(x) 45-year-old Writer and philosopher Donatien Alphonse François De Sade begins to write his ‘120 Days of Sodom’ on a paper roll of 11cm wide and 12m long, finishing it in just 37 days in Paris, Prison de la Bastille, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
202 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 October 1811
(+) Composer Franz Ferenc Liszt is born in Raiding, Hungary.
169 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 October 1844
(+) Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
136 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 1877
(x) 207 Die in William Dixons pit 1 and 2 coal mine explosion in Blantyre, Scotland, United Kingdom.
134 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 October 1879
(x) 32-year-old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison tests the first incandescent light bulb in New Jersey, United States.
It burned 13 1/2 hours.
111 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 October 1902
(-) Maud Marsh is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 October 1905
(+) Radio engineer and discoverer of cosmic radio sources Karl Guthe Jansky is born in Norman, Oklahoma, United States.
107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 1906
(-) Artist Paul Cézanne dies of delirium influenza at the age of 67 in Aix-en-Provence, France.
104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 1909
(-) Murderer Mathew Janeigaj is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Oregon, United States.
100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 October 1913
(x) 263 Die in coal-mine explosion in Dawson, New Mexico, United States.
93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 1920
(+) Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary is born in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1925
(+) Artist Robert Milton Ernst Rauschenberg is born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States.
79 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 1934
(-) Gangster Charles Arthur Floyd aka Pretty Boy, is shot dead by the FBI in a shoot-out at the age of 30 in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1936
(+) Founding member of the Black Panther Party Bobby Robert George Seale is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1942
(-) Sex-murderer Ronald Fearn is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in Canon City, Colorado, United States.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 1943
(+) Actress Catherine Deneuve is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
(+) Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.
64 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 October 1949
(x) 200 Die in train derailment in Nowy Dwor, Poland.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 October 1960
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Heinrich Pommerencke aka The Beast of the Black Forest, is convicted to life-imprisonment in Freiburg, Germany.
43 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1970
(x) 62-year-old Camp-commander Franz Stangl aka The Bully of Treblinka, is convicted for the murder of over 400.000 jews and sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 October 1971
(-) Polizeimeister Norbert Schmid is shot dead by Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Hamburg, Germany.
He is the first deadly victim of the terrorist movement.
36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 October 1977
(-) Glen Parks is shot dead by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 47 in Bellmead, Texas, United States.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 October 1978
(x) 21-year-old Sex Pistol Sid Vicious originally Simon John Ritchie, attempts to commit suicide by slashing his wrists in New York, New York, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 1979
(x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, is arrested in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1981
(-) Suzanna Cambi is shot dead and mutilated as seventh and eighth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 24 in Florence, Calenzano, Tuscany, Italy.
Suzanna’s pubis had been removed.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1987
(-) Actor Lino Angiolino Joseph Pascal Ventura dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Paris, St. Cloud, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 October 1995
(-) Writer Kingsley William Amis dies at the age of 73 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 October 1996
(-) Performance artist and political activist Kathy Change commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 46 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 October 1997
(-) Murderer Alan Bannister is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Missouri, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 October 1998
(-) Patricia Tamez is raped, beaten and a breast severed before being strangled by Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer, at the age of 29 in Victorville, California, United States.
12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 2001
(-) Murderer Gerald Lee Mitchell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 October 2007
(-) Murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd is executed by lethal injection in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.
He was the 1000th person executed in the USA after the ban on capital punishment was lifted.
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