33rd year - N° 274 Monday, 1 October 2018

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33rd year - N° 274 Monday, 1 October 2018

1 October / Today's 22 Events:

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(-) 614 years ago Monday 1st of October 1404 203rd Pope Bonifatius IX, originally Pietro Cybo Tomacelli dies of natural causes at the age of 54 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 171 years ago Friday 1st of October 1847 Theosophist, writer and women's rights activist Annie Wood Besant is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 130 years ago Monday 1st of October 1888 Unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper sends a 'Saucy Jacky' postcard to the Central News Agency in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. I was not codding dear old Boss when I gave you the tip, you'll hear about Saucy Jacky's work tomorrow double event this time number one squealed a bit couldn't finish straight off. Had not got time to get ears off for police thanks for keeping last letter back till I got to work again. Jack the Ripper

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(+) 115 years ago Thursday 1st of October 1903 Composer Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz is born in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.

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(+) 108 years ago Saturday 1st of October 1910 Gangster Bonnie Elizabeth Parker is born in Rowena, Texas, United States.

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(-) 105 years ago Wednesday 1st of October 1913 Double murderer Patrick Higgins is executed by hanging by John Ellis at the age of 38 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Higgins drowned his 2 sons, 6-year-old William and 4-year-old John at Hopetoun Quarry, Abercorn, West Lothian on 25 October 1911.

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(+) 98 years ago Friday 1st of October 1920 Actor Walter Matthau, originally Walter John Matthow is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 96 years ago Sunday 1st of October 1922 Activist and founder of Die Grünen Petra Karin Kelly, originally Petra Karin Lehmann shot dead while sleeping by her partner, 69-year-old ex-general Gert Bastian at the age of 25 in Swinemünder Straße 6, Tannenbusch, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. After killing Kelly, Bastian committed suicide with the same weapon. Their bodies were only found weeks later after Bastian's wife summoned the police to search Kelly's flat.

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(+) 94 years ago Wednesday 1st of October 1924 39th President of the United States Jimmy James Earl Carter is born in Wise Sanatorium, Hospital Street, Plains, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 90 years ago Monday 1st of October 1928 Actor George Peppard known for his role as Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith in ‘The A-Team’ is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Tuesday 1st of October 1935 Actress and singer Julie Elizabeth Andrews is born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(x) 73 years ago Monday 1st of October 1945 Veronica Hudzinski is shot in the shoulder by serial killer William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More in North Winthrop Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Hudzinski survived.

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(+) 73 years ago He Was a Premature Spider Monday 1st of October 1945 Alpine ski racer Vladimir Peter Sabich aka Spider is born in Sacramento, California, United States. Sabich's lifelong nickname 'Spider' was given by his father as a result of thin arms and legs at a premature birth.

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(-) 67 years ago Monday 1st of October 1951 Chief executioner Jules-Henri Desfourneaux aka Monsieur de Paris dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 61 years ago He Was Going to See Jesus Tuesday 1st of October 1957 Cop killer Jacques Fesch is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 27 in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Fesch' last journal entry was "In five hours, I will see Jesus!".

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(x) 56 years ago Monday 1st of October 1962 29-year-old American Civil Rights Movement figure James Howard Meredith known for becoming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi becomes the first African-American student to enroll in University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Saturday 1st of October 1977 Hilda McAulay is found strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in Renfrewshire, Langbank, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 41 years ago Saturday 1st of October 1977 Jean Bernadette Jordan, originally Jean Royle is hammered and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Princess Road, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. A week later Sutcliffe went back to the undiscovered body and mutilated it, trying to cut off the head.

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(-) 22 years ago Tuesday 1st of October 1996 Phytotherapist and nutritionist Alfred Vogel dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Feusisberg, Schwyz, Switzerland.

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(-) 18 years ago Sunday 1st of October 2000 Gangster Reginald Kray aka Reggie Kray dies of cancer at the age of 67 in Townhouse Hotel Room #4, 18-22 Yarmouth Road, Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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(-) 14 years ago Friday 1st of October 2004 Photographer Richard Avedon dies of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 81 in Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 13 years ago Saturday 1st of October 2005 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV plays at the Midi Modern Music Festival in Haidian Park, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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