36th year - N° 261 Saturday, 18 September 2021

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36th year - N° 261 Saturday, 18 September 2021

18 September / Today's 31 Events:

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(+) 256 years ago Wednesday 18th of September 1765 254th Pope Gregorius XVI, originally Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari aka Mauro is born in Belluno, Veneto, Italy.

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(+) 172 years ago Tuesday 18th of September 1849 Murderess Martha Place, originally Martha 'Mattie' Garretson is born in Readington Township, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 153 years ago Friday 18th of September 1868 Horse thief and murderer Melvin E. Baughn is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Seneca, Kansas, United States. Baughn's execution was conducted inside of a canvass enclosure in front of the jail in Seneca. A rope was stretched on stakes about twenty feet from the enclosure and twenty guards armed with muskets and bayonets were stationed on the outside of the rope to keep back the crowd.

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(-) 115 years ago Tuesday 18th of September 1906 Murderer John C. Barnes is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 115 years ago Tuesday 18th of September 1906 Actress Greta Garbo, originally Greta Lovisa Gustafsson is born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

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(-) 90 years ago She Couldn't Breathe Friday 18th of September 1931 Adolf Hitler's half-niece and supposed lover Geli Angela Maria Raubal commits suicide by a shot in her lung at the age of 23 in Prinzregentenplatz 16, München, Bayern, Germany. Raubal shot herself in Hitler's apartment with Hitler's Walther 7.65 pistol.

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(+) 88 years ago Monday 18th of September 1933 Actor Robert Blake, originally Michael James Gubitosi is born in Nutley, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago Monday 18th of September 1933 Victim of The Manson Family Donald Jerome Shea aka Shorty is born in Medford, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 78 years ago Saturday 18th of September 1943 60-year-old Leader of the Italian National Fascist Party Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce calls out the Repubblica Sociale Italiana in Salò, Lombardia, Italy. The Repubblica Sociale Italiana, informally known as the Repubblica di Salò, was a satellite state of Nazi Germany during the later part of World War II

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(+) 76 years ago Tuesday 18th of September 1945 Computer programmer and businessman John David McAfee known for McAfee VirusScan is born in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. McAfee was born on a U.S. Army Base to an American father and a British mother but was raised in Salem, Virginia.

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(+) 69 years ago Thursday 18th of September 1952 Musician Dee Dee Ramone, originally Douglas Glenn Colvin is born in Fort Lee, Virginia, United States.

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(-) 68 years ago Friday 18th of September 1953 Murderess Louisa May Merrifield, originally Louisa Highway is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 47 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Merrifield was the fourth and last woman to be executed at the prison.

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(-) 62 years ago Friday 18th of September 1959 Serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 32 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

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(-) 60 years ago Monday 18th of September 1961 Second Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld dies in a Douglas DC-6B plane crash at the age of 56 in Ndola, Zambia. Hammarskjöld and fifteen others perished in the crash. The circumstances of the incident are still not clear. There is some recent evidence that suggest the plane was shot down.

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(x) 56 years ago Saturday 18th of September 1965 38-year-old Cop killer Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen kills four police officers while escaping in a stolen car from a burglary in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark. Sørensen was captured three days later.

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(+) 53 years ago Wednesday 18th of September 1968 Murderer Charles Daniel Thacker is born in Lorain County, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 51 years ago Friday 18th of September 1970 Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jimi James Marshall Hendrix, originally Johnny Allen Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 28 in Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. A post-mortem concluded that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Hendrix had taken nine Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.

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(x) 47 years ago Wednesday 18th of September 1974 Start of the trial against 47-year-old Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Katowice, Województwo Katowice, Poland. Marchwicki's trial received great interest; entrance to the room was only allowed by a special entrance ticket. On 28 July 1975 the Katowice Voivodship Court found Marchwicki guilty of the murder of fourteen women and attempted murder of another six, condemning him to death.

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(x) 47 years ago Wednesday 18th of September 1974 18-year-old Sally Versoi and 17-year-old Diane Flynn are picked up by 47-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Carignan forced them to perform oral sex and would beat them if they didn't follow a command. The two girls were able to escape when Carignan stopped for fuel.

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(x) 47 years ago Wednesday 18th of September 1974 28-year-old Serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer shoots elderly campers Emmett and Lois Johnson to death on a campground in Nevada, United States.

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(x) 46 years ago Thursday 18th of September 1975 40-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker is found guilty of robbery, burglary and kidnapping, and sentenced to 30 to 80 years imprisonment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 46 years ago Thursday 18th of September 1975 21-year-old Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst is arrested by the FBI and SFPD in San Francisco, California, United States. Hearst and another SLA member, Wendy Yoshimura were arrested by FBI Agent Thomas Padden.

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(-) 40 years ago Friday 18th of September 1981 Malcolm Barlow is strangled by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 36 years ago They Wanted to See the Image of God Wednesday 18th of September 1985 60 members of the ATA tribe are poisoned by their High Priestess Datu Mangayanon Butaog "so they could see the image of God" in Dabao-shō, Philippines. Datu Mangayanon Butaog fed her followers a porridge spiked with insecticide and then committed suicide by stabbing herself to death.

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(-) 25 years ago Wednesday 18th of September 1996 Spree killer Raymond Lee Stewart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Joliet Prison, Joliet, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago Wednesday 18th of September 1996 Murderer Joe Fedelfido Gonzales is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 18th of September 1999 The sister of the bride wore a sexy plaster cast at the wedding of Ronald Van De Sompel and Mie Nagai in 't Boerenhof, Oostakker, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 20 years ago Tuesday 18th of September 2001 Murderer James Roy Knox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 19 years ago He Requested Spicy Stuff Wednesday 18th of September 2002 Murderer Ron Scott Shamburger is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Shamburger's last meal request was for Nachos with chili and cheese, one bowl of sliced jalapenos, one bowl of picante sauce, two large onions (sliced and grilled), tacos (with fresh tomatoes, lettuce and cheese) and toasted corn tortilla shells.

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(x) 19 years ago Wednesday 18th of September 2002 92-year-old Prefect of Paris and Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon is released from prison on grounds of poor health in less than three years into his ten years term in . Papon was charged with crimes against humanity, complicity of assassination and abuse of authority.

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(-) 17 years ago Saturday 18th of September 2004 Film director Russ Russell Albion Meyer aka The King of the Nudies known for his big breast fixation dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in 3121 Arrowhead Drive, Hollywood Hills, California, United States.

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