Saturday, October 8, 2022

37th year - N° 281 Saturday, 8 October 2022

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37th year - N° 281 Saturday, 8 October 2022

8 October / Today's 30 Events:
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153 years ago

Friday 8th of October 1869

14th President of the United States Franklin Pierce dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 65 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.


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151 years ago

Sunday 8th of October 1871

Over 300 die in the Great Chicago fire in 137 DeKoven Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

The conflagration burned until Tuesday 10 October and left more than 100.000 residents homeless.


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149 years ago

Wednesday 8th of October 1873

Crime matriarch Ma Kate Barker, originally Arizona Donnie Clark is born in Ash Grove, Missouri, United States.


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141 years ago

Saturday 8th of October 1881

Thief Vincenzo Peruggia known for stealing the Mona Lisa is born in Dumenza, Lombardia, Italy.


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118 years ago

Saturday 8th of October 1904

49-year-old Bigamist and multiple murderer Johann Otto Hoch, originally John Schmidt aka The Bluebeard Murderer marries Bertha Dolder as Leo Prager in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Hoch disappears after buying $1.200,- of rugs from $3.500,- Dolder gave him for a furniture store.


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110 years ago

Tuesday 8th of October 1912

Siamese twins Millie and Christine McKoy aka The Carolina Twins aka The Two-Headed Nightingale aka The Eighth Wonder of the World dies of tuberculosis at the age of 61 in Whiteville, North Carolina, United States.

Christine died 12 hours after her sister Millie by giving her massive doses of morphine to end her life quickly after Millie's death.


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102 years ago

Friday 8th of October 1920

Science fiction writer Frank Patrick Herbert known for his novel Dune is born in Tacoma, Washington, United States.


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75 years ago

Wednesday 8th of October 1947

Thief Vincenzo Peruggia known for stealing the Mona Lisa dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France, France.


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74 years ago

Friday 8th of October 1948

Serial killer Pedro Alonso López aka The Monster of the Andes is born in Santa Isabel, Tolima, Colombia.


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74 years ago

Friday 8th of October 1948

Musician Johnny Ramone, originally John William Cummings is born in Long Island, New York, United States.


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73 years ago She Was no Alien

Saturday 8th of October 1949

Actress Sigourney Susan Alexandra Weaver aka The Sci-Fi Queen is born in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.


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70 years ago

Wednesday 8th of October 1952

112 die in three train collision in Harrow and Wealdstone station, Wealdstone, Middlesex, United Kingdom.


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66 years ago

Monday 8th of October 1956

Serial killer Javed Mughal Iqbal is born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.


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64 years ago He Paced for a Few Hours Only

Wednesday 8th of October 1958

43-year-old Heart patient Arne Larsson known for having the first pacemaker implant receives the first pacemaker implanted by cardiac surgeon Åke Senning in Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

Larsson lived for another forty-three years and during that time went through twenty-six pacemakers. The first device lasted only a few hours.


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60 years ago

Monday 8th of October 1962

57-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess escapes from prison for the seventh time in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

Judd assumed an other name and lived free for six years in San Francisco.


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57 years ago

Friday 8th of October 1965

Musician C. J. Ramone, originally Christopher Joseph Ward is born in Queens, New York, New York, United States.


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52 years ago

Thursday 8th of October 1970

34-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Horst Mahler known for switching his beliefs to neo-Nazism is arrested in Knesebeckstrasse 89, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are also arrested.


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52 years ago

Thursday 8th of October 1970

32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 33. Aktion in Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States.


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52 years ago

Thursday 8th of October 1970

Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in retaliation for the killings of Black Panthers Jonathan JacksonWilliam Christmas and James McClain in Marin County Courthouse, San Rafael, California, United States.


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41 years ago It Was Disabled with a Small Explosive Charge

Thursday 8th of October 1981

39-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber leaves Bomb #5 in University of Utah Bennion Hall Business Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

A student discovered the package and alerted the campus police. The campus police worried it might be bomb and brought in the Salt Lake City Police. Their bomb squad x-rayed the package, confirmed it was a bomb and disabled it with a small explosive charge.


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39 years ago

Saturday 8th of October 1983

45-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 77. Aktion in De Fabriek, Baarsstraat 38, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

Nitsch' 77. Aktion lasted three hours.


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38 years ago

Monday 8th of October 1984

Third bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Honeywell Europe HQ, Avenue Henri Matisse, Evere, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

It was the third action in their Première Campagne Anti-Impérialiste d'Octobre.


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37 years ago

Tuesday 8th of October 1985

Sixteenth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Intercom, 16 Quai des Usines, Schaerbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

It was the first action in their Campagne Karl Marx.


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30 years ago

Thursday 8th of October 1992

Serial killer Robert Andrew 'Bob' Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher dies of a heart attack at the age of 43 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States.


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25 years ago

Wednesday 8th of October 1997

Multiple murderer Ricky Lee Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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21 years ago His Body Would Be Cut in 100 Pieces

Monday 8th of October 2001

Serial killer Javed Mughal Iqbal commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 45 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Iqbal confessed to the murders of 100 boys all aged between 6 and 16 and was sentenced to death by hanging, the judge passed sentence saying "You will be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children you killed, Your body will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children."


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21 years ago

Monday 8th of October 2001

118 die in Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686 McDonnell Douglas MD-87 and Cessna Citation CJ2 business jet collision in Aeroporto di Milano-Linate, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.


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18 years ago He Was Deconstructed

Friday 8th of October 2004

Philosopher Jacques Jackie Élie Derrida aka The Father of Deconstructionism dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 74 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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17 years ago

Saturday 8th of October 2005

Noise music band Club Moral play their 116th concert in N°.001 Underground, 1643 Alley, Huashan Rd, Shanghai, China.



8 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 8th of October 2014

Evening gloom in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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