38th year - N° 291 Wednesday, 18 October 2023

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
38th year - N° 291 Wednesday, 18 October 2023

18 October / Today's 33 Events:

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(+) 618 years ago He Was One of Eighteen Friday 18th of October 1405 210th Pope Pius II, originally Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini is born in Corsignano, Toscana, Italy. Enea was born to Silvio and Vittoria Forteguerri who had 18 children including several twins, though most died at a young age.

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(-) 606 years ago Saturday 18th of October 1417 Gregorius XII, originally Angelo Corraro dies of unknown causes at the age of 91 in Recanati, Marche, Italy.

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(-) 520 years ago Sunday 18th of October 1503 215th Pope Pius III, originally Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini dies of an ulcer in the leg at the age of 64 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Pius III had been on his deathbed with gout since 13 October. Some alleged Pius III died of poison administered at the instigation of Pandolfo Petrucci, the ruler of Siena.

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(+) 246 years ago Saturday 18th of October 1777 Poet and writer Heinrich Bernd Wilhelm von Kleist is born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(x) 172 years ago Saturday 18th of October 1851 The novel 'Moby Dick' by 32-year-old Writer Herman Melville known for his novel ‘Moby-Dick’ is first published as 'The Whale' by Richard Bentley in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 125 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1898 Singer, diseuse and actress Lotte Lenya, originally Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer is born in Ameisgasse 38, Penzing, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 114 years ago Monday 18th of October 1909 Murderer Gerald T. 'Jerry' Thompson is born in Joliet, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 103 years ago Monday 18th of October 1920 Double murderer LeRoy Sanford McGahuey is born in Saint Helens, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Monday 18th of October 1926 Actor Klaus Kinski, originally Klaus Gunther Nakszynski is born in Zoppot, Pomorze Wschodnie, Poland.

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(+) 97 years ago He Rolled Over Beethoven Monday 18th of October 1926 Singer-songwriter and musician Chuck Charles Edward Anderson Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 96 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1927 Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire is born in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

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(-) 92 years ago His Last Breath Was Saved as a Memento Sunday 18th of October 1931 Inventor Thomas Alva Edison aka The Wizard of Menlo Park dies of complications from diabetes at the age of 84 in Glenmont, Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, United States. Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at The Henry Ford Museum near Detroit. Ford reportedly convinced Charles Edison to seal a test tube of air in the inventor's room shortly after his death as a memento.

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(+) 84 years ago Wednesday 18th of October 1939 Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is born in Old French Hospital, 1818 Orleans Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Wednesday 18th of October 1944 Cop killer Barry Peter Prudom, originally Barry Edwards aka The Phantom in the Forest is born in 39 Grosvenor Place, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 76 years ago Saturday 18th of October 1947 Leader of the l'Ordre International Chevaleresque de Tradition Solaire cult Luc Jouret is born in Kikwit, Bandundu, Belgian Congo.

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(+) 63 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1960 Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, originally Jean-Claude Camille François van Varenberg aka The Muscles from Brussels is born in Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(+) 62 years ago Wednesday 18th of October 1961 Victim of Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer Jack Owen Blake is born in Mercy Hospital, Watertown, New York, United States.

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(x) 52 years ago Monday 18th of October 1971 An unidentified man jumps on the back of 67-year-old Soviet statesman Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin shouting "Long live free Hungary!" in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Kosygin was not physically hurt by the attack.

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(x) 49 years ago Friday 18th of October 1974 36-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 47. Aktion in Kunstmesse, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 49 years ago Friday 18th of October 1974 Melissa Anne Smith is abducted, assaulted and strangled by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Midvale, Utah, United States. Smith's body was found nine days later by hunters in Summit Park.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1977 Yolanda Washington is found raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 6510 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, California, United States. Washington was the first victim of the Hillside Stranglers.

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(+) 46 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1977 Triple murderer Lamont D. Reese is born in Tarrant, Texas, United States.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1977 Leader of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion Andreas Bernd Baader is found shot in the head with a FEG 7.65 pistol in cell 719 at the age of 34 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The autopsy concluded that Baader shot himself to the neck, 3 cm above the hairline in a direction that made the bullet come out through the forehead from a straight trajectory, with a 7.65 calibre pistol which is considered implausible. Moreover the investigation carried out by the ballistic expert Dr Roland Hoffman using Baader's gun showed that the bullet must have been fired from a distance of between 30 and 40 centimetres which is considered likely impossible.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1977 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Jan-Carl Raspe is found shot in the head with a Heckler & Koch 9mm pistol in cell 716 at the age of 33 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Raspe was found still alive but died in the hospital hours later. There were no fingerprints found on Raspe's gun and there were no gunpowder traces on Raspe's hands while Raspe was still holding the gun inside his hand when he was found, something considered at least unusual.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1977 Vorsitzender des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie Hanns Martin Schleyer is executed after being held prisoner of the Rote Armee Fraktion commando Siegfried Hausner for 44 days at the age of 62 in Rue Charles Péguy, Mulhouse, Alsace, France. Schleyer was taken from Brussels and shot dead en route to Mulhouse where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100.

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(x) 46 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1977 30-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Irmgard Möller is found stabbed four times in the chest in cell 725 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Möller has always maintained that she did not attempt suicide and that there was no pre-arranged suicide pact between the RAF prisoners.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1977 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Gudrun Ensslin is found hanging from a length of speaker cable in cell 720 at the age of 37 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. "I am afraid of being suicided in the same way as Ulrike. If there is no letter from me and I'm found dead; in this case it is an assassination."

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(x) 46 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1977 The Lufthansa Flight 181 'Landshut' Boeing is stormed by German GSG9 commandos in Operation Feuerzauber Hijackers Wabil Harb and Hind Alameh were killed, Zohair Akache and Suhaila Sayeh were wounded and all hostages were rescued. Akache died later in hospital. in Mogadishu International Airport, Mogadishu, Banadir, Somalia. Two hijackers were killed all hostages are rescued.

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(-) 45 years ago Wednesday 18th of October 1978 Catalan communist and assassin Ramón Mercader, originally Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río aka Jacques Mornard aka Frank Jacson known for the assassination of Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. Mercader is buried under the name Ramon Ivanovich Lopez in Moscow's Kuntsevo Cemetery.

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(x) 40 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 1983 Four skeletonised victims of 31-year-old Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer are found in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 18th of October 1991 Murderer Michael Van McDougall is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 19 years ago They Were Lured into an Ambulance Monday 18th of October 2004 Tamil brigand and dacoit Veerappan, originally Koose Munisamy Veerappan Gounder and two of his associates are killed by the K Special Task Force at the age of 52 in Papparapatti, Tamil Nadu, India. Veerappan and his men were lured into an ambulance by an undercover policeman under the pretext of taking them to Dharmapuri for medical treatment. The Tamil Nadu Special Task Force surrounded the ambulance and the gangsters were killed in the ensuing gunfight.

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(x) 18 years ago Tuesday 18th of October 2005 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs '2 Throatstuckers' with Hanggai throatsinger Yilichi in 2 Kolegas Bar, 21 Liangmaqiao Lu, Chaoyang, Beijing, Hebei, China. A music performance using only voices with Hanggai throatsinger Yilichi.

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