41st year - Nr 267 Thursday, 24 September 2026

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41st year - Nr 267 Thursday, 24 September 2026

24 September / Today's 26 Events:

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(-) 485 years ago Wednesday 24th of September 1541 Physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer and occultist Paracelsus, originally Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim dies of chronic mercury intoxication at the age of 48 in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

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(+) 301 years ago Monday 24th of September 1725 Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness is born in Ardclough, Leinster, Ireland.

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(+) 130 years ago Thursday 24th of September 1896 Writer Scott F. Francis Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States.

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(+) 124 years ago Wednesday 24th of September 1902 Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini is born in Khūmaīn, Iran.

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(+) 115 years ago Sunday 24th of September 1911 Soviet leader Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko is born in Bolshaya Tes, Russia.

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(-) 114 years ago Tuesday 24th of September 1912 Murderer Chester S. Jordan is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Charlestown State Prison, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 103 years ago Monday 24th of September 1923 Paul Bronichewski is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 90 years ago Thursday 24th of September 1936 Puppeteer, cartoonist, screenwriter and film director Jim James Maury Henson known for creating The Muppets is born in Greenville, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 88 years ago Saturday 24th of September 1938 Serial killer Joe Joseph D. Ball aka The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 46 in The Sociable Inn, Farm to Market Road 327, Elmendorf, Texas, United States. Ball is known to have killed two and said to have killed as many as 20 women whose remains were fed to his five pet alligators. When two Bexar County sheriff's deputies went to question him, Ball pulled a handgun from his cash register and killed himself with a bullet through the heart.

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(-) 81 years ago Monday 24th of September 1945 Physicist Hans Johannes Wilhelm 'Gengar' Geiger known for inventing the Geiger counter dies of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 63 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(x) 52 years ago Tuesday 24th of September 1974 47-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 46 years ago Wednesday 24th of September 1980 Upadhya Anadavathy Bandara is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Chapel Lane, Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Neighbour Valerie Nicholas heard a noise and came out her back door to investigate and then called the police. Sutcliffe was disturbed and quickly left the scene. Bandara survived.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 24th of September 1982 Noise music band Club Moral play their 19th concert in Pommeranz, Ginnekenweg 8, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

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(-) 36 years ago Monday 24th of September 1990 David C. Thomas is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago There Was a Nail in the Rear Tyre Friday 24th of September 1993 White Power punk rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson dies in hospital from injuries suffered in a car crash the day before at the age of 36 in Toyota Island, Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. 23-year-old Skrewdriver band member Stephen Flint died on arrival. According to some sources Donaldson's car crash bore all the hallmarks of a Mossad operation. There was a nail in the rear tyre of his vehicle causing a slow leakage of air and the front shock absorber was also leaking.

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(-) 31 years ago Sunday 24th of September 1995 Spree killer Éric Borel commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 17 in Solliès-Pont, Provence, France. Borel first shot his stepfather Yves Bichet, his 11-year-old half-brother Jean-Yves Bichet. Then he went to the neighbouring village of Cuers and shot dead 12 people with a .22 rifle.

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(-) 27 years ago Friday 24th of September 1999 Double murderer Harvey Lee Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago NL Lost its Centrum Monday 24th of September 2001 Artist and event organiser Franz Ferdinand Feigl dies of cancer at the age of 43 in Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Jan Tooropstraat 164, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 24 years ago He Wanted to Be an Olive Tree Tuesday 24th of September 2002 Multiple child murderer Robert Anthony Bob Buell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States. Buell's final meal request was for a single black unpitted olive. Buell was paying homage to to Victor Feguer, the last prisoner executed by the federal government until Timothy McVeigh. Feguer was hanged in 1963. His last meal was an olive with the pit still in it. Feguer told prison officials that he hoped an olive tree would sprout from his body – a sign of peace.

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(-) 24 years ago They Were Not Going to Turn it Down Tuesday 24th of September 2002 Double murderer Rex Warren Mays is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. On 20 July 1992 Mays asked his neighbour children 10-year-old Kristin Michelle Wiley and 7-year-old Kynara Lorin Carreiro to lower the volume on their stereo. Kynara answered "No, we're not going to turn it down! Just get out of the house!" Then Mays began stabbing both girls with a knife he took from the kitchen. Mays' last meal request was for six scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, cream gravy, hash browns, pan sausage, orange juice, and milk.

(-) 22 years ago Friday 24th of September 2004 Writer Françoise Sagan, originally Françoise Quoirez dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 69 in Honfleur, Basse-Normandie, France.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 24th of September 2005 An army of DDVs in an art installation at the Convergence exhibition in 798 Art District, Dashanzi, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(-) 17 years ago Thursday 24th of September 2009 Member of the 'Manson Family' Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz dies of brain cancer at the age of 61 in Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla, California, United States.

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(-) 2 years ago Tuesday 24th of September 2024 Murderer Marcellus Scott Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 56 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States. Williams' last meal request was for served chicken wings and tater tots.

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(-) 2 years ago Tuesday 24th of September 2024 Child killer Travis James Mullis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. On 29 January 2008 Mullis drove his car with his three-month-old son Alijah James in the backseat after he argued with his girlfriend Caren Kohberger. After he parked his car Mullis proceeded to assault his son sexually. When Alijah cried, Mullis strangled the infant, followed by stomping on his head several times, crushing his skull and leading to his death. After he killed Alijah, Mullis disposed of the body by throwing it at the roadside around Seawall Boulevard, Galvesto n.

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(-) 1 years ago Wednesday 24th of September 2025 Attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford Sara Jane Kahn Moore dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 95 in Franklin, Tennessee, United States.

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