(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.
(+) Inventor of dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel aka The Merchant of Death, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.
125 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 October 1888
(+) 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
(+) 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
(+) Murderer Richard L. Jordan is born in Arizona, United States.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 October 1946
(+) 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
(-) 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
(-) 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
(-) Artist R.B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj commits suicide by suffocation at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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