(x) 41-year-old Explorer Christoffel Columbus lands on the Bahamas and calls it San Salvador.
141 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 October 1872
(+) Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison is born in Blackheath, United Kingdom.
128 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 October 1885
(+) Writer François Charles Mauriac is born in Bordeaux, France.
117 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 October 1896
(-) Composer Anton Bruckner dies at the age of 72 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 October 1921
(-) Black Wylie McNeely is lynched by burning for insulting a white woman in Leesburg, Texas, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 October 1925
(+) Writer Elmore Leonard is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 October 1925
(-) FBI-agent Edwin Shanahan is gunned down by Martin Durkin at the age of 31 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 October 1929
(-) Elisabeth Dorrier is bludgeoned to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 22 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
79 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 October 1934
(-) Tilda Blomqvist is killed in an arsoned housefire by Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor, in Västerfärnebo, Sweden.
73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 October 1940
(-) Ingeborg Gotz is attacked by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
She survived.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 October 1942
(+) Mass Murderer James Oliver Huberty aka Hunting Humans, is born in Canton, Ohio, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 October 1954
(+) Manager of ‘The Doors’ Daniel Danny Sugarman is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.
(-) Artist, writer and filmmaker Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Milly-la-Forêt, France.
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 October 1963
(-) Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, dies of internal bleeding at the age of 47 in France.
47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 October 1966
(-) Jolanta G. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 18 in Bedzin, Poland.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 October 1969
(-) Paul Stine is shot dead as eighth victim by Zodiac at the age of 29 in San Francisco, California, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 October 1976
(-) Monika Pfeiffer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 18 in Mainz, Germany.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 October 1979
(-) Yvonne Mysliniec is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Ilkley, United Kingdom.
She survived.
33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 October 1980
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi is born in al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 October 1985
(x) 26-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Lips of Osiris Ani" with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK at the Animal-Végétal exhibition in Brussels, Atelier 340, Brussels, Belgium.
15 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 October 1998
(x) Carmelite nun and martyr Edith Stein aka Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is canonized by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Roma, Italy.
She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
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