(-) 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
(+) Composer Domenico Giuseppe Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy.
202 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 October 1811
(+) Inventor Isaac Merritt Singer is born in Pittstown, New York, United States.
154 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 October 1859
(x) 459 Die in Royal Charter shipwreck in Anglesey, North Wales, United Kingdom.
132 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 October 1881
(x) The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place in Tombstone, Arizona, United States.
(+) Naturopath Alfred Dr. Vogel is born in Aesch, Switzerland.
102 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 October 1911
(+) Musician Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
97 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 October 1916
(+) President of France François Mitterand is born in Jarnac, France.
94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 October 1919
(+) Sjah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is born in Teheran, Iran.
88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 October 1925
(+) Writer Jan Wolkers is born in Oegstgeest, Netherlands.
72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 October 1941
(+) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Holger Meins is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 October 1942
(+) Actor Bob Hoskins is born in Suffolk, United Kingdom.
49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 October 1964
(-) 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
(+) 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
(-) 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
(x) Over 100 Die in shipwreck in the Kosi River, India.
41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 October 1972
(-) Aircraft pioneer Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorsky dies at the age of 83 in Easton, Connecticut, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 October 1979
(-) 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
(-) 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
(x) 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
(x) 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
(-) Murderer Dominique Jerome Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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