29th year - N° 304 Friday, 31 October 2014

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29th year - N° 304 Friday, 31 October 2014

31 October / Today's 7 Events:

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(+) 108 years ago Wednesday 31st of October 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Fritz Franke is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 96 years ago Thursday 31st of October 1918 Artist Egon Schiele dies of Spanish flu at the age of 28 in Hietzinger Hauptstraße 114, Wien, Wien, Austria. Schiele's wife Edith died three days earlier in their house in Wattmanngasse 6.

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(+) 94 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1920 Photographer Helmut Newton, originally Helmut Neustädter is born in Innsbrucker Straße 24, Schöneberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 88 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1926 Illusionist, magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, originally Erik Weisz aka The Handcuff King dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 52 in Grace Hospital Room #401, Detroit, Michigan, United States. Eyewitnesses to an incident at Houdini's dressing room in the Princess Theatre in Montreal gave rise to speculation that Houdini's death was caused by McGill University student Joselyn Gordon Whitehead who delivered a surprise attack of multiple blows to Houdini's abdomen.

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(+) 60 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1954 Victim of Dennis Nilsen aka Killing for Company Graham Archibald Allen aka Puggy is born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 21 years ago Sunday 31st of October 1993 Film director Federico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in . Fellini had suffered a second stroke and fell into an irreversible coma a couple of months earlier.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 31st of October 2005 An uneventful pig tattoo session at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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29th year - N° 303 Thursday, 30 October 2014

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29th year - N° 303 Thursday, 30 October 2014

30 October / Today's 7 Events:

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(+) 157 years ago Friday 30th of October 1857 Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Édouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, Poitou-Charentes, France.

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(+) 48 years ago Sunday 30th of October 1966 Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh is born in Az-Zarqā, Muħāfazat az-Zarqā, Jordan.

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(-) 35 years ago Tuesday 30th of October 1979 Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Étang Rompu, Yvelines, Rambouillet, Île-de-France, France. His final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback."

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(-) 32 years ago Saturday 30th of October 1982 Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Joliet, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 29 years ago Wednesday 30th of October 1985 25-year-old Mass murderess Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist shoots 2-year-old Recife Cosmen, Earl Trout and Augustus Ferrara in a shooting spree because "My family makes me nervous" in Springfield Mall, 1250 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, Pennsylvania, United States. Seegrist also wounded seven people.

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(-) 24 years ago Tuesday 30th of October 1990 Escape artist Joseph Burrus aka Amazing Joe is crushed by a load of concrete in a 'buried alive' magician's trick at the age of 32 in Blackbeard's Family Fun Center, 4055 N Chestnut Diagonal, Fresno, California, United States. As trick-and-treaters watched in shock rescuers frantically dug Burrus out but were unable to reach him in time.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 30th of October 2005 Enjoying a tasty meal at the 'Happy Forest' village restaurant with Belgian cyclists Bavo and Sofie in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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29th year - N° 302 Wednesday, 29 October 2014

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29th year - N° 302 Wednesday, 29 October 2014

29 October / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 117 years ago Friday 29th of October 1897 Nazi leader and Reichspropagandaleiter Joseph Paul Goebbels is born in Rheydt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 84 years ago Wednesday 29th of October 1930 Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 82 years ago Saturday 29th of October 1932 Artist R. B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj is born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Saturday 29th of October 1932 Serial killer Velma Margie Barfield, originally Margie Velma Bullard is born in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 65 years ago Saturday 29th of October 1949 Occult teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff dies due to injuries suffered in a car crash in 1948 at the age of 83 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 57 years ago Tuesday 29th of October 1957 Luxury call girl Rosemarie Rosalie Marie Auguste Nitribitt is strangled and beaten to death by persons unknown at the age of 24 in Stiftstraße 36, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. Several prominent citizens were exposed as Nitribitt's personal acquaintances. When it became clear that the police would not be able to find the murderer it was insinuated in the media that high-ranking personalities were trying to thwart any attempts at solving the crime.

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(x) 51 years ago Tuesday 29th of October 1963 15-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer attempts to commit suicide by opening a vein with a pen in the City Jail in Santa Cruz, California, United States.

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(x) 48 years ago Saturday 29th of October 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 33 / Aktionskonzert für Al Hansen' in Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Grünangergasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 27 years ago Thursday 29th of October 1987 Geneviève M. is attacked by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in XIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 17 years ago Wednesday 29th of October 1997 Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey, originally Howard Stanton Levey dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 67 in St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States. LaVey was taken to St. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, because it was the closest available. For reasons open to speculation the time and date of his death was incorrectly (by two days) listed as the morning of Halloween on his death certificate.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 29th of October 2005 Gardenworks on Art Farm, since we had no heavy equipment on hand some back-to-basics techniques were necessary to move a couple of nasty boulders in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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(x) 8 years ago Sunday 29th of October 2006 97 die in Aviation Development Company Flight 53 Boeing 737-2B7 crash in Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. There were nine survivors.

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(x) 3 years ago Saturday 29th of October 2011 52-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Music for Excavations at 8213 West Summerdale Drive' in Cultuurcentrum, Minderbroedersgang 5, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium. A music performance with machines and voice.

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29th year - N° 301 Tuesday, 28 October 2014

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29th year - N° 301 Tuesday, 28 October 2014

28 October / Today's 7 Events:

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(x) 119 years ago Monday 28th of October 1895 Start of the trial against 34-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor for the murder of the Pitezel children in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Holmes gave various contradictory accounts of his life, claiming initially innocence and later that he was possessed by Satan.

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(x) 116 years ago Friday 28th of October 1898 29-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is sentenced to death in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France. Vacher was sentenced for the murder of Victor Portalier only.

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(+) 105 years ago Thursday 28th of October 1909 Artist Francis Bacon is born in 63 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(x) 60 years ago Thursday 28th of October 1954 Start of the trial against 54-year-old Murderess Styllou Pantopiou Christofi for murder of her 36-year-old daughter-in-law Hella Christofis, in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 27 years ago Wednesday 28th of October 1987 Surrealist artist André Aimé-René Masson dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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8 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 28th of October 2006 The one and only official band photo of Bum Collar depicting Mauro Pawlowski, Paul Mennes, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Danny Devos in Fundação De Serralves, Porto, Norte, Portugal.

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(-) 6 years ago Tuesday 28th of October 2008 Double murderer Michitoshi Kuma is executed by hanging at the age of 70 in Fukuoka Detention Center, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. Kuma was hanged for the kidnapping and murder of two 7-year-old girls on 20 February 1992 in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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29th year - N° 300 Monday, 27 October 2014

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29th year - N° 300 Monday, 27 October 2014

27 October / Today's 11 Events:

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(+) 232 years ago Sunday 27th of October 1782 Composer Niccolò Paganini is born in Genova, Liguria, United States.

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(+) 133 years ago Thursday 27th of October 1881 Victim of Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais Marie-Thérèse Marchadier aka La Belle Mytèse is born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.

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(-) 115 years ago Friday 27th of October 1899 Manfred Louis Masset is beaten and suffocated by murderess Louise Masset in Dalston Junction railway station, Hackney, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 95 years ago Monday 27th of October 1919 Mike Michele Pepitone is attacked by serial killer The Axeman of New Orleans in South Scott and Ulloa Streets, Mid-City, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Pepitone's head had been bashed 18 times with at least one weapon. He was rushed to Charity Hospital but within two hours he was pronounced dead. Pepitone was the twelfth and last known victim of The Axeman of New Orleans.

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(+) 91 years ago Saturday 27th of October 1923 Pop artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein is born in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 91 years ago Saturday 27th of October 1923 Heinz Brinkmann is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 86 years ago Saturday 27th of October 1928 Mass murderer Perry Edward Smith aka In Cold Blood is born in Huntington, Nevada, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Friday 27th of October 1939 Actor John Marwood Cleese is born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, United Kingdom.

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(x) 50 years ago Tuesday 27th of October 1964 An unidentified girl is raped and abused by 33-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 31 years ago Thursday 27th of October 1983 44-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter is arrested in Hansen's Bakery, Ninth and Ingra, Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Whilst Hansen was being interviewed a team of officers was searching his house. Behind wooden panelling in his trophy room police found items of cheap jewellery that was later traced back to the dead girls. Police also found a Ruger Mini-14 hunting rifle hidden under floorboards, which was later matched by ballistics as being the weapon that had killed Sherry Morrow and Paula Goulding. The most telling item found was an aviation map of the Anchorage region which was dotted with 20 drawn on asterisks. Two of these corresponded with site s where bodies had been found and a third indicated the spot where the body of 24-year-old prostitute Joanne Messina was found in July 1980.

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8 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 27th of October 2006 A statue of the dead Christ in Igreja do Carmo, Rua do Carmo, Porto, Norte, Portugal.

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29th year - N° 299 Sunday, 26 October 2014

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29th year - N° 299 Sunday, 26 October 2014

26 October / Today's 7 Events:

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(-) 574 years ago Monday 26th of October 1440 Baron, knight, companion-in-arms of Jeanne D'Arc and serial killer of children Gilles de Rais, originally Gilles de Montmorency-Laval aka Gilles de Retz is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Île de Biesse, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. de Rais' body and those of his accomplices Henriet and Poitou, also hanged, are thrown into the fire.

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(x) 116 years ago Wednesday 26th of October 1898 Start of the trial against 29-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France. Vacher entered the courtroom with "J'ai une balle dans la tête" written on a panel and shouting "Vive Jésus ! Vive Jeanne d'Arc".

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(+) 73 years ago Sunday 26th of October 1941 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Holger Klaus Meins is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(-) 50 years ago Monday 26th of October 1964 Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Fremantle Prison, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.

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(-) 49 years ago Tuesday 26th of October 1965 Sylvia Marie Likens dies of a brain hemorrhage, shock and malnutrition after multiple beatings, burnings and scalding baths by Gertrud Baniszewski at the age of 16 in 3850 East New York Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Baniszewski encouraged neighborhood children to torment Likens, including extinguishing cigarettes on her skin and forcing her to remove her clothes and insert a glass Coca-Cola bottle into her vagina on at least two occasions. Shortly before Likens died Baniszewski began to carve the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it!" into Likens' stomach with a heated needle.

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(-) 42 years ago Thursday 26th of October 1972 Aviation pioneer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Easton, Connecticut, United States.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 26th of October 2005 The Art Farm landlord posing proudly before its gate in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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