Tuesday, October 31, 2017

32nd year - N° 304 Tuesday, 31 October 2017

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32nd year - N° 304 Tuesday, 31 October 2017

31 October / Today's 14 Events:
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312 years ago

Saturday 31st of October 1705

249th Pope Clemens XIV, originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli is born in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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154 years ago

Saturday 31st of October 1863

Outlaw and murderer Tom Thomas E. Ketchum is born in San Saba County, Texas, United States.


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131 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1886

Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek is born in Miaogaotai, Xikou, Zhejiang, China.


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111 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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99 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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97 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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91 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1926

Propaganda of the Deed anarchist Anteo Zamboni is lynched by nearby Fascist squadristi after attempting to assassinate Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce at the age of 15 in Via dell'Indipendenza, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

The man who first detained Zamboni and identified him as the would-be assassin was cavalry officer Carlo Alberto Pasolini, father of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini.


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91 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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88 years ago

Thursday 31st of October 1929

Actor Bud Spencer, originally Carlo Pedersoli is born in Borgo Santa Lucia, Napoli, Campania, Italy.


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81 years ago

Saturday 31st of October 1936

Actor Michael Landon, originally Eugene Maurice Orowitz is born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, New York, United States.


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77 years ago

Thursday 31st of October 1940

Guitarist Eric Ronald Griffiths known from The Quarrymen is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.


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63 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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24 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.



12 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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