(-) 172nd Pope Urbanus III originally Uberto Crivelli, dies of grief in Ferrara, Italy.
159 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 October 1854
(+) Writer Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud is born in Charleville, France.
139 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1874
(+) Composer Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, United States.
133 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 October 1880
(+) Nazi-doctor and aeronautic experimentor Hans August Rascher is born in Fürstenfeldbruch, Germany.
131 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 October 1882
(+) Actor Bela Lugosi originally Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko, is born in Lugos, Hungary.
122 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1891
(-) Matilda Clover is poisoned by Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, at the age of 27 in the United Kingdom.
119 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 October 1894
(+) Actress Olive Thomas originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy, is born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States.
103 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 October 1910
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Brinkmann is born in Clausthal, Germany.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 October 1926
(-) Virginia Grant is strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 59 in Portland, Oregon, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 October 1944
(x) 130 Die in liquid gas reservoir explosion in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 October 1946
(+) Writer Elfriede Jelinek is born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria.
60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1953
(+) Musician Tom Thomas Earl Petty is born in Gainesville, Florida, United States.
52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 October 1961
(x) Over 500 Die in train derailment in Calcutta, India.
49 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1964
(-) 31st president of the USA Herbert Clark Hoover dies at the age of 90 in New York, New York, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 October 1965
(-) President of the United Industrial Worker’s Union John Kilpatrick is shot dead by Dana H. Nash in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
(x) 39-year-old First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy originally Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie, marries 62-year-old Billionaire Aristoteles Onassis in Skorpios, Greece.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 October 1973
(-) Quita and Richard Hague are attacked by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 28 in San Francisco, Pennsylvania Avenue, California, United States.
Richard survived despite terrible machete-wounds.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1981
(x) 3 Die in Fascist bomb explosion in Jewish Diamond Centre, Antwerp, Belgium.
Over 100 people are wounded.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1981
(x) Serial Killer Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for assaulting a hitchhiker in France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1981
(-) Danny Davis is abducted, tortured and murdered by Arthur Bishop at the age of 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 October 1985
(x) Twentieth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes against the organisers of an anti-nuclear rally in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.
19 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 October 1994
(-) Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 October 1998
(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Parker aka The Bedroom Basher, is convicted to death on six counts of first-degree murder in Santa Ana, California, United States.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 October 2004
(-) Murderer Ricky Eugene Morrow is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 October 2005
(-) Murder contractor Luis Ramirez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
He hired Edward Bell to kill the boyfriend of his ex-wife.
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