41st year - Nr 250 Monday, 7 September 2026

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41st year - Nr 250 Monday, 7 September 2026

7 September / Today's 28 Events:

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(x) 150 years ago He Was on His Own Thursday 7th of September 1876 17-year-old Murderer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster is transferred from the Suffolk County Jail in Charlestown State Prison, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States. Pomeroy spent 40 years in solitary confinement.

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(+) 132 years ago Friday 7th of September 1894 Wife and muse of Salvador Dalí Gala Dalí, originally Elena Ivanovna Diakonova is born in Kazan, Kazan Governorate, Russia.

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(+) 126 years ago Friday 7th of September 1900 Assassin Giuseppe Zangara is born in Ferruzzano, Calabria, Italy.

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(-) 117 years ago He Dropped to the Ground Tuesday 7th of September 1909 Aviation pioneer Eugène Lefebvre known for becoming the first man to die in an engine-powered aircraft dies in a crash when the plane he was testing dropped to the ground at the age of 31 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 117 years ago Tuesday 7th of September 1909 Film director Elia Kazan, originally Elias Kazantzoglou is born in Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey.

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(x) 115 years ago Thursday 7th of September 1911 31-year-old Surrealist writer Guillaume Apollinaire, originally Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki is arrested and jailed on suspicion of aiding and abetting the theft of the Mona Lisa and a number of Egyptian statuettes from the Louvre in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Apollinaire was released a week later. The thefts were committed by Vincenzo Peruggia to whom Apollinaire gave shelter and Apollinaire voluntarily surrendered a number of stolen statuettes left behind by him.

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(x) 106 years ago Tuesday 7th of September 1920 Several body parts and a charred head, presumed victim(s) of 57-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof are found in Nikolassee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 103 years ago Friday 7th of September 1923 Foundation of the INTERnational POLice organization INTERPOL at the International Criminal Police Congress in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 101 years ago Monday 7th of September 1925 Fashion designer Laura Ashley, originally Laura Mountney is born in 31 Station Terrace, Dowlais, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(x) 97 years ago The Centre of Gravity Was Overly High Saturday 7th of September 1929 138 die in SS Kuru steam ship capsizing in Lake Näsijärvi, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland. The capsizing was mostly due to an overly-high centre of gravity. In 1927 a third deck level had been added without expert help or inspecting the balance of the ship.

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(+) 96 years ago Sunday 7th of September 1930 5th King of Belgium Boudewijn, originally Boudewijn Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha is born in Château du Stuyvenberg, Laeken, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(+) 95 years ago Monday 7th of September 1931 Great Train Robber Bruce Richard Reynolds known for masterminding the 1963 Great Train Robbery is born in Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 90 years ago In Came the Cricket Monday 7th of September 1936 Singer-songwriter and musician Buddy Holly, originally Charles Hardin Holley is born in Lubbock, Texas, United States.

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(x) 86 years ago Saturday 7th of September 1940 Nazi Germany starts 'The Blitz', a series of systematic bombings by the Luftwaffe for 56 of the following 57 days and nights in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 79 years ago Sunday 7th of September 1947 B-52 pilot Arthur Alan 'Bud' Holland aka Bud is born in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Sunday 7th of September 1947 Cop killer Leonel Torres Herrera is born in McAllen, Texas, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Sunday 7th of September 1947 Serial poisoner Graham Fredrick Young aka The St. Albans Poisoner is born in Neasden, London, East London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 78 years ago Tuesday 7th of September 1948 Murderer Alexander Caruthers aka Gus is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 61 years ago Tuesday 7th of September 1965 Mass murderer Frank Vitkovic is born in West Preston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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(-) 48 years ago Six of 32 were digested Thursday 7th of September 1978 Drummer Keith John Moon known from the band The Who dies of an overdose of Heminevrin clomethiazole at the age of 32 in Flat 12, 9 Curzon Square, Mayfair, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. An autopsy determined that there were 32 clomethiazole pills in Moon's system. Six were digested, sufficient to cause his death. Moon's flat at 12 Curzon Place was where Mama Cass died of a heart attack on 29 July 1974.

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(x) 47 years ago They Spent Their Honeymoon in a Trailer on the Prison Grounds Friday 7th of September 1979 34-year-old Leading member of the 'Manson Family' Tex Charles Watson marries 20-year-old Kristin Joan Svege on the prison lawn by John S. Milton, pastor of the First Assembly of God Church in Arroyo Grande, in California Men's Colony, San Luis Obispo, California, United States. Watson and Svege were granted a honeymoon in a trailer on the prison grounds and through conjugal visits the couple managed to have four children. Watson and Svege divorced in 2003.

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(-) 42 years ago Friday 7th of September 1984 Vicky Elliott is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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(-) 31 years ago Thursday 7th of September 1995 Wife of Rudolf Hess Ilse Pröhl dies of unknown causes at the age of 95 in Lilienthal, Niedersachsen, Germany. Pröhl saw Hess for the last time on 10 May 1941 and on his own wish never visited him in prison. „Es würde ihm der Abschied jedes Mal qualvoller werden.“

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(x) 30 years ago Saturday 7th of September 1996 25-year-old Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac is shot twice in the chest, pelvis, and his right hand and thigh in a drive-by shooting in East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane intersection, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Shakur died of internal bleeding six days later. The murder remains unsolved.

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27 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 7th of September 1999 A girl on a bus in Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 23 years ago Sunday 7th of September 2003 Strongman and eccentric Antonio Barichievich aka The Great Antonio dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Barichievich carried "every scrap of paper that had been written about him over the years, news clippings from all over the world, in garbage bags." After his death, discovered among the clippings was a letter from the office of Bill Clinton and old photos of Barichievich with people including Pierre Trudeau, Liza Minnelli, Lee Majors, Sophia Loren and Johnny Carson.

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(x) 20 years ago Thursday 7th of September 2006 The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 57-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Louise Van Houten aka Lulu in California Institution for Women, Chino, California, United States. It was Van Houten's 16th unsuccessful application.

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(x) 16 years ago Tuesday 7th of September 2010 The Criminal Court denies parole to 55-year-old Murderer Mark David Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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