31st year - N° 294 Thursday, 20 October 2016

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31st year - N° 294 Thursday, 20 October 2016

20 October / Today's 16 Events:

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(-) 829 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1187 172nd Pope Urbanus III, originally Uberto Crivelli dies of grief at the age of 67 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 162 years ago Friday 20th of October 1854 Poet Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud is born in 12 rue Napoléon, Charleville, Champagne-Ardenne, France.

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(+) 142 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1874 Modernist composer Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 134 years ago Friday 20th of October 1882 Actor Bela Lugosi, originally Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó known for portraying Count Dracula is born in Lugoj, Timiș, Romania. Lugosi later based his last name on his hometown.

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(-) 125 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1891 Matilda Clover is poisoned by serial killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist in Lambeth Road 27, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 122 years ago Saturday 20th of October 1894 Actress and model Olive Thomas, originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy is born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 114 years ago Monday 20th of October 1902 Maud Marsh is poisoned with tartar-emetic by serial poisoner George Chapman aka The Borough Poisoner in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 106 years ago Thursday 20th of October 1910 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinz Brinkmann is born in Clausthal, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 90 years ago Wednesday 20th of October 1926 Virginia A. Grant is strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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(x) 72 years ago Friday 20th of October 1944 130 die in East Ohio Gas Company explosion in East 61st Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 70 years ago Sunday 20th of October 1946 Writer Elfriede Jelinek is born in Mürzzuschlag, Steiermark, .

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(-) 52 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1964 31st President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover dies of massive internal bleeding at the age of 90 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 48 years ago Sunday 20th of October 1968 First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy dies of massive internal bleeding in Skorpios, Ionian Islands, Greece.

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(x) 31 years ago Sunday 20th of October 1985 Twentieth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC on the car of Mr. Galand, chairman of the CNAPD in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. It was the second action in their Campagne Pierre Akkerman.

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(-) 22 years ago Thursday 20th of October 1994 Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 12 years ago Wednesday 20th of October 2004 Murderer Ricky Eugene Morrow is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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