Monday, October 31, 2022

37th year - N° 304 Monday, 31 October 2022

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37th year - N° 304 Monday, 31 October 2022

31 October / Today's 27 Events:
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317 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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159 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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136 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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116 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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109 years ago

Friday 31st of October 1913

Murderer Mike Spanos is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.


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109 years ago

Friday 31st of October 1913

Murderer Frank Seymour is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.


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104 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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102 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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96 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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96 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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93 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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87 years ago He Hit the Cops Twice

Thursday 31st of October 1935

21-year-old Serial bomber Hugh F. 'Idzy' Rutkowski aka The Mad Bomber of Milwaukee leaves a bomb on a window ledge in Fifth Precinct Police Station, Third and Hadley, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Although the damage to the building and surrounding houses was severe, the occupants of the police building escaped injury. The same was true less than 11 minutes later when the second bomb went off, this time at the Third Precinct Police Station at Twelfth and West Vine Streets.


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86 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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84 years ago She Was a Gas

Monday 31st of October 1938

Mary Lahiff dies as result of a cyclopropane explosion while undergoing minor breast surgery by a surgeon from the Lahey Clinic at the age of 44 in New England Baptist Hospital, 125 Parker Hill Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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82 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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68 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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61 years ago

Tuesday 31st of October 1961

Murderer Honor Robinson is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 45 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.


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48 years ago

Thursday 31st of October 1974

Laura Ann Aime is abducted and strangled by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Aime's body was found a month later in American Fork Canyon.


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46 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1976

Architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray, originally Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith known for her E-1027 house dies of natural causes at the age of 98 in Hôpital Broussais, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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41 years ago

Saturday 31st of October 1981

Debra Louise Jackson aka Orange Socks is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death in Georgetown, Texas, United States.

Jackson was only known as 'Orange Socks' until she was identified via a DNA match with her surviving sister in 2019. Lucas confessed to and was convicted of her murder, though doubts have been raised about his complicity in this crime.


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38 years ago He Did What He Had to Do

Wednesday 31st of October 1984

First female Prime Minister of India Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi shot dead by her Sikh body-guards Beant Singh and Satwant Singh in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, the Indian Army's June 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar which left the Sikh temple heavily damaged at the age of 67 in 1 Safdarjung Road, New Delhi, Delhi, India.

Beant fired three rounds into her abdomen from his .38 revolver and then Satwant fired 30 rounds from his Sten submachine gun after she had fallen to the ground. Both men then threw down their weapons and Beant said "I have done what I had to do. You do what you wa nt to do."


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29 years ago He Turned Blue

Sunday 31st of October 1993

Actor and musician River Phoenix, originally River Jude Bottom dies of acute multiple drug intoxication at the age of 23 in The Viper Room, Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, California, United States.

Phoenix collapsed outside and convulsed for over five minutes. By the time paramedics had arrived on the scene Phoenix was turning dark blue in full cardiac arrest and in a flatline state. They administered medication in an attempt to restart his heart. He was rushed to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where further attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.


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29 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1993

Film director Federico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Fellini had suffered a second stroke and fell into an irreversible coma a couple of months earlier.


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26 years ago

Thursday 31st of October 1996

99 die in TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 Fokker 100 crash in Jabaquara, São Paulo, Região Sudeste, Brazil.


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23 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1999

217 die in EgyptAir Flight 990 (MS990/MSR990) Boeing 767-300ER crash into the ocean in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, United States.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was the airplane's departure from normal cruise flight and subsequent impact with the Atlantic Ocean as a result of the 59-year-old relief First Officer Gameel Al-Batouti's flight control inputs. The reason for the relief First Officer's actions was not determined.



17 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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2 years ago

Saturday 31st of October 2020

Actor Sean Thomas Connery known for portraying the character James Bond dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas.


Sunday, October 30, 2022

37th year - N° 303 Sunday, 30 October 2022

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37th year - N° 303 Sunday, 30 October 2022

30 October / Today's 33 Events:
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1787 years ago

Friday 30th of October 0235

18th Pope Pontianus dies due to maltreatment in exile by Emperor Maximinus Thrax in the mines in Montevecchio, Sardinia, Italy.


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287 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1735

2nd President of the United States John Adams is born in 133 Franklin Street, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.


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165 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1857

Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Édouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, Poitou-Charentes, France.


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159 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1863

Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, United States.


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151 years ago

Monday 30th of October 1871

Poet and philosopher Paul Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry is born in Sète, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.


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137 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1885

Modernist poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, United States.


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112 years ago He Disappeared with Humanity

Sunday 30th of October 1910

Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant dies of unknown causes at the age of 18 in Heiden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.

Dunant's final words were "Where has humanity gone?"


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91 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1931

Cop killer James E. Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.


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90 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1932

Film director Louis Marie Malle is born in Thumeries, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.


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85 years ago

Saturday 30th of October 1937

Film director Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouche is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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84 years ago He Created Panic

Sunday 30th of October 1938

23-year-old Actor and film director Orson George Welles broadcasts his radio play "War of the Worlds" in CBS studio, 485 Madison Avenue, 20th floor, New York City, New York, United States.

Welles' broadcast was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel 'The War of the Worlds' (1898).


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81 years ago

Thursday 30th of October 1941

Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.


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73 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1949

Kidnapper and multiple murderer Larry Gene Bell is born in Ralph, Alabama, United States.


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56 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1966

Cheri Jo Josephine Bates is stabbed to death by unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer in Riverside City College, Riverside, California, United States.

There were similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates's death but no real proof she was killed by Zodiac.


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56 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1966

Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh is born in Az-Zarqā, Muħāfazat az-Zarqā, Jordan.


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54 years ago He Choked on Something

Wednesday 30th of October 1968

Actor Ramon Novarro, originally José Ramón Gil Samaniego aka Latin Lover is murdered by 22-year-old Paul and 17-year-old Tom Ferguson at the age of 69 in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, California, United States.

Novarro had hired the Ferguson brothers from an agency to come to his home for sex but the two young men believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarro's house. Novarro died as a result of asphyxiation - having choked to death on his own blood after being beaten. Some say Novarro had in fact been suffocated with a lead dildo given to him 45 years earlier by Rudolph Valentino.


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53 years ago

Thursday 30th of October 1969

Helen Puttock is strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in 95 Earl Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United States.


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52 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1970

27-year-old Singer-songwriter and poet Jim James Douglas Morrison aka The Lizard King aka Mr. Mojo Risin' known from The Doors is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and fined $500 for indecent exposure during a concert in Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, United States.


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47 years ago

Thursday 30th of October 1975

Wilma McCann is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Prince Philip Playing Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

McCann was Sutcliffe's first deadly victim.


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45 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1977

Judy Judith Ann Miller is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in Railway Diner, 8300 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, California, United States.

Miller's body was found naked, face up on a parkway in a residential area in the La Crescenta neighborhood northeast of downtown Los Angeles on 1 November 1977.


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43 years ago He Decided to Drown Himself

Tuesday 30th of October 1979

Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Étang Rompu, Yvelines, Rambouillet, Île-de-France, France.

Boulin's final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback."


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41 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1981

Britta Schilling is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Teufelsmoor, Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, .

Schilling was found naked and her clothes scattered on 6 November 1981.


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41 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1981

Noise music band Club Moral play their fourth concert in Devotion Pictures, Kattenberg 122, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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40 years ago

Saturday 30th of October 1982

Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Joliet, Illinois, United States.


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38 years ago

Tuesday 30th of October 1984

Cop killer Thomas Andy Barefoot is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Barefoot shot 31-year-old police officer Carl LeVin in the head in an attempt to avoid arrest after he raped a 3-year-old girl.


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37 years ago

Wednesday 30th of October 1985

25-year-old Mass murderess Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist shoots 2-year-old Recife Cosmen, Earl Trout and Augustus Ferrara in a shooting spree because "My family makes me nervous" in Springfield Mall, 1250 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, Pennsylvania, United States.

Seegrist also wounded seven people.


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32 years ago

Tuesday 30th of October 1990

Escape artist Joseph Burrus aka Amazing Joe is crushed by a load of concrete in a 'buried alive' magician's trick at the age of 32 in Blackbeard's Family Fun Center, 4055 N Chestnut Diagonal, Fresno, California, United States.

As trick-and-treaters watched in shock rescuers frantically dug Burrus out but were unable to reach him in time.


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32 years ago

Tuesday 30th of October 1990

Viktor Wadim Tishchenko is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

Tishchenko fought hard for his life, biting and breaking Chikatilo's finger.


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25 years ago

Thursday 30th of October 1997

Film director Samuel Michael Fuller dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Hollywood, California, United States.


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18 years ago

Saturday 30th of October 2004

Noise music band Club Moral play their 108th concert in De Kroon, Kerkstraat 91, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.



17 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 30th of October 2005

Enjoying a tasty meal at the 'Happy Forest' village restaurant with Belgian cyclists Bavo and Sofie in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.


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13 years ago

Friday 30th of October 2009

Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies of a heart attack at the age of 101 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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4 years ago

Tuesday 30th of October 2018

Musician and founder of The Residents Hardy Winfred Fox dies of brain cancer at the age of 73 in San Anselmo, California, United States.