(+) 2nd president of the USA John Adams is born in Braintree, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.
156 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1857
(+) Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Edouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Poitou, France.
150 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1863
(-) Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, United States.
142 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 October 1871
(+) Poet Paul Ambroise Toussaint Jules Valéry is born in Sête, Hérault, France.
128 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1885
(+) Writer Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, United States.
103 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1910
(-) Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant dies due to depression and paranoia at the age of 85 in Heiden, Switzerland.
82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1931
(-) Cop Killer James E. Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1932
(+) Filmmaker Louis Malle is born in Thumeries, France.
76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 October 1937
(+) Filmmaker Claude Lelouche is born in France.
(x) 23-year-old Actor and filmmaker George Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play "War of the Worlds" from the CBS studio in New York, 485 Madison Avenue, 20th floor, New York, United States.
It caused a nationwide panic.
72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 October 1941
(-) Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1966
(-) Cheri Bates is stabbed to death as first victim by Zodiac at the age of 18 in Riverside, RCC Library, California, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1966
(+) al-Qaeda Leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh aka the Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers, is born in Zarqa, Jordan.
45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 October 1968
(-) Actor Ramon Novarro originally José Ramon Gil Samaniego aka The Sheik, has his skull crushed by Paul and Thomas Ferguson at the age of 69 in Laurel, California, United States.
He choked to death on his own blood.
43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1970
(x) 26-year-old Musician Jim James Douglas Morrison is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and fined $500 for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami, Florida, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 October 1975
(-) Wilma McCann is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 26 in Leeds, Prince Philip Playing Fields, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1977
(-) Tina Williams is raped and shot dead by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 17 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 October 1977
(-) Judy Miller is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 15 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 October 1979
(-) Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Rambouillet, France.
His final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest, of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback."
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 1981
(-) Britta Schilling is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 October 1982
(-) Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 October 1984
(-) Murderer Thomas Barefoot is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 October 1985
(x) Mass Murderess Sylvia Segress kills 8 people in a shooting rage in Springfield, Pennsylvania, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 October 1990
(-) Wadim Tistschenko is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Schachty, Km1128 on the Kirpitschnaja-Sady road, Russia.
23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 October 1990
(-) Escape artist Joseph W. Burrus aka Amazing Joe, is crushed by a load of concrete in a "buried alive" magician's trick in San Francisco, California, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 October 1997
(-) Filmmaker Samuel Fuller dies at the age of 85 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
4 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 October 2009
(-) Philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss dies of a heart attack at the age of 100 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
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