29th year - N° 307 Monday, 3 November 2014

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29th year - N° 307 Monday, 3 November 2014

3 November / Today's 13 Events:

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(-) 221 years ago Sunday 3rd of November 1793 Feminist, activist, playwright and abolitionist Olympe de Gouges, originally Marie Gouze is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 45 in Place de la Révolution, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. de Gouges was sentenced to death for seditious behaviour and attempting to reinstate the monarchy.

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(-) 133 years ago Thursday 3rd of November 1881 Arend De Hees is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 115 years ago Friday 3rd of November 1899 Composer Rezső Seress, originally Rudolf 'Rudi' Spitzer known for Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday) is born in Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary.

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(-) 100 years ago Tuesday 3rd of November 1914 Expressionist poet Georg Trakl commits suicide by a cocaine overdose at the age of 27 in Kraków, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.

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(-) 57 years ago Sunday 3rd of November 1957 Soviet space dog Laika, originally Kudryavka aka Little Curly aka Barker dies of overheating in a Sputnik 2 capsule at the age of 3 in Space. Laika died within hours from overheating possibly caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload. The true cause and time of her death were not made public until 2002; instead, it was widely reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six, or as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depletion.

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(-) 57 years ago His Energy Left Him Sunday 3rd of November 1957 Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich dies of myocardial insufficiency with sudden heart failure at the age of 60 in United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Reich was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the 'orgone energy accumulator' in violation of the Food and Drug Act. Reich was buried in a vault at Orgonon that he had asked his caretaker to dig in 1955. He had left instructions that there was to be no religious ceremony but that a record should be played of Schubert's 'Ave Maria' sung by Marian Anderson.

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(x) 32 years ago Wednesday 3rd of November 1982 Over 1000 die in fuel tanker and munitions truck collision in Salang Tunnel, Parwan, Afghanistan. Drivers of cars, trucks and buses evidently continued to enter the tunnel after the explosion. Soviet troops, fearing that the explosion might have been a rebel attack, closed off both ends with tanks, trapping many inside. Some burned to death; others were killed by smoke and by carbon monoxide escaping from vehicles whose drivers kept their engines idling to stay warm in the freezing cold. As many as 700 Soviet troops and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died.

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(-) 21 years ago Wednesday 3rd of November 1993 Inventor Léon Theremin, originally Lev Sergeyevich Termen dies of natural causes at the age of 97 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(-) 18 years ago Sunday 3rd of November 1996 Self-proclaimed Emperor of Central Africa Jean-Bédel Bokassa dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Bangui, Ombella-M'Poko, Central African Republic.

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(-) 16 years ago Tuesday 3rd of November 1998 Comic book artist Bob Kane, originally Robert Kahn known for Batman dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 16 years ago Tuesday 3rd of November 1998 37-year-old Serial killer Wayne Adam Ford aka The Breast Severer walks into a police station, pulls a severed breast in a ziplock bag out of his pocket and confesses to four murders in Humboldt County Sheriff Department, 826 4th Street, Eureka, California, United States.

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(x) 11 years ago Monday 3rd of November 2003 35-year-old Serial killer Yang Xinhai aka The Monster Killer is arrested after acting suspiciously during a routine police inspection of entertainment venues in Cangzhou, Hebei, China. Shortly after he was arrested Yang confessed to 65 murders, 23 rapes and five attacks causing serious injury: 49 murders, 17 rapes and five attacks in Henan; eight murders and three rapes in Hebei; six murders and two rapes in Anhui; and two murders and one rape in Shandong.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 3rd of November 2005 Meeting our first website provider in a traffic jam in Beijing, Hebei, China.

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