37th year - N° 244 Thursday, 1 September 2022

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37th year - N° 244 Thursday, 1 September 2022

1 September / Today's 26 Events:

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(-) 307 years ago Sunday 1st of September 1715 King of France and Navarre Louis XIV, originally Louis Dieudonné aka Le Roi du Soleil dies of gangrene at the age of 77 in Palais de Versailles, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 147 years ago Wednesday 1st of September 1875 Writer Edgar Rice Burroughs known for Tarzan is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 135 years ago Thursday 1st of September 1887 Writer Blaise Cendrars, originally Frédéric-Louis Sauser is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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(-) 105 years ago Saturday 1st of September 1917 Célestine Buisson, originally Lavie is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France. To Buisson, Landru was known as Mr Fremyet. His entry in his black notebook for that day was "10Hr 15'."

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(+) 101 years ago Thursday 1st of September 1921 Writer Willem Frederik Hermans is born in Nederlands Hervormde Diakonesseninrichting, Overtoom 283, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 1st of September 1940 Serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder is born in Hersbruck, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 80 years ago Tuesday 1st of September 1942 Murderer Charles Brooks aka Shareef Ahmad Abdul-Rahim known for becoming the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the U.S. is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(x) 74 years ago Wednesday 1st of September 1948 31-year-old Actor Robert Charles Durman Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds are arrested for possession of marijuana in Hollywood, California, United States. After serving a week at the county jail Mitchum spent 43 days (from 16 February to 30 March 1949) at a Castaic California prison farm.

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(x) 65 years ago Sunday 1st of September 1957 175 die in wooden body train derailment in Kendal, Middlesex, Jamaica.

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(-) 60 years ago Saturday 1st of September 1962 Erich Hallbauer is shot dead by serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder in Ochenbrück, Bayern, Germany. Gosmann robbed the local Sparkasse.

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(x) 59 years ago Sunday 1st of September 1963 32-year-old Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare is arrested in Rookwood Street, Mount Pleasant, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Cooke came to pick up a rifle used in the murder of Shirley McLeod hidden in a Geraldton Wax bush. He confessed to several crimes, including eight murders and 14 attempted murders.

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(x) 58 years ago Tuesday 1st of September 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 11 / Mama und Papa' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 55 years ago Friday 1st of September 1967 Wife of camp commandant and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch, originally Margarete Ilse Köhler aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe commits suicide by hanging at the age of 61 in Zuchthaus, Aichach, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 54 years ago Sunday 1st of September 1968 9/11 terrorist Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta is born in Kafr el-Sheikh, Kafr el-Sheikh Governate, Egypt.

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(-) 52 years ago Tuesday 1st of September 1970 Writer, dramatist, critic, poet and journalist François Charles Mauriac dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 85 in Institut Pasteur, XVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 43 years ago His Urge to Kill Remained Strong Saturday 1st of September 1979 Barbara Leach is hammered and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in 13 Ashgrove, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. "My urge to kill remained strong and was totally out of my control."

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(-) 41 years ago Tuesday 1st of September 1981 Nazi architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer dies of a stroke at the age of 76 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Speer was in London to participate in the BBC Newsnight programme.

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(x) 40 years ago Wednesday 1st of September 1982 Serial killer Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer is arrested in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.

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(-) 40 years ago Wednesday 1st of September 1982 Communist activist and politician Władysław Gomułka dies of unknown causes at the age of 77 in Konstancin-Jeziorna, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.

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(x) 39 years ago Thursday 1st of September 1983 269 die in Korean Air Lines Boeing 747-230B Flight 007 crash in Moneron Island, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. The plane was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor, claiming that the aircraft was on a spy mission.

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(x) 38 years ago Saturday 1st of September 1984 80-year-old Surrealist artist and first Marqués de Dalí de Pubol Salvador Dalí, originally Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech is heavily burned in a bed fire in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

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(x) 35 years ago He Lost His Right Frontal Lobe Tuesday 1st of September 1987 46-year-old Vietnam veteran and peace activist Brian S. Willson is hit by a train while engaged in a railroad tracks blocking protest with members of a Veterans Peace Action Team against the shipping of U.S. weapons to Central America in Concord Naval Weapons Station, Concord, California, United States. An approaching train did not stop and struck the protesting veterans. Willson was hit and lost both legs below the knee while suffering a severe skull fracture with loss of his right frontal lobe.

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(-) 31 years ago She Never Fought Back Sunday 1st of September 1991 Mary Ellen DeLuca is strangled by serial killer Joel Rifkin aka The Long Island Ripper in Nassau County, New York, United States. DeLuca was picked up by Rifkin, rushed through sex with him and he asked her if she wanted to die and she said yes so he strangled her to death, she never fought back. He left her body at a rest stop outside Cornwall where she was found on 1 October.

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(x) 27 years ago Friday 1st of September 1995 31-year-old Serial killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer sentenced to life in prison without parole for at least 25 years in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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(-) 23 years ago Wednesday 1st of September 1999 Murderer Raymond James Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 1st of September 1999 Paint peeling off walls in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.

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