Sunday, October 6, 2013

20 Years Ago He Shot Himself into Thin Air

129 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 October 1884
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Cop Killer Thomas Henry Orrock is executed by hanging in United Kingdom.

126 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 October 1887
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Architect Charles Eduard Jeanneret Le Corbusier is born in Neuchatel, La Chaux de Fonde, Switzerland.

121 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 October 1892
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Poet Alfred Tennyson dies at the age of 83 in Westminster Abbey, England.

106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 October 1907
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Alfred Hogrefe is born in Lehrte, Germany.

100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 October 1913
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Artist Meret Oppenheim is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 October 1914
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Anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl is born in Larvik, Vestfold, Norway.

71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 October 1942
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Actress Britt Ekland is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

62 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 October 1951
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Industrialist Will Keith Kellogg dies of heart failure at the age of 91 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.

51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 October 1962
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37-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for possession of narcotics in Los Angeles, California, United States.

51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 October 1962
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Filmmaker Tod Charles Albert Browning dies of throat cancer at the age of 82 in Malibu, California, United States.

48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 October 1965
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Edward Evans is battered to death by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 17 in Manchester, United Kingdom.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 October 1972
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204 Die in train derailment in Saltillo, Mexico.

32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 October 1981
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President Anwar Al Sadat is shot dead during a military parade by a terrorist commando at the age of 62 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.
11 others died and 28 were wounded in the shooting.

26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 October 1987
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Over 100 boatpeople Die in ship explosion in Canal de la Mona, Puerto Rico.
Survivors who jumped off the ship because of a subsequent fire were eaten by sharks.

26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 October 1987
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Estera Epsztejn is attacked by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 76 in Paris 11th, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

25 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 October 1988
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Mass murderer Sulejman Talovi is born in Cerska, Bosnia Herzegovina.

24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 October 1989
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Actress Bette Davis dies of breast cancer at the age of 81 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 October 1993
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Adventurer Lawrence “Larry” Richard Walters aka The Lawn Chair Pilot, commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 44 in Angeles National Forest, California, United States.
He achieved dubious fame in 1982 when he piloted an aluminium lawn chair attached to 42 helium weather balloons, dubbed 'Inspiration I', 16.000 feet above from San Pedro to Long Beach.

9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 October 2004
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Murderer Peter J. Miniel is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 October 2005
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Cop Killer Ronald Ray Howard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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