Tuesday, September 24, 2024

39th year - N° 268 Tuesday, 24 September 2024

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39th year - N° 268 Tuesday, 24 September 2024

24 September / Today's 23 Events:
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483 years ago

Wednesday 24th of September 1541

Physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer and occultist Paracelsus, originally Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim dies of chronic mercury intoxication at the age of 48 in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.


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299 years ago

Monday 24th of September 1725

Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness is born in Ardclough, Leinster, Ireland.


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128 years ago

Thursday 24th of September 1896

Writer Scott F. Francis Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States.


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122 years ago

Wednesday 24th of September 1902

Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini is born in Khūmaīn, Iran.


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113 years ago

Sunday 24th of September 1911

Soviet leader Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko is born in Bolshaya Tes, Russia.


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112 years ago

Tuesday 24th of September 1912

Murderer Chester S. Jordan is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Charlestown State Prison, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.


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101 years ago

Monday 24th of September 1923

Paul Bronichewski is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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88 years ago

Thursday 24th of September 1936

Puppeteer, cartoonist, screenwriter and film director Jim James Maury Henson known for creating The Muppets is born in Greenville, Mississippi, United States.


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86 years ago

Saturday 24th of September 1938

Serial killer Joe Joseph D. Ball aka The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 46 in The Sociable Inn, Farm to Market Road 327, Elmendorf, Texas, United States.

Ball is known to have killed two and said to have killed as many as 20 women whose remains were fed to his five pet alligators. When two Bexar County sheriff's deputies went to question him, Ball pulled a handgun from his cash register and killed himself with a bullet through the heart.


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79 years ago

Monday 24th of September 1945

Physicist Hans Johannes Wilhelm 'Gengar' Geiger known for inventing the Geiger counter dies of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 63 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.


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50 years ago

Tuesday 24th of September 1974

47-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.


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44 years ago

Wednesday 24th of September 1980

Upadhya Anadavathy Bandara is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Chapel Lane, Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Neighbour Valerie Nicholas heard a noise and came out her back door to investigate and then called the police. Sutcliffe was disturbed and quickly left the scene. Bandara survived.


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42 years ago

Friday 24th of September 1982

Noise music band Club Moral play their 19th concert in Pommeranz, Ginnekenweg 8, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.


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34 years ago

Monday 24th of September 1990

David C. Thomas is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.


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31 years ago There Was a Nail in the Rear Tyre

Friday 24th of September 1993

White Power punk rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson dies in hospital from injuries suffered in a car crash the day before at the age of 36 in Toyota Island, Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.

23-year-old Skrewdriver band member Stephen Flint died on arrival. According to some sources Donaldson's car crash bore all the hallmarks of a Mossad operation. There was a nail in the rear tyre of his vehicle causing a slow leakage of air and the front shock absorber was also leaking.


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29 years ago

Sunday 24th of September 1995

Spree killer Éric Borel commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 17 in Solliès-Pont, Provence, France.

Borel first shot his stepfather Yves Bichet, his 11-year-old half-brother Jean-Yves Bichet. Then he went to the neighbouring village of Cuers and shot dead 12 people with a .22 rifle.


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25 years ago

Friday 24th of September 1999

Double murderer Harvey Lee Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.


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23 years ago NL Lost its Centrum

Monday 24th of September 2001

Artist and event organiser Franz Ferdinand Feigl dies of cancer at the age of 43 in Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Jan Tooropstraat 164, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.


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22 years ago He Wanted to Be an Olive Tree

Tuesday 24th of September 2002

Multiple child murderer Robert Anthony Bob Buell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

Buell's final meal request was for a single black unpitted olive. Buell was paying homage to to Victor Feguer, the last prisoner executed by the federal government until Timothy McVeigh. Feguer was hanged in 1963. His last meal was an olive with the pit still in it. Feguer told prison officials that he hoped an olive tree would sprout from his body – a sign of peace.



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22 years ago They Were Not Going to Turn it Down

Tuesday 24th of September 2002

Double murderer Rex Warren Mays is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

On 20 July 1992 Mays asked his neighbour children 10-year-old Kristin Michelle Wiley and 7-year-old Kynara Lorin Carreiro to lower the volume on their stereo. Kynara answered "No, we're not going to turn it down! Just get out of the house!" Then Mays began stabbing both girls with a knife he took from the kitchen. Mays' last meal request was for six scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, cream gravy, hash browns, pan sausage, orange juice, and milk.

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20 years ago

Friday 24th of September 2004

Writer Françoise Sagan, originally Françoise Quoirez dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 69 in Honfleur, Basse-Normandie, France.



19 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 24th of September 2005

An army of DDVs in an art installation at the Convergence exhibition in 798 Art District, Dashanzi, Beijing, Hebei, China.


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15 years ago

Thursday 24th of September 2009

Member of the 'Manson Family' Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz dies of brain cancer at the age of 61 in Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla, California, United States.


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