41st year - Nr 256 Sunday, 13 September 2026

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41st year - Nr 256 Sunday, 13 September 2026

13 September / Today's 31 Events:

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(-) 705 years ago He Didn't Look Behind to Walk a Backward Path Saturday 13th of September 1321 Poet and writer Dante Alighieri, originally Durante degli Alighieri aka Il Sommo Poeta dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 551 years ago Monday 13th of September 1475 Duke of Valentinois Cesare Borgia is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy. According to some sources Borgia was born in April 1476. He was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja aka Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei.

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(+) 151 years ago War Ein Verklärte Tag Monday 13th of September 1875 Composer Arnold Schönberg is born in Obere Donaustraße 5, Leopoldstadt, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 122 years ago Tuesday 13th of September 1904 Mother of Martin Luther King Alberta Williams King is born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 110 years ago He Was not Unexpected Wednesday 13th of September 1916 Writer Roald Dahl known for his Tales of the Unexpected is born in Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(x) 95 years ago Sunday 13th of September 1931 24 people die and 120 others are injured in a bomb-attack and subsequent derailment of the Nachtschnellzuges Budapest–Wien by 39-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker in Biatorbágy, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

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(+) 82 years ago Wednesday 13th of September 1944 Actress Jacqueline Winifred Fraser Bisset is born in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 80 years ago Friday 13th of September 1946 Murderer Kenneth W. M. Bailey is executed by the gas chamber in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Saturday 13th of September 1947 Victim of Theodore Kaczynski aka The Unabomber Hugh Campbell Scrutton is born in Sacramento, California, United States.

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(+) 70 years ago Thursday 13th of September 1956 Irish republican hunger striker Martin Edward Hurson, originally Mairtin O hUrsain is born in Cappagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 68 years ago Saturday 13th of September 1958 Serial killer Daniel Lee Corwin is born in Orange County, California, United States.

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(+) 63 years ago Friday 13th of September 1963 Serial killer Rex Andrew Heuermann known for the Gilgo Beach killings is born in Massapequa Park, New York, United States.

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(x) 60 years ago Tuesday 13th of September 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Ten Rounds for Cassius Clay' with Günter Brus and Susan Khan at the 'Destruction In Art Symposium' in St Bride Institute, Bride Lane, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 60 years ago Tuesday 13th of September 1966 Ursula Rohling is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Försterbusch, Marl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 59 years ago He Chose an Honourable Death Wednesday 13th of September 1967 War leader Abdel Hakim Mohamed Amer commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 48 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt. Amer was approached by high-ranking Egyptian officers and was given a choice to stand trial for treason, which would inevitably have ended with his conviction and execution, or die an honourable death by taking poison. Amer chose the latter option and received a full military burial.

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(x) 59 years ago Wednesday 13th of September 1967 Dora 'Betje' Woortmeijer is robbed and beaten by serial killer Hans van Zon in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. Woortmeijer survived and led to van Zon's arrest on 13 December 1967.

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(x) 55 years ago Monday 13th of September 1971 After 4 days of riots 63-year-old Businessman, philanthropist, public servant and politician Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller orders New York State Police troopers and former prison officers to drop tear gas and retake the prison in Attica Prison, Attica, New York, United States. The troopers opened fire non-stop for two minutes into the smoke. By the time the facility was retaken, nine hostages and 29 inmates had been killed.

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(x) 52 years ago Friday 13th of September 1974 The imprisoned members of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe start their third hungerstrike in several prisons, announced by Ulrike Meinhof while she stood trial for the freeing of Andreas Baader in Königliche Untersuchungsgefängnis, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 51 years ago Saturday 13th of September 1975 Liane Woessner is beaten to death with a hammer by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka Der Hammermörder in Bruchsal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 46 years ago Saturday 13th of September 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Simpletones in de Bajes' with The Simpletones in an old prison in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. The performance happened in a cell of an old prison and the audience had to look through the spy-hole to see anything. While the Simpletones played their music I tried to pull myself upside down all the time by use of a pulley. After about one and a half hour the door of the cell opened and I threw up in the hallway.

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(x) 42 years ago Thursday 13th of September 1984 Start of the trial against 32-year-old Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 42 years ago Thursday 13th of September 1984 48-year-old Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is arrested and charged with theft in Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia. At the trial three weeks later Chikatilo was released due to lack of evidence.

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(-) 31 years ago He Gave Them the Finger Wednesday 13th of September 1995 Murderer Jimmie Wayne Jeffers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Jeffers had a last meal request for 3 pounds of prime rib, cooked medium rare; a pound of king crab legs; and three lobster tails complete with drawn butter, but prison officials called the request unreasonable due to issues of quantity and availability. Instead he got a 10 ounce steak, peas, rolls with butter, one baked potato with shredded Cheddar cheese, strawberry pie with whipped cream and a large chocolate malt. Before his execution Jeffers let loose a string of obscenities and gave his executioners the finger.

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(-) 30 years ago Friday 13th of September 1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac dies of internal bleeding at the age of 25 in University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Shakur had been shot several times in the chest, pelvis, and his right hand and thigh in a drive-by shooting on 7 September.

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25 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 13th of September 2001 A warning sign in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 19 years ago Thursday 13th of September 2007 Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial killer Alexander Yuryevich 'Sasha' Pichushkin aka The Chessboard Killer aka The Bitsa Park Maniac in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. Pichushkin asked a Russian court to add an additional 11 victims to his body count, bringing his claimed death toll to 60, and 3 surviving victims.

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(-) 15 years ago Tuesday 13th of September 2011 Pop artist Richard William Hamilton dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 89 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 13th of September 2014 AMVK in front of a painting by Richard Serra in Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 11 years ago Sunday 13th of September 2015 Noise music band Club Moral play their 145th concert on the occasion of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK's exhibition 'Love Shack' in Le Parvis de Bagnolet, 27 Rue Adélaïde Lahaye, Bagnolet, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 4 years ago Il Était À Bout de Souffle Tuesday 13th of September 2022 Film director Jean-Luc Godard aka the Father of the Nouvelle Vague film movement dies of assisted suicide at the age of 92 in Rolle, Vaud, Switzerland.

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(-) 3 years ago Wednesday 13th of September 2023 Singer-songwriter Roger Whittaker dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 87 in Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

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41st year - Nr 255 Saturday, 12 September 2026

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41st year - Nr 255 Saturday, 12 September 2026

12 September / Today's 23 Events:

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(-) 664 years ago Sunday 12th of September 1362 199th Pope Innocentius VI, originally Étienne Aubert dies of unknown causes at the age of 80 in Palais des Papes, Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(x) 169 years ago Saturday 12th of September 1857 425 die in SS Central America aka the Ship of Gold sinking in Blake Plateau, South Carolina, United States. The ship sank in a hurricane along with more than 550 passengers and crew and 14.000 kgs of gold on board.

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(+) 138 years ago Wednesday 12th of September 1888 Actor, singer and entertainer Maurice Auguste Chevalier is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 134 years ago Monday 12th of September 1892 19-year-old Crime matriarch Ma Kate Barker, originally Arizona Donnie Clark marries George Elias Barker in Aurora, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 113 years ago Friday 12th of September 1913 Black Olympic legend Jesse James Cleveland Owens is born in Aurora, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 105 years ago Monday 12th of September 1921 Science fiction writer Stanisław Lem known for his philosophical science fiction novel Solaris is born in House #4, Bohdana Lepkogo, Lwów, Lwów Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 85 years ago Friday 12th of September 1941 Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank Christiane Herreman is born in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 82 years ago Tuesday 12th of September 1944 Singer-songwriter Barry White, originally Barry Eugene Carter aka The Walrus of Love is born in Galveston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Wednesday 12th of September 1951 Serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano, originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury is born in Schenectady, New York, United States. Stano's natural mother neglected him to such an extent that when she finally gave him up for adoption when he was six months old, county doctors declared him unadoptable because he was functioning at what they described as 'an animalistic level', even ingesting his own faeces to survive.

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(+) 70 years ago His Parents Were not at Home Wednesday 12th of September 1956 Singer-songwriter Leslie Cheung, originally Cheung Fat Chung aka Gor-Gor (Elder Brother) is born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.

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(x) 60 years ago Monday 12th of September 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Breath – Exercises' with Günter Brus at the 'Destruction In Art Symposium' in Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 58 years ago Thursday 12th of September 1968 Accountant and Home Army resistance member Ryszard Siwiec dies of injuries due to self-immolation on 8 September at the age of 59 in Stadion Dziesięciolecia, Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland. Siwiec was the first person to commit suicide by self-immolation in protest against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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(x) 53 years ago the Night Wasn't Soft Wednesday 12th of September 1973 27-year-old Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Through the Night Softly' in Main Street, Los Angeles, California, United States. Burden's 'Through the Night Softly' was aired as a commercial on a local Los Angeles television channel.

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(-) 49 years ago Monday 12th of September 1977 Anti-apartheid activist Steve Stephen Bantu Biko dies of a brain hemorrhage from massive injuries to the head at the age of 31 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated and tortured in a coma for 22 hours by police officers Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt in Police Room 619 in Port Elizabeth Walmer Police Station on 18 August 1977. On 11 September police loaded Biko in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities. Biko was ne arly dead owing to the previous injuries and died shortly after arrival at the Pretoria prison.

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(x) 46 years ago Friday 12th of September 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'I Wanna Be Injured', 'Gibt Mir Dein Hand', 'I'm Suffocating', 'Power-Drill!' and 'Out' with The Simpletones in an exhibition of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Art Something, Herengracht 259, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 36 years ago Wednesday 12th of September 1990 Double murderer Charles Walker is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, United States. Walker's execution was considered botched because the lethal injection machine wasn't able to make the drugs go through the kinked lines.

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(-) 34 years ago Saturday 12th of September 1992 Actor Anthony Perkins known for portraying Norman Bates in the movie ‘Psycho’ dies of AIDS at the age of 60 in 2840 Seattle Drive, Hollywood Hills, California, United States. Perkins' 53-year-old former wife Berry Berenson was a passenger on one of the planes which crashed into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.

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(-) 32 years ago Monday 12th of September 1994 Army veteran and suicide pilot Frank Eugene Corder commits suicide by an airplane crash at the age of 38 in South Lawn of the White House, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Corder stole a Cessna 150 the night before and departed from Aldino Airport in Maryland while severely intoxicated, which is presumed to have led to his later miscalculation to crash into the South Lawn instead of the White House itself.

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(-) 23 years ago Friday 12th of September 2003 Double murderer Henry Lee Hunt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Hunt's last meal was a medium Domino's pizza with pepperoni, hamburger, Canadian bacon, sausage, onions, mushrooms and green peppers, and a 20-ounce Coke. Hunt's last words were "It's a good day to die."

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(-) 23 years ago He Dressed in Black Friday 12th of September 2003 Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black dies of complications from diabetes at the age of 71 in Baptist Hospital, 2000 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 12th of September 2005 A village style restaurant serving excellent intestine dishes in 798 Art District, Dashanzi, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(-) 20 years ago Tuesday 12th of September 2006 Double murderer Farley Charles Matchett is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Matchett had a final meal request of four olives and a bottle of wild-berry flavored water. Actress Brigitte Bardot sent an open letter to Texas governor Rick Perry asking him to pardon Matchett before he was executed.

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(-) 16 years ago Sunday 12th of September 2010 Film director Claude Henri Jean Chabrol dies of unknown causes at the age of 80 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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