Sunday, October 6, 2024

39th year - N° 280 Sunday, 6 October 2024

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39th year - N° 280 Sunday, 6 October 2024

6 October / Today's 27 Events:
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140 years ago

Monday 6th of October 1884

Murderer Thomas Harris is executed by hanging by John Berry at the age of 48 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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140 years ago

Monday 6th of October 1884

Cop killer Thomas Orrock is executed by hanging by John Berry at the age of 21 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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137 years ago

Thursday 6th of October 1887

Urban planner and pioneer of modern architecture Le Corbusier, originally Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.


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132 years ago

Thursday 6th of October 1892

Poet Alfred Tennyson dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Aldworth, Blackdown, West Sussex, United Kingdom.


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117 years ago

Sunday 6th of October 1907

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Alfred Hogrefe is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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111 years ago War Sie Meretlein

Monday 6th of October 1913

Surrealist artist Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim is born in Joachim-Friedrich-Straße 48, Halensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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110 years ago

Tuesday 6th of October 1914

Adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl is born in Larvik, Vestfold, Norway.


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82 years ago

Tuesday 6th of October 1942

Actress and sex symbol Britt Ekland, originally Britt-Marie Eklund is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.


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76 years ago

Wednesday 6th of October 1948

Avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca is born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.


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73 years ago

Saturday 6th of October 1951

Industrialist in food manufacturing Will Keith Kellogg known for Kellogg’s cereals dies of heart failure at the age of 91 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.


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73 years ago

Saturday 6th of October 1951

Victim of Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler Diane A. Wilder is born in Bremerton, Washington, United States.


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62 years ago

Saturday 6th of October 1962

37-year-old Stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist Lenny Bruce, originally Leonard Alfred Schneider is arrested for possession of narcotics in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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62 years ago

Saturday 6th of October 1962

Film director Tod Charles Albert Browning dies of throat cancer at the age of 82 in Malibu, California, United States.


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59 years ago

Wednesday 6th of October 1965

Edward Evans is battered with a hatchet and strangled by serial killers the Moors Murderers aka Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 16 Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.


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55 years ago

Monday 6th of October 1969

The Haymarket Memorial statue is bombed by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in Haymarket Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

The blast broke nearly 100 windows in the neighborhood and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below. The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on 4 May 1970.


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54 years ago

Tuesday 6th of October 1970

The Haymarket Memorial statue is bombed once more by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in Haymarket Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

The statue was rebuilt again and Mayor Richard J. Daley posted a 24‑hour police guard at the statue. This guard cost $67.440 per year. In 1972 it was moved to the lobby of the Central Police Headquarters and in 1976 to the enclosed courtyard of the Chicago police academy.


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52 years ago

Friday 6th of October 1972

208 die in train derailment in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.


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43 years ago

Tuesday 6th of October 1981

3rd President of Egypt Anwar Sadat, originally Muḥammad Anwar as-Sādāt is shot dead during a military parade by a terrorist commando from the Islamic Group led by Lieutenant Khalid Islambouli at the age of 63 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

Sadat and ten others were killed outright or suffered fatal wounds, including Major General Hassan Allam, general from the Omani delegation Khalfan Nasser Mohammed, Eng. Samir Helmy Ibrahim, Al Anba' Samuel, presidential photographer Mohammed Yousuf Rashwan, Saeed Abdel Raouf Bakr, Chinese engineer Zhang Baoyu, as well as the Cuban ambassador to Egypt and a Coptic Orthodox bishop. Twenty-eight were wounded, including Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Irish Defence Minister James Tully and four US military liaison officers.


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37 years ago

Tuesday 6th of October 1987

Estera Epsztejn is attacked by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in Rue Duranti, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Epsztejn survived.


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36 years ago

Thursday 6th of October 1988

Mass murderer Sulejman Talović is born in Cerska, Republika Srpska, Bosnia.


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35 years ago

Friday 6th of October 1989

Actress Bette Ruth Elizabeth Davis dies of breast cancer at the age of 81 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.


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31 years ago He Wasn't Inspired no More

Wednesday 6th of October 1993

Truck driver Larry Lawrence Richard Walters aka Lawnchair Larry aka The Lawn Chair Pilot commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 44 in Angeles National Forest, California, United States.

Walters achieved dubious fame in 1982 when he piloted an aluminium lawn chair attached to 42 helium weather balloons, dubbed 'Inspiration I', 16.000 feet above from San Pedro to Long Beach.


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20 years ago His Last Meal Was One of the Largest

Wednesday 6th of October 2004

Murderer Peter J. Miniel is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Miniel's last meal request was for twenty beef tacos, twenty beef enchiladas, two double cheeseburgers, a pizza with jalapeños, fried chicken, spaghetti with salt, half of a chocolate cake, half of a vanilla cake, cookies and cream ice cream, caramel pecan fudge ice cream, a small fruit cake, two Coca-Colas, two Pepsi-Colas, two root beers and two orange juices. Miniel's last meal was one of the largest to be served on Death Row.


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19 years ago

Thursday 6th of October 2005

Cop killer Ronald Ray Howard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Howard had no last meal request.



18 years ago The Eyes had it

Friday 6th of October 2006

A gun made of cardboard, breadcrumb and shoepolish by multiple murderer Freddy Horion with whom I corresponded from 1987 onwards at the Voorbij Goed & Kwaad exhibition in Museum Dr. Guislain, Jozef Guislainstraat 43, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


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4 years ago

Tuesday 6th of October 2020

Musician Eddie Edward Lodewijk Van Halen aka The Mozart of Rock dies of throat cancer at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, United States.


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2 years ago

Thursday 6th of October 2022

Mass murderer Panya Khamrab known for the Nong Bua Lamphu attack commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 34 in Uthai Sawan Nursery, Na Klang, Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand.

During the day Khamrab stabbed and shot dead at least 24 children and 14 adults in three locations, including his wife and son. An additional 12 people were injured. Earlier on this day Khamrab attended a court session regarding drug offenses and was scheduled to appear for a court hearing on Friday 7 October 2022 in connection with his offenses.


Saturday, October 5, 2024

39th year - N° 279 Saturday, 5 October 2024

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39th year - N° 279 Saturday, 5 October 2024

5 October / Today's 25 Events:
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311 years ago

Thursday 5th of October 1713

Writer and philosopher Denis Diderot is born in Langres, Champagne-Ardenne, France.


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195 years ago

Monday 5th of October 1829

21st President of the United States Chester Alan Arthur is born in Fairfield, Vermont, United States.


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175 years ago

Friday 5th of October 1849

Mass murderer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin is born in Brunstatt, Alsace, France.


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160 years ago

Wednesday 5th of October 1864

Film pioneer Louis Jean Lumière is born in Besançon, Franche-Comté, France.


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144 years ago

Tuesday 5th of October 1880

Composer Jacques Offenbach dies of gout at the age of 61 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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105 years ago

Sunday 5th of October 1919

Actor Donald Henry Pleasence is born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.


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94 years ago

Sunday 5th of October 1930

48 die in R101 Experimental airship crash and fire in Le Clos Marotte, Allonne, Oise, France.

It was Britain's largest aircraft ever and this was it's maiden flight from Cardington to Karachi, India.


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90 years ago

Friday 5th of October 1934

Serial killer Angelo Anthony Buono aka The Hillside Strangler is born in Rochester, New York, United States.


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90 years ago Il Avait Zéro de Conduite

Friday 5th of October 1934

Film director Jean Vigo dies of sepsis due to tuberculosis at the age of 29 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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88 years ago

Monday 5th of October 1936

1st President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel is born in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.


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79 years ago He Entered the Apartment Once Again

Friday 5th of October 1945

Evelyn Peterson is hit on the head with a metal bar by serial killer William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More in Midway Drexel Apartments, 6020 Drexel Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Peterson blacked out from the fierce blow to her head and fell to the ground. Heirens tied her up, quickly left the penthouse and shut the door. Peterson awoke in her apartment to the sounds of Heirens banging on her door. She got up off the floor with her hands still bound and walked to the apartment door and opened it, letting Heirens in. Heirens once again entered the apartment, helping put a blanket around Peterson but not untying her, simply telling her to stay quiet. Heirens then left Peterson and told her he was going to get her some help.


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75 years ago

Wednesday 5th of October 1949

Irish republican hunger striker Michael Gaughan, originally Micheal O Gaibhtheachain is born in Ballina, Connacht, Ireland.


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62 years ago

Friday 5th of October 1962

Murder suspect Walter Quicker commits suicide by hanging at the age of 34 in Walsum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Quicker was thought to be the murderer of Monika Tafel on 4 June. 15 years later Joachim Kroll was to be found the real killer roaming around in Walsum and the Ruhr area.


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48 years ago

Tuesday 5th of October 1976

Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov is born in Tsentaroy, Chechen Republic, Russia.


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43 years ago

Monday 5th of October 1981

36-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company moves into his new apartment in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

In the next 16 months Nilsen would kill three young men and attempt to kill at least five others.


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41 years ago

Wednesday 5th of October 1983

Inventor Earl Silas Tupper known for the Tupperware plastic food container dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in San Jose, Costa Rica.


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40 years ago

Friday 5th of October 1984

Anna Barbier-Ponthus is tortured and strangled by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 10 Rue Saulnier, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Barbier-Ponthus was Paulin's first deadly victim. Earlier that day 91-year-old Germaine Petiot was beaten up in her apartment in Rue Lepic but survived.


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39 years ago

Saturday 5th of October 1985

16-year-old Miss Hungary 1985 Csilla Andrea Molnár is crowned Miss Hungary in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

Molnár was the first Hungarian beauty queen after a 50-year interval. Less than a year later Molnár committed suicide.


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33 years ago

Saturday 5th of October 1991

Elfriede Schrempf is found strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Schrempf was strangled on 7 March 1991.


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30 years ago

Wednesday 5th of October 1994

Double murderer Walter Key Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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30 years ago They Were Dressed in a White, Black or Golden Cape

Wednesday 5th of October 1994

Leader of the l'Ordre International Chevaleresque de Tradition Solaire cult Luc Jouret commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 47 in Les Roches de Cristal, Salvan, Valais, Switzerland.

With Jouret 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple commited suicide or were shot dead. 25 people were found in Les Roches de Cristal in Salvan and 23 at La Rochette in Cheiry, Fribourg. The victims were in most cases dressed in a white, black or golden ritual cape, depending on the degree of initiation. In Salvan the victims were injected or injected themselves with a poison based on curare, opioid and benzodiazepine. In Cheiry 20 victims died of one or more bu llets to the head, two suffocated by a plastic bag around their head and another probably in the same way.


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26 years ago

Monday 5th of October 1998

Murderer Roderick Abeyta is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Nevada State Prison, 3301 E. 5th Street, Carson City, Nevada, United States.


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20 years ago She Refused to Explain How They Had Sexual Relations

Tuesday 5th of October 2004

Double murderer Edward Green aka Peanut is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.



20 years ago The Eyes had it

Tuesday 5th of October 2004

A house for sale in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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3 years ago

Tuesday 5th of October 2021

Triple murderer Ernest Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 61 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States.