29th year - N° 305 Saturday, 1 November 2014

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29th year - N° 305 Saturday, 1 November 2014

1 November / Today's 15 Events:

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(x) 410 years ago Monday 1st of November 1604 'The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice' by 40-year-old Poet and playwright William Shakespeare is performed for the first time in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On "Hallamas Day, being the first of Nouembar ... the Kings Maiesties plaiers" performed "A Play in the Banketinghouse at Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis." The work is attributed to "Shaxberd."

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(x) 403 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1611 The romantic comedy 'The Tempest' by 47-year-old Poet and playwright William Shakespeare is performed for the first time by the King's Men before James I and the English royal court in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 107 years ago Friday 1st of November 1907 Symbolist writer Alfred Jarry aka The Father of Pataphysics dies of tuberculosis aggravated by drug and alcohol use at the age of 34 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Jarry's last request was for a toothpick.

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(x) 87 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1927 Start of the trial against 30-year-old Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Manitoba Law Courts Building, 391 Broadway Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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(x) 82 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1932 20-year-old Wife of Adolf Hitler for one day Eva Anna Paula Braun shoots herself in the neck in her parents' house in München, Bayern, Germany. Braun's wound was only superficial, and she recovered in a couple of days.

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(-) 76 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1938 Murderer George Brain is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Brain stabbed 30-year-old prostitute Rose Muriel Atkins aka Irish Rose to death on 14 July 1938.

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(x) 62 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1952 42-year-old deer hunter Victor 'Bunk' Travis and his companion Ray Burgess are presumably shot dead by 46-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer in Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States. Travis and Burgess and their car were never to be seen again. A massive search was conducted but there was no trace of them. Travis' dead dog and pieces of clothing were eventually recovered but the hunters and their car had vanished from the area.

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(x) 59 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1955 23-year-old Mass murderer Jack Gilbert Graham plants a dynamite bomb in his mother, Daisie King's suitcase that was subsequently loaded aboard United Airlines Flight 629 and exploding over tracts of farmland and sugar beet fields in Longmont, Colorado, United States. Graham had purchased $37,500 worth of life insurance money policies in the airport terminal just before the aircraft's departure at Stapleton Airfield in Denver, Colorado. 44 people were killed in the blast, there were no survivors.

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(-) 49 years ago Monday 1st of November 1965 Janina Popielska is stabbed to death, raped and mutilated by serial killer Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice in Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland. On 2 November the Poznan newspaper Courier Zachodni received a red-ink letter quoting Stefan Zeromsky's 1928 novel 'Popioli': "Only tears of sorrow can wash out the stain of shame, only pangs of suffering can blot out the fires of lust."

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(x) 44 years ago Sunday 1st of November 1970 146 die in nightclub fire in Club Cinq-Sept, Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(x) 28 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1986 27-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'L'Age D'Or nr2' in an installation by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Stadsschouwburg, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands. In an AMVK-installation I was laying naked on a rotating platform, naked with my legs spread, my feet tied to a branch. By shuffling over the platform it looked as if I was moving forward, but yet remaining on the same spot. On the background a film of the same performance in a wood was projected.

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(-) 23 years ago Friday 1st of November 1991 Mass murderer Gang Lu commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 28 in University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Lu killed 47-year-old professor Christoph K. Goertz, 44-year-old chairman Dwight R. Nicholson, assistant professor Robert Alan Smith, 27-year-old fellow graduate student Linhua Shan, 56-year-old assistant vice president for academic affairs T. Anne Cleary and seriously wounded 23-year-old student employee Miya Rodolfo-Sioson before committing suicide. Lu was infuriated because his dissertation 'Study of the "Critical Ionization Velocity" Effect by Particle-in-Cell Simulation' did not r eceive the prestigious D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize. In the months prior to the shooting Lu wrote five letters explaining the reasons for his planned actions.

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(x) 20 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1994 69-year-old Presumed serial killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostro di Firenze is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Firenze, Toscana, Italy. Pacciani probably killed 16 people between 1968 and 1985.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 1st of November 1999 A rather boring Franko B. performance in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 1st of November 2005 Meeting up with a truckload of sheep in a traffic jam in Beijing, Hebei, China.

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