(-) Artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn dies at the age of 63 in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
191 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 October 1822
(+) 19th president of the USA Rutherford Birchard Hayes is born in Delaware, Ohio, United States.
121 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 October 1892
(+) Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss is born in Texing, Austria.
118 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 October 1895
(+) Actor and filmmaker Buster Joseph Francis Keaton is born in Piqua, Kansas, United States.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 October 1904
(-) Sculptor of the Statue of Liberty Fréderic-Auguste Bartholdi aka Amilcar Hasenfratz, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 70 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
95 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 October 1918
(x) Over 100 Die in T.A.Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in Sayreville, New Jersey, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 October 1923
(+) Actor Charlton Heston originally John Charles Carter, is born in No Man’s Land, Evanston, Illinois, United States.
85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 October 1928
(+) Writer Alvin Toffler is born in New York City, New York, United States.
82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 October 1931
(+) Philosopher Richard McKay Rorty is born in New York, New York, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 October 1936
(+) Murderer James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer, is born in Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 October 1941
(+) Writer Anne Rice is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 October 1944
(+) Musician Patti LaBelle is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 October 1947
(-) Physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck dies at the age of 89 in Göttingen, Sachsen, Germany.
56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 October 1957
(x) The first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 is launched into an orbit around earth in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia.
52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 October 1961
(x) 36-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for obscenity in San Francisco, Jazz Workshop, California, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 October 1964
(x) 67-year-old 262nd Pope Paul VI originally Giovanni Battista Montini, arrives for the first US Papal visit ever in New York, New York, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 October 1965
(+) Serial Killer Henry Louis Wallace is born in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States.
45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 October 1968
(+) Serial Killer Beverly Allit is born in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 October 1970
(-) Musician Janis Lyn Joplin dies of a heroin and alcohol overdose at the age of 27 in Los Angeles, Landmark Motor Hotel, California, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 October 1976
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, presumably throws a molotov cocktail into the house of his neighbour, Sam Carr in New York, Yonkers, New York, United States.
(x) 36-year-old Musician Tammy Wynette originally Virginia Wynette Pugh aka the First Lady of Country Music, is supposedly kidnapped and terrorized by an unidentified masked man in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 October 1979
(-) Son-of-Sam Cult Leader Michael Vail Carr dies in a fatal crash into a lamppost in New York, Manhattan, West Side Highway, New York, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 October 1979
(x) Start of the trial against 46-year-old Serial Killer Joachim Georg ‘Jockel’ Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, in Duisburg, Schwurgericht, Saal 201, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He is charged with 8 murders and one attempt.
33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 October 1980
(-) Gestapo leader for Belgium Ernst Boje Ehlers commits suicide by hanging in Schleswig, Germany.
33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 October 1980
(-) Clemens Lichtenberg is killed with a rock by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 19 in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 October 1981
(x) The body of Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, is exhumed to determine wether he was a KGB-agent in Fort Worth, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 October 1982
(-) Composer Glenn Herbert Gould dies of a stroke at the age of 50 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 October 1983
(-) Derrick Hansen is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 18 in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 October 1994
(x) Sixth bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Klagenfurth, Austria.
Three mailbombs are intercepted.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 October 1995
(-) Murderer Harold Lane is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 October 1996
(-) Child murderer Larry Gene Bell is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 48 in South Carolina, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 October 1997
(x) 28-year-old First Western Female Suicide Bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam, marries Fouad in Brussel, Saint-Josse, Brabant, Belgium.
11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 October 2002
(-) Filmmaker André Delvaux dies at the age of 76 in Valencia, Spain.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 October 2007
(x) 439 Die in coal mine explosion in Senghenydd, United Kingdom.
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