(x) Start of the trial against 35-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Philadelphia, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Pennsylvania, United States.
115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 October 1898
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is sentenced to death for twelve murders in Ain, France.
112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 October 1901
(-) ‘Brother’ of Lou Salomé and rival of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Ree commits suicide by jumping off a rock at the age of 51 in Celerina, Switzerland.
(+) Writer Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
104 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 October 1909
(+) Artist Francis Bacon is born in Dublin, Ireland.
58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 October 1955
(+) Software-tycoon Bill William Henry Gates is born in Seattle, Washington, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 October 1967
(+) Actress Julia Roberts is born in Smyrna, Georgia, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 October 1967
(-) Jack ‘The Hat’ McVitie is stabbed to death by Reggie Kray aka The Profession of Violence, at the age of 38 in London, Bethnal Green, London City of, United Kingdom.
37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 October 1976
(-) 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
(-) 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
(-) 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
(x) Distraught over debts, a failed marriage, and her latest lover leaving her, 33-year-old Mass murderess Susan Eubanks kills her 6-year-old, 7-year-old and 14-year-old sons with a shot through the head and tries to commit suicide by a gunblast to the abdomen in San Diego, California, United States.
Another 4-year-old son died in the hospital.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 October 1999
(-) Murderer Domingo Cantu is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 October 2007
(x) 133-year-old 100 Die in hostel fire in St. Johns, Newfoundland.
5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 October 2008
(-) Murderer Michitoshi Kuma is executed by hanging at the age of 70 in Fukuoka, Japan.
5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 October 2008
(-) Murderer Masahiro Takashio is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Sendai, Japan.
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