40 Chechnen terrorists the building was stormed by the Spetsnaz brigade.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 October 2004
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Murderer Dominique Jerome Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

Friday, October 25, 2013

100 Years Ago Theology Made Room for Butchery

175 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 October 1838
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Composer Georges Alexandre César Leopold Bizet is born in Paris, 28 Rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

149 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 October 1864
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Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan, United States.

134 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 October 1879
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Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

132 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 October 1881
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Artist Pablo Nepumuceno Crispiniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso is born in Malaga, Spain.

119 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 October 1894
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Alice Pitezel is gassed in a trunk by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Toronto, 16 St. Vincent street, Canada.

100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 October 1913
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Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, is born in Bad Godesberg, Germany.

93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 October 1920
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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.

90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 October 1923
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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, Niedersachsen, Germany.

77 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 October 1936
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Serial Poisoner Arnfinn Nesset is born in Norway.

72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 October 1941
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Artist Robert Delaunay dies of cancer at the age of 56 in Montpellier, France.

70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 October 1943
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Murderer Ruffie Lundon is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 October 1957
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The Syndicate’s most ruthless killer, Albert Anastasia is shot dead while being shaved in New York, Sheraton Hotel, New York, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 October 1957
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Architect Henry Clemens Van De Velde dies at the age of 94 in Zürich, Switzerland.

48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 October 1965
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Teresa T. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 24 in Bedzin, Poland.

43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 October 1970
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Mary Bennallack is persumably killed by throatcutting as eighteenth victim by Zodiac in Sacramento, California, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 October 1973
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Athlete Abebe Bikila dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 41 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He won the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot.

33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 October 1980
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Maureen Lea is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
She survived.

20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 October 1993
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Actor Vincent Leonard Price dies of lung cancer at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 October 1997
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Robin Atkins is asphyxiated by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 29 in Springfield, off Spring Street, Massachusetts, United States.

9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 October 2004
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BBC Dj John Peel originally Kohn Robert Parker Ravelscroft, dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Cuzco, Peru.

8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 October 2005
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Multiple Murderer WIlliam James ‘Flip’ Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Lucasville, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Ohio, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 October 2006
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Triple murderer Gregory Summers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 October 2006
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Serial Killer Danny Harold Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Starke, Raiford Prison, Florida, United States.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

65 Years Ago Gab es Keine Lustige Witwe

476 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 October 1537
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Third wife of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour dies of puerperal fever at the age of 29 in Hampton Court, United Kingdom.

110 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 October 1903
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FBI-agent Melvin Horace Purvis is born in Illinois, United States.

98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 October 1915
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Designer Bob Kane aka The Father of Batman, is born in California, United States.

95 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 October 1918
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Hotelier César Ritz dies at the age of 68 in Küssnacht, Switzerland.

88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 October 1925
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Composer Luciano Berio is born in Oneglia, Liguria, Italy.

87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 October 1926
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52-year-old Magician Harry Houdini performs his last magic performance show in Detroit, Garrick Theatre, Michigan, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 October 1927
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Musician Gilbert Bécaud is born in Toulon, France.

84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 October 1929
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All the rich run around in panic because of the Wall Street Crash in New York, New York, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 October 1929
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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.

80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 October 1933
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Gangsters and murderous twins Reginald & Ronald Kray aka The Profession of Violence, are born in Hoxton, United Kingdom.

78 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 October 1935
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Gangster and bootlegger Arthur Flegenheimer aka Dutch Schulz, dies of peritonitis at the age of 33 in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
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 including William S. Burroughs.

74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 October 1939
(x)
34-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
She returned voluntarily, 6 days later after visiting her ill mother.

69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 October 1944
(-)
Automobile pioneer Louis Renault due to mistreatment in Fresnes Prison accused of collaboration at the age of 67 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 October 1945
(+) SPK
and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Hanna Elise Krabbe is born in Bad Bentheim, Germany.

65 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 October 1948
(-)
Composer Franz Ferenc Lehár dies at the age of 78 in Bad Ischi, Austria.

62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 October 1951
(+)
Rock fan Meredith Hunter is born in California, United States.

60 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 October 1953
(-)
Evelyn Hartley is presumably murdered by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, at the age of 15 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, United States.

60 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 October 1953
(x)
19-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, marries Gabriella E. Hermosillo in Reno, Nevada, United States.

58 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 October 1955
(+)
Double Murderer Jose Jesus Ceja is born in Arizona, United States.

55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 October 1958
(-)
Murderer Bart Caritativo is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 52 in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 October 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.

51 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 October 1962
(x)
37-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for obscenity in Hollywood, Troubadour Theatre, California, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 October 1963
(x)
137 Die in ferry capsizing in Yojoe, Han River, Korea.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 October 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, United States.

22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 October 1991
(-)
Star Trek creator Eugene “Gene” Wesley Roddenberry dies at the age of 70 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 October 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.

11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 October 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, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 October 2006
(-)
Cult Leader Jeffrey Lundgren is executed by lethal injection at the age of 56 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, United States.
His final meal was turkey, potatoes and gravy, a salad and pumpkin pie. "For my last words I'd like to profess my love for God, my family, my children and my beloved wife. ... I am because you are."

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

15 Years Ago She Wouldn't Pack Suitcases Anymore

120 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 October 1893
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Actor and filmmaker Gummo Milton Marx is born in New York, New York, United States.

103 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 October 1910
(-)
5th King of Thailand Rama V originally Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua aka Chulalongkorn the Great, dies at the age of 57 in Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.

92 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 October 1921
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Engineer and tyre-manufacterer John Boyd Dunlop dies at the age of 81 in Dublin, Ireland.

90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 October 1923
(x)
The first solo dance performance by 21-year-old Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl in München, Bayern, Germany.

88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 October 1925
(+)
TV-host Johnny Carson is born in Coming, Iowa, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 October 1927
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Artist Edward Kienholz is born in Fairfield, Washington, United States.

63 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 October 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, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 October 1957
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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.

52 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 October 1961
(-)
Murderer Arthur Schuck is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Pennsylvania, United States.

41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 October 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, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 October 1976
(-)
Carl Denaro is attacked by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, United States.
He survived.

31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 October 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, United States.

21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 October 1992
(-)
Double murderer John S. Gardner is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 October 1998
(-)
Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, dies at the age of 93 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 October 1998
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Patricia Tamez is murdered by Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer, at the age of 29 in Hesperia, California, United States.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

65 Years Ago She Squeaked

228 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 October 1785
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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, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

202 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 October 1811
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Composer Franz Ferenc Liszt is born in Raiding, Hungary.

169 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 October 1844
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Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

136 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 1877
(x)
207 Die in William Dixons pit 1 and 2 coal mine explosion in Blantyre, Scotland, United Kingdom.

134 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 October 1879
(x)
32-year-old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison tests the first incandescent light bulb in New Jersey, United States.
It burned 13 1/2 hours.

111 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 October 1902
(-)
Maud Marsh is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 October 1905
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Radio engineer and discoverer of cosmic radio sources Karl Guthe Jansky is born in Norman, Oklahoma, United States.

107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 1906
(-)
Artist Paul Cézanne dies of delirium influenza at the age of 67 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 1909
(-)
Murderer Mathew Janeigaj is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Oregon, United States.

100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 October 1913
(x)
263 Die in coal-mine explosion in Dawson, New Mexico, United States.

93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 1920
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Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary is born in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1925
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Artist Robert Milton Ernst Rauschenberg is born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States.

79 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 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, United States.

77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1936
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Founding member of the Black Panther Party Bobby Robert George Seale is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.

71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1942
(-)
Sex-murderer Ronald Fearn is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in Canon City, Colorado, United States.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 1943
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Actress Catherine Deneuve is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 1948
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Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.

64 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 October 1949
(x)
200 Die in train derailment in Nowy Dwor, Poland.

53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 October 1960
(x)
24-year-old Serial Killer Heinrich Pommerencke aka The Beast of the Black Forest, is convicted to life-imprisonment in Freiburg, Germany.

43 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 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.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 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.

36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 October 1977
(-)
Glen Parks is shot dead by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 47 in Bellmead, Texas, United States.

35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 October 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, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 1979
(x)
45-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, is arrested in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, United States.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 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, Tuscany, Italy.
Suzanna’s pubis had been removed.

26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1987
(-)
Actor Lino Angiolino Joseph Pascal Ventura dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Paris, St. Cloud, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 October 1995
(-)
Writer Kingsley William Amis dies at the age of 73 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 October 1996
(-)
Performance artist and political activist Kathy Change commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 46 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 October 1997
(-)
Murderer Alan Bannister is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Missouri, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 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, United States.

12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 2001
(-)
Murderer Gerald Lee Mitchell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 2007
(-)
Murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd is executed by lethal injection in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.
He was the 1000th person executed in the USA after the ban on capital punishment was lifted.

Monday, October 21, 2013

180 Years Ago He Was Bound to Blast

573 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 October 1440
(x)
36-year-old Serial Killer Gilles De Rais makes a full confession of his crimes in court in Nantes, France.

208 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 October 1805
(-)
Admiral Horatio Nelson is shot in the spine during the Battle of Trafalgar at the age of 47.

180 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 October 1833
(+)
Inventor of dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel aka The Merchant of Death, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

125 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 October 1888
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Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring, Carin Göring originally Carin Axelina Hulda “Freiin von Fock”, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

96 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 October 1917
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Musician Dizzy John Birks Gillespie is born in Cheraw, South Carolina, United States.

87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 October 1926
(-)
Mabel Fluke is raped and strangled as eighth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Portland, Oregon, United States.

87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 October 1926
(+)
Pilot Felix Moncia is born in United States.

83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 October 1930
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Murderer Richard L. Jordan is born in Arizona, United States.

67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 October 1946
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Musician Lux Interior originally Erick Lee Purkhiser, is born in Akron, Ohio, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 October 1966
(x)
116 children and 28 adults Die in coal-slag avalanche in Aberfan, United Kingdom.

44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 October 1969
(-)
Writer Jack Kerouac dies of a liver disease at the age of 47 in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, United States.

42 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 October 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, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 October 1980
(-)
Pediatrician Hans Asperger dies at the age of 74 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 October 1984
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Filmmaker François Roland Truffaut dies of a brain tumour at the age of 52 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 October 1985
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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, United States.

24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 October 1989
(x)
132 Die in Boeing 727 crash in Honduras.

24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 October 1989
(-)
Dorothy Keeler 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, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 October 1998
(-)
Musician Jim Shepard commits suicide at the age of 44 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 October 1999
(-)
Murderer Arthur Martin Boyd is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 October 2006
(-)
Writer John Symonds dies at the age of 92 in United Kingdom.
He was a close friend of Aleister Crowley.

6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 October 2007
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Artist R.B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj commits suicide by suffocation at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

45 Years Ago She Didn't Wear Pink

826 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1187
(-)
172nd Pope Urbanus III originally Uberto Crivelli, dies of grief in Ferrara, Italy.

159 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 October 1854
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Writer Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud is born in Charleville, France.

139 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1874
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Composer Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, United States.

133 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 October 1880
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Nazi-doctor and aeronautic experimentor Hans August Rascher is born in Fürstenfeldbruch, Germany.

131 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 October 1882
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Actor Bela Lugosi originally Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko, is born in Lugos, Hungary.

122 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1891
(-)
Matilda Clover is poisoned by Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, at the age of 27 in the United Kingdom.

119 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 October 1894
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Actress Olive Thomas originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy, is born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States.

103 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 October 1910
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Brinkmann is born in Clausthal, Germany.

87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 October 1926
(-)
Virginia Grant is strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 59 in Portland, Oregon, United States.

69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 October 1944
(x)
130 Die in liquid gas reservoir explosion in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 October 1946
(+)
Writer Elfriede Jelinek is born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria.

60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1953
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Musician Tom Thomas Earl Petty is born in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 October 1961
(x)
Over 500 Die in train derailment in Calcutta, India.

49 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1964
(-)
31st president of the USA Herbert Clark Hoover dies at the age of 90 in New York, New York, United States.

48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 October 1965
(-)
President of the United Industrial Worker’s Union John Kilpatrick is shot dead by Dana H. Nash in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

45 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 October 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.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 October 1973
(-)
Quita and Richard Hague are attacked by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 28 in San Francisco, Pennsylvania Avenue, California, United States.
Richard survived despite terrible machete-wounds.

32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1981
(x)
3 Die in Fascist bomb explosion in Jewish Diamond Centre, Antwerp, Belgium.
Over 100 people are wounded.

32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1981
(x)
Serial Killer Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for assaulting a hitchhiker in France.

32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1981
(-)
Danny Davis is abducted, tortured and murdered by Arthur Bishop at the age of 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 October 1985
(x)
Twentieth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes against the organisers of an anti-nuclear rally in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

19 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 October 1994
(-)
Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 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, United States.

9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 October 2004
(-)
Murderer Ricky Eugene Morrow is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 October 2005
(-)
Murder contractor Luis Ramirez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
He hired Edward Bell to kill the boyfriend of his ex-wife.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

70 Years Ago Elle a Marqué un Fléchissement Net Depuis les Restrictions Qui Touchent Durement les Psychopathes

268 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1745
(-)
Writer Jonathan Swift dies at the age of 77 in Dublin, Ireland.

155 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1858
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Wife-murderer Charles Chapin aka Sing Sing’s Rose Man, is born in New York, New York, United States.

151 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 October 1862
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Film pioneer Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas Lumière is born in Besançon, France.

131 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 October 1882
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Artist Umberto Boccioni is born in Reccio di Calabria, Italy.

120 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 October 1893
(-)
Abolitionist and Suffragette Lucy Stone dies of stomach cancer at the age of 75 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

116 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1897
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Inventor and ruthless industrialist George Mortimer Pullman known for the Pullman Sleeping Car, dies at the age of 66 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

104 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1909
(-)
Criminologist Cesare Ezechia Marco Lombroso dies at the age of 70 in Turin, Italy.

87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 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, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 October 1927
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Plotter of the assassination of president De Gaulle, Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry is born in Lunéville, France.

85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1928
(-)
Kidnapper and Murderer Edward Hickman is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.

82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1931
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Writer John le Carré originally David John Moore Cornwell, is born in Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom.

70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 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.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 October 1944
(+)
Murderer Ronald Clark O’Bryan aka The Pixy Stix Killer, is born in Pasadena, Texas, United States.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 October 1944
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Musician Peter Tosh originally Winston Hubert McIntosh aka Stepping Razor, is born in Kingston, Jamaïca.

68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1945
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Actor Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine, The Dirtiest Man in the World, is born in Towson, Maryland, United States.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1956
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Physician Carlo Urbani known for first identifying Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome aka SARS, is born in Castelplanio, Italy.

54 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 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.

49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1964
(-)
VietCong terrorist Nguyen Van Troi is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 17 in Saigon, Vietnam.

43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1970
(-)
Victor Ohta is shot dead by John Linley Frazier at the age of 47 in Santa Cruz, Soquel, California, United States.
In the same event also the Ohta children 11-year-old Taggart, 12-year-old Derrick and their nurse Dorothy Cadwallader are killed.

39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 October 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, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1976
(-)
Murderer Michaian Shobek is executed by hanging in Nassau, Bahamas.

33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 October 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.

30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 October 1983
(x)
4 skeletonised victims of 30-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, are found in Lake Village, Indiana, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 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.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1984
(x)
In a nation-wide ‘Mammouth’-operation the authorities try to track down members of the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Belgium.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 October 1985
(x)
Nineteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Namur, Military Promotion Centre, Namur, Belgium.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 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.

25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 October 1988
(x)
131 Die in Air India Boeing 737 crash in Ahmadabad, India.

15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1998
(-)
Serial Killer Fritz Honka dies at the age of 63 in Hamburg-Langenhorn, Krankenhaus Ochsenzoll, Germany.

6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 2007
(-)
Writer Jan Wolkers dies of erysipelas aka "holy Fire" at the age of 82 in Texel, Netherlands.

4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 2009
(-)
Spree Killer Howard Barton Unruh dies at the age of 88 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States.
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.

Friday, October 18, 2013

115 Years Ago Hatte Sie Nicht Drei Groschen

608 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1405
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210th Pope Pius II originally Enea Silvio Piccolomini, is born in Corsignano, Italy.

596 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 October 1417
(-)
205th Pope Gregorius XII originally Angelo Corrario, dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.

510 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 October 1503
(-)
215th Pope Pius III originally Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, dies of an ulcer in his leg at the age of 64 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
Some sources say he was poisoned.

236 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 October 1777
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Poet, dramatist and writer Heinrich Bernd Wilhelm von Kleist is born in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, Germany.

162 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 October 1851
(x)
The novel "Moby Dick" by 32-year-old Writer Herman Melville is first published as "The Whale" by Richard Bentley in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1898
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Actress Lotte Lenya originally Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 1920
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Musician and politician Melina Mercouri is born in Athens, Greece.

87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 1926
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Actor Klaus Kinski originally Nikolausz Gunther Nakszynski, is born in Zoppot, Poland.

87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 1926
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Musician Chuck Charles Edward Anderson Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1927
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Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is born in Bedzinie, Poland.

82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 October 1931
(-)
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison dies at the age of 84 in West Orange, New Jersey, United States.

74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 October 1939
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Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, is born in New Orleans, Old French Hospital, Louisiana, United States.

69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 October 1944
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Cop Killer Barry Peter Prudom is born in the United Kingdom.

66 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 October 1947
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Leader of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, Luc Jouret is born in Kikwit, Zaïre.

56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1957
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Mass Murderer James Dean Clark is born in Arizona, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1960
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Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is born in Belgium.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1960
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Murderer Jess James Gillies is born in Arizona, United States.

42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 1971
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67-year-old USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin is attacked by an unidentified demonstrator in Ottawa, Canadian Parliament, Canada.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1974
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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, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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President of the German Employers’ Association Hanns Martin Schleyer is executed after being held prisoner of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe RAF-commando Siegfried Hausner for 44 days at the age of 62 in Mulhouse, France.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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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, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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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, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
He was alive when guards found him in the morning but died in the hospital.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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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, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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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, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
She survived.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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Triple murderer Lamont Reese is born in Texas, United States.

35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 October 1978
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Assassin of Leon Trotsky, Ramón del Rio Hernández Mercader aka Jacques Mornard aka Frank Jacson, dies at the age of 64 in Havana, Cuba.

28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1985
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ANC-militant Benjamin Moloise is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in South Africa.

22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1991
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Murderer Michael McDougall is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.

22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1991
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Murderer G. W. Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 2004
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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.

8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 2005
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46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "2 Throatstuckers" with Hanggai throatsinger Yilichi in Beijing, 2Kolegas Bar, China.