39th year - N° 290 Wednesday, 16 October 2024

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39th year - N° 290 Wednesday, 16 October 2024

16 October / Today's 42 Events:

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(-) 471 years ago Friday 16th of October 1553 Painter Lucas Cranach der Ältere, originally Lucas Maler dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in Cranachhaus, Marktplatz 10, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(-) 433 years ago Wednesday 16th of October 1591 229th Pope Gregorius XIV, originally Niccolò Sfondrato dies of gallstones at the age of 56 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 316 years ago Tuesday 16th of October 1708 Anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet Albrecht von Haller aka The Father of Modern Physiology is born in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(-) 233 years ago He Began to Feast Once Again Sunday 16th of October 1791 Russian military leader and statesman Grigory Potemkin, originally Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski dies of fever at the age of 52 in Iași, Moldavia, Romania. Supposedly Potemkin overate on a ham, a slated goose and three or four chickens.

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(-) 231 years ago Elle Était l'Autrichienne Wednesday 16th of October 1793 Excessive Queen consort of France and Navarre Marie Antoinette, originally Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Place de la Révolution, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Marie Antoinette was accused of orchestrating orgies in Versailles, sending millions of livres of treasury money to Austria, plotting to kill the Duke of Orléans, orchestrating the massacre of the Swiss Guards in 1792, declaring her son to be the new king of France, and sexual abuse of her son Louis Charles. Marie Antoinette was declared guilty of treason and condemned to death.

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(-) 225 years ago Wednesday 16th of October 1799 Composer Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick dies of unknown causes at the age of 44 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 178 years ago It Was Ether Day Friday 16th of October 1846 After administration of ether by local dentist William Thomas Green Morton, MGH Chief of Surgery, John Collins Warren painlessly removed a tumor from the neck of local printer Edward Gilbert Abbott in Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Since then the date is known as 'Ether Day'.

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(+) 170 years ago Monday 16th of October 1854 Poet and writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is born in 21 Westland Row, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(+) 152 years ago Wednesday 16th of October 1872 Circus acrobat and fantasist Otto Witte known for claiming to be the King of Albania is born in Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 143 years ago Sunday 16th of October 1881 Writer Pelham Grenville Wodehouse aka Plum is born in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 138 years ago Saturday 16th of October 1886 First Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion, originally David Grün aka Israel's Founding Father is born in Wspólna Street, Płońsk, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.

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(x) 136 years ago Tuesday 16th of October 1888 Unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper mails a human kidney, ripped from the body of Catherine Eddowes, "From Hell" to George Lusk, head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 116 years ago Friday 16th of October 1908 First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Halil Hoxha is born in Hodza House, Rruga Hysen Hoxha 3, Gjirokastër, Qarku i Gjirokastrës, Albania.

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(+) 115 years ago Saturday 16th of October 1909 SS-Obersturmbannführer Ernst Boje Ehlers aka der Endlöser von Belgien is born in Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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(+) 115 years ago Saturday 16th of October 1909 Murderer Rainey Bethea is born in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Bethea became the last person to be publicly executed in the United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Sunday 16th of October 1927 Writer and playwright Günter Wilhelm Grass known for Die Blechtrommel is born in Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

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(-) 93 years ago She Mailed Them in a Trunk Friday 16th of October 1931 Hedvig Sarah Samuelson aka Sammy is stabbed and shot dead by murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Judd also killed Agnes Anne LeRoi in the same event. Judd cut the bodies in pieces and mailed them in trunks to Los Angeles, where they were discovered 3 days later, blood seeping from one of them.

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(+) 92 years ago Sunday 16th of October 1932 Präsident der Treuhandanstalt Detlev Karsten Rohwedder is born in Bahnhofstraße, Gotha, Thüringen, Germany.

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(x) 90 years ago They Had a Long Way to Go Tuesday 16th of October 1934 130.000 soldiers of the First Red Army, which included the leaders of the Communist Party of China, and civilians led by Bo Gu and Otto Braun begin the Long March and the ascent to power of 41-year-old Communist revolutionary and father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong aka Mao Tse-Tung aka Chairman Mao in Yudu, Jiangxi, China. The Communists traversed over 9.000 kilometers in 370 days under the  command of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.

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(+) 88 years ago He Grew Up in the Grip of Mass Famine Friday 16th of October 1936 Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is born in Yabluchne, Sums'ka Oblast, Ukraine.

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(-) 87 years ago Saturday 16th of October 1937 Roger LeBlond is shot in the head by kidnapper and multiple murderer Eugen Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 86 years ago Sunday 16th of October 1938 Nico, originally Christa Päffgen aka Das Einsame Mädchen is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 78 years ago He Hanged Those Ten Nazis Wednesday 16th of October 1946 Nazi leaders 53-year-old Joachim Von Ribbentrop, 64-year-old Wilhelm Keitel, 45-year-old Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 53-year-old Alfred Rosenberg, 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick, 47-year-old Hans Frank, 61-year-old Julius Streicher, 52-year-old Fritz Sauckel, 54-year-old Alfred Jodl and 54-year-old Arthur Seiss-Inquart are executed by hanging for crimes against humanity by 35-year-old Executioner John Clarence Woods in Zellengefängnis Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. Woods may have miscalculated the lengths for the ropes used for the executions such that some of the men did not die quickly of an intended broken neck but instead strangled to death slowly. Additionally the trapdoor was too small such that several of the condemned suffered bleeding head injuries when they hit the sides of the trapdoor while dropping through.

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(-) 78 years ago Wednesday 16th of October 1946 Sex killer Neville Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 69 years ago Sunday 16th of October 1955 Irish republican hunger striker Kieran Doherty, originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 65 years ago Friday 16th of October 1959 20-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 61 years ago Wednesday 16th of October 1963 Victim of Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho David Samuel Madson is born in Waterloo, Iowa, United States.

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(x) 54 years ago Some of the Girls Were Sobbing Friday 16th of October 1970 32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 34. Aktion in Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, New York, United States. Nitsch' 34. Aktion lasted two hours. The 'exhibition,' as it was also dubbed, was observed at first by about 300 students, but after the actual work on the carcass began, the number dwindled to barely half that figure. During the show, several students became ill. Some of the girls in the crowd were sobbing.

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(-) 50 years ago Wednesday 16th of October 1974 35-year-old Karen Wine and her 16-year-old daughter Dawn are raped and strangled by 28-year-old Serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Marlborough, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 43 years ago He Lost His Eye Patch Friday 16th of October 1981 Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Kitaigorodsky Dayan dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Tel Aviv, Gush Dan, Israel. In 2005 Dayan's eye patch was offered for sale on Ebay with a starting bid of 75.000 U.S. dollars.

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(-) 39 years ago It Turned Out to Be More Than Getting a Tooth Pulled Wednesday 16th of October 1985 Murderer William E. Vandiver is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Indiana State Prison, 1 Park Row, Michigan City, Indiana, United States. Vandiver was still breathing after the first administration of 2.300 volts and the current had to be applied three more times before he died.

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(-) 33 years ago It Was Payback Day Wednesday 16th of October 1991 Mass murderer George Jo Hennard, originally Georges Pierre Hennard commits suicide a shot in the head at the age of 35 in Luby's Cafeteria, Killeen, Texas, United States. Hennard drove his blue 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the plate-glass front window of the cafetaria while yelling "All women of Killeen and Belton are vipers! This is what you've done to me and my family! This is what Bell County did to me...This is payback day!" Hennard then opened fire with both a 9mm Glock 17 pistol and a 9mm Ruger P89 pistol killing 23 people and wounding another 27.

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(x) 29 years ago Monday 16th of October 1995 A Syrian general practitioner is wounded by a bomb sent by 46-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Stronsdorf, Niederösterreich, Austria. In all Fuchs sent out three mail bombs that day. At the Poysdorf post office 71-year-old Maria Loley is injured while opening a package. In Mistelbach a South-Korean doctor escapes another mail bomb.

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(x) 29 years ago Monday 16th of October 1995 43-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Knut Detlef Folkerts is released from prison in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 28 years ago She Was at Peace Wednesday 16th of October 1996 Sharon Rina Lopatka, originally Sharon Denburg is tortured and strangled by murderer Robert Frederick Glass aka Slowhand in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States. Lopatka met Glass in an internet chatroom and agreed to be killed in a sado-masochistic sex encounter.

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(x) 28 years ago Wednesday 16th of October 1996 83 die in FIFA World Cup qualification match between Guatemala and Costa Rica stampede in Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala. 47.000 soccer fans tried to squeeze in the 36.000 seat stadium, many having bought counterfeit tickets.

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(x) 27 years ago Thursday 16th of October 1997 39-year-old Serial killer Bai Baoshan is arrested in Beijing, Hebei, China. Baoshan was charged with 14 murders and sent to Xinjiang province for trial.

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(x) 27 years ago Thursday 16th of October 1997 70-year-old Serial killer András Pándy aka Father Bluebeard is arrested in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 27 years ago Thursday 16th of October 1997 Giorgio Centanaro is suffocated by serial killer Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria in Genova, Liguria, Italy.

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(x) 20 years ago Saturday 16th of October 2004 Only child of actor Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi Christian Devi Brando is suffocated by serial killer Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Deborah Presley was an actress who had won the right to be known as daughter of Elvis Presley in 1989 in Tennessee Supreme court. The marriage lasted a short time and was annulled in June 2005.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 16th of October 2005 Drying of fresh corn along the country road in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 16th of October 2009 My sculpture 'The Beast of Jersey', consisting of a wooden box with two large chicken feet jerking in and out randomly on two metal rods connected to an electric motor inside. It dates from the late 1980's and was still alive and kicking in an exhibition in Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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39th year - N° 289 Tuesday, 15 October 2024

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39th year - N° 289 Tuesday, 15 October 2024

15 October / Today's 31 Events:

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(-) 626 years ago Monday 15th of October 1398 202nd Pope Urbanus VI, originally Bartolomeo Prignano dies of injuries suffered in a fall from his mule during a march at the age of 80 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 460 years ago Thursday 15th of October 1564 Anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius, originally Andries van Wesel dies of unknown causes at the age of 50 in Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, .

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(x) 208 years ago Tuesday 15th of October 1816 28-year-old Poet George Gordon Byron aka Lord Byron visits the library to read the love letters of Lucrezia Borgia and steals a lock of her hair in Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Piazza Pio XI 2, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 180 years ago Tuesday 15th of October 1844 Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is born in Pfarrhaus, Röcken, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(-) 107 years ago Monday 15th of October 1917 Exotic dancer, courtesan and spy Margaretha Geertruida 'Margreet' MacLeod Zelle aka Mata Hari is executed by the firing squad at the age of 41 in Château de Vincennes, Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France.

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(+) 104 years ago Friday 15th of October 1920 Writer Mario Gianluigi Puzo known for his novel ‘The Godfather’ is born in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 98 years ago Friday 15th of October 1926 Philosopher Michel Paul Foucault is born in Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes, France.

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(-) 89 years ago Tuesday 15th of October 1935 Murderer John Favorito is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, United States. The executioner is almost knocked out when he touches Favorito's body which was loaded with electric current after the execution.

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(-) 89 years ago Tuesday 15th of October 1935 Murderer Gerald T. 'Jerry' Thompson is executed by Old Smokey at the age of 26 in Joliet Prison, Joliet, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 85 years ago Sunday 15th of October 1939 4-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker is adopted by Stephen and Anna Kallinger in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Kallinger was abused by both his adoptive parents so severely that at age six he suffered a hernia inflicted by his adoptive father. The punishments Kallinger endured included kneeling on jagged rocks, being locked inside closets, consuming excrement, committing self-injury, being burned with irons, being whipped with belts and being starved.

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(+) 84 years ago Tuesday 15th of October 1940 Student Benno Ohnesorg is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 79 years ago The Poison Was Too Old Monday 15th of October 1945 French politician and collaborator Pierre Jean Marie Laval is executed by the firing squad at the age of 62 in Prison de Fresnes, Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, France. On the morning of his execution Laval attempted to cheat the firing squad by taking poison from a vial stitched inside the lining of his jacket. The poison was so old that it was ineffective and repeated stomach-pumpings revived Laval.

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(+) 78 years ago Tuesday 15th of October 1946 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Bernard Rößner is born in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 78 years ago Tuesday 15th of October 1946 Musician Richard Lynn Carpenter is born in Grace-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 78 years ago Tuesday 15th of October 1946 Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring commits suicide by cyanide poisoning at the age of 53 in Justizpalast, Fürther Straße 110, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. In 2005 former U.S. Army Private Herbert Lee Stivers, who served in the 1st Infantry Division's 26th Infantry Regiment - the honour guard for the Nuremberg Trials - claimed he gave Göring "medicine" hidden inside a fountain pen that a German woman had asked him to smuggle into the prison.

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(+) 68 years ago Monday 15th of October 1956 Mass murderer George Jo Hennard, originally Georges Pierre Hennard is born in Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 65 years ago Thursday 15th of October 1959 20-year-old Foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer is discharged from the US Army because of his bizarre obsessions in Fort Gordon, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 62 years ago Monday 15th of October 1962 Serial killer Guy Georges, originally Guy Rampillon aka Le Tueur de la Bastille is born in Vitry-le-François, Seine-et-Marne, France.

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(-) 60 years ago Thursday 15th of October 1964 Composer and songwriter Cole Albert Porter dies of kidney failure at the age of 73 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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(x) 58 years ago Saturday 15th of October 1966 Revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization the Black Panther Party is founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, United States.

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(-) 57 years ago Sunday 15th of October 1967 Unitarian peace activist Florence Beaumont commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 58 in Federal Building, 300 N. Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California, United States. Beaumont was protesting the US involvement in the war in Vietnam. "She was a perfectly normal, dedicated person, and felt she had to do this just like the monks and nuns who burned themselves in Vietnam. This was no suicide. There were no indications of escapism or frustration. This was an immolation, a supreme sacrifice to humanity, to peace and freedom for all mankind."

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(x) 55 years ago Wednesday 15th of October 1969 44-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion nr. 57 / Der Tod der Sharon Tate' with Charlotte Moorman in Kunsthalle, Cäcilienstraße, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 53 years ago Friday 15th of October 1971 Marie-Thérèse Rosseel is stabbed to death, raped and mutilated by serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Muizenhoek 1, Muizen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 52 years ago Sunday 15th of October 1972 Leslie Laura Brock is abducted and bludgeoned to death by serial killer Harvey Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer in Bellingham, Washington, United States.

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(-) 47 years ago Saturday 15th of October 1977 17-year-old Christine Eadie and 17-year-old Helen Scott are beaten, gagged, tied up, raped and strangled by 32-year-old Serial killer Angus Robertson Sinclair aka The World's End Murderer in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. On 25 November 2004 Sinclair's DNA matched. On 31 March 2005 Sinclair was arrested. At a trial in 2007 Sinclair was acquitted by lack of evidence. At a second trial in 14 November 2014 Sinclair was found guilty of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 37 years.

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(x) 42 years ago Friday 15th of October 1982 24-year-old Ralf Erb is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder committed by 22-year-old Serial killer Kurt-Friedhelm Steinwegs aka Die Bestie vom Niederrhein in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 42 years ago Friday 15th of October 1982 36-year-old Serial killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Torso Killer is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Monday 15th of October 1984 Fourth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Centre Paul Hymans, 39 Rue de Naples, Ixelles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. It was the fourth action in their Première Campagne Anti-Impérialiste d'Octobre.

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(-) 38 years ago Wednesday 15th of October 1986 Muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso Jacqueline Roque commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 59 in Villa Notre Dame de la Vie, Avenue Orangeraie, Mougins, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(x) 32 years ago He Kicked His Bench Across His Cage Thursday 15th of October 1992 56-year-old Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is sentenced to death plus 86 years for 52 murders and five counts of sexual assault by Judge Akubzhanov in Courtroom Number 5, ul. Socialist, 164/35, Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Chikatilo kicked his bench across his cage when he heard the verdict and began shouting abuse. However, when given an opportunity to make a speech in response to the verdict he again remained silent.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 15th of October 2002 A stressful audience for the first round of a campaign about the new artist social statute in Zuiderpershuis, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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