(+) Philosopher and encyclopedist Denis Diderot is born in Langres, France.
222 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1791
(-) Statesman Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin dies of high fever at the age of 52 in Smolensk, Russia.
Supposedly he overate on a large goose.
184 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 October 1829
(+) 21st president of the USA Chester Alan Arthur is born in Fairfield, Vermont, United States.
165 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 October 1848
(+) Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is born in Alsace, France.
149 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1864
(+) Film pioneer Louis Jean Lumière is born in Besançon, France.
133 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 October 1880
(-) Composer Jacques Offenbach dies at the age of 61 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 October 1919
(+) Actor Donald Pleasance is born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 October 1930
(x) 48 Die in R 101 Airship crash in Beauvais, France.
It was Britain’s largest aircraft ever and this was it's maiden flight from England to India.
79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1934
(+) Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, is born in Rochester, New York, United States.
79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1934
(-) Filmmaker Jean Vigo dies of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 October 1936
(+) Writer and president Václav Havel is born in Prague, Czechoslowakia.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1945
(-) Evelyn Peterson is assaulted and beaten up by William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1949
(+) IRA-member Michael Gaughan originally Micheal O Gaibhtheachain, is born in Ballina, Ireland.
62 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1951
(+) Musician Bob Geldof is born in Dublin, Ireland.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1962
(-) Pedophile Walter Quicker commits suicide by hanging at the age of 34 in Walsum, Germany.
He was thought to be a child-murderer, 15 years later Joachim Kroll was to be found the real killer roaming around in Walsum and the Ruhr area.
44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 October 1969
(x) The Haymarket Police Statute is bombed by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
(-) Inventor Earl Silas Tupper dies at the age of 76 in Costa Rica.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1984
(-) Anna Barbier-Ponthus is tortured and strangled as first victim by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 9th, 10 rue Saulnier, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 October 1985
(x) 16-year-old Miss Hungary Csilla Andrea Molnar is crowned in Budapest, Hungary.
Less than a year later she committed suicide.
22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 October 1991
(x) 137 Die in military aircraft crash in Jakarta, Indonesia.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1994
(x) The 46-year-old Leader of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, Luc Jouret is found amongst 48 bodies of members of his church. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning or had been shot to death in Switzerland.
On the same day 5 bodies are also found in Montreal, Canada.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1994
(-) Murderer Walter Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 October 1998
(-) Murderer Roderick Abeyta is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in State Prison, Nevada, United States.
9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 October 2004
(-) Double murderer Edward Green III is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 2007
(x) 353 Die in fishing boat shipwreck in Indonesia.
The boat carried over 400 asylum seekers.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 2007
(x) 144 schoolchildren Die in coal tip landslide in Aberfan, Wales, United Kingdom.
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