(-) Composer Frédéric François Chopin dies of tuberculosis at the age of 39 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
139 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 October 1874
(x) 44-year-old Photographer Eadweard James Muybridge shoots Major Harry Larkin through the heart because he was dating his wife Flora in San Francisco, California, United States.
"Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife."
124 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 October 1889
(+) Murderess Juanita Eithel Leta Spinelli aka The Duchess, is born in Kentucky, United States.
121 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 October 1892
(+) First commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke is born in Hudingen, Elsaa-Lothringen, Germany.
115 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 October 1898
(+) Writer Simon Vestdijk is born in Harlingen, Netherlands.
101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 October 1912
(+) 263rd Pope John Paul I originally Albino Luciani, is born in Canale d'Agordo, Italy.
98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 October 1915
(+) Playwright and author Arthur Asher Miller is born in New York, New York, United States.
95 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 October 1918
(+) Actress Rita Hayworth originally Marguerita Carmen Cansino, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
94 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 October 1919
(+) Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang is born in Hua County, Henan, China.
93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 October 1920
(+) Actor Montgomery ‘Monty’ Clift is born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 October 1930
(+) Writer Jimmy Breslin is born in Jamaica, New York, United States.
82 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 October 1931
(-) Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring, Carin Göring originally Carin Frelin von Fock, dies of heart failure at the age of 43 in Stockholm, Sweden.
80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 October 1933
(+) Dominican nun and musician Jeanine Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers aka Sœur Sourire aka The Singing Nun, is born in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
(+) Daredevil Evel Robert Craig Knievel is born in Butte, Montana, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 October 1967
(-) The Last Emperor of China Henry Puyi dies of kidney cancer and heart disease at the age of 61 in Beijing, China.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 October 1970
(-) Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte aka Minister of Unemployment and Assimilation, is found strangled in the booth of a car after being kidnapped 8 days earlier by the Front de Libération de Quebec at the age of 49 in Quebec, Canada.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 October 1972
(x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in Watertown, New York, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 October 1975
(-) Teresa Knowlton is drugged and drowned by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, in Pattaya Beach, Thailand.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 October 1977
(-) Yolanda Washington is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, in Los Angeles, Hollywood Freeway, California, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 October 1977
(-) Vida Menas is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 18 in Dolenja Vas, Yugoslavia.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 October 1977
(-) Russel Nelson is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 October 1977
(x) The Lufthansa Flight 181 "Landshut" Boeing is stormed by German GSG9 commandos in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Two hijackers are killed all hostages are rescued.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 October 1984
(x) Fifth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Gent, Christian Party Headquarters, East Flanders, Belgium.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 October 1984
(-) Writer and painter Henri Michaux dies at the age of 85 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 October 1990
(-) Murderer Wilbert Lee Evans is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
During the electrocution, blood spewed from Evens’ right side face, drenching his shirt with blood.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 October 1990
(-) Wadim Gromow is stabbed to death and his tongue bitten off by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Russia.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 October 1997
(x) A 15-year-old Unidentified boy is sentenced to indefinite detention at a juvenile prison in Kobe, Japan.
He was convicted of assaulting five children and murdering two.
No comments:
Post a Comment