39th year - N° 305 Thursday, 31 October 2024

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39th year - N° 305 Thursday, 31 October 2024

31 October / Today's 28 Events:

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(+) 319 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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(+) 161 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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(+) 138 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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(+) 118 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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(-) 111 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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(-) 111 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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(-) 106 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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(+) 104 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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(-) 98 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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(-) 98 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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(+) 95 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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(x) 89 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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(+) 88 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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(-) 86 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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(+) 84 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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(+) 74 years ago Tuesday 31st of October 1950 Architect Zaha Mohammad Hadid is born in Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.

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(+) 70 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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(-) 63 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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(-) 50 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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(-) 48 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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(-) 43 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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(-) 40 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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(-) 31 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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(-) 31 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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(x) 28 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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(x) 25 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.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 31st of October 2005 An uneventful pig tattoo session with Cindy, Miss Moon, the Freak, the Vet, the Keeper and others at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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(-) 4 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.

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39th year - N° 304 Wednesday, 30 October 2024

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39th year - N° 304 Wednesday, 30 October 2024

30 October / Today's 34 Events:

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(-) 1789 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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(+) 289 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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(+) 167 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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(-) 161 years ago Friday 30th of October 1863 Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 153 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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(+) 139 years ago Friday 30th of October 1885 Modernist poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, United States.

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(-) 114 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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(-) 93 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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(+) 92 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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(+) 87 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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(x) 86 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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(-) 83 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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(+) 75 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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(-) 58 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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(+) 58 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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(-) 56 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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(-) 55 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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(x) 54 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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(-) 49 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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(-) 47 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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(-) 45 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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(x) 43 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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(-) 43 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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(-) 42 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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(-) 40 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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(x) 39 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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(-) 34 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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(-) 34 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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(-) 27 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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(x) 20 years ago Saturday 30th of October 2004 Noise music band Club Moral play their 108th concert in De Kroon, Kerkstraat 91, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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19 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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(-) 15 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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(-) 6 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.

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(x) 2 years ago Sunday 30th of October 2022 141 die in bridge collapse in Jhulto Pul Suspension Bridge, Morbi, Gujarat, India. The 19th-century bridge had reopened four days earlier in time for Diwali and the Gujarati New Year following a lengthy closure for repairs.

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