41st year - Nr 299 Monday, 26 October 2026

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41st year - Nr 299 Monday, 26 October 2026

26 October / Today's 25 Events:

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(-) 586 years ago Monday 26th of October 1440 Baron, knight, companion-in-arms of Jeanne D'Arc and serial killer of children Gilles de Rais, originally Gilles de Montmorency-Laval aka Gilles de Retz is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Île de Biesse, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. de Rais' body and those of his accomplices Henriet and Poitou, also hanged, are thrown into the fire.

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(+) 341 years ago Friday 26th of October 1685 Baroque composer Domenico Giuseppe Scarlatti is born in Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(-) 167 years ago No Women of Children Were Saved Wednesday 26th of October 1859 459 die in Royal Charter steam clipper shipwreck in Porth Alerth, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. Passengers, including many gold miners were killed by being dashed against the rocks by the waves rather than drowned. Others drowned weighed down by the belts of gold they were wearing around their bodies. The survivors, 21 passengers and 18 crew members were all men, with no women or children saved.

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(x) 145 years ago Wednesday 26th of October 1881 A 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys takes place in O.K. Corral, Tombstone, Arizona, United States. Participants were 38-year-old Town Marshall Virgil, 30-year-old Special Policeman Morgan and 33-year-old Special Policeman Wyatt Earp and 30-year-old temporary policeman Doc Holliday vs. Cowboys 28-year-old Tom and 32-year-old Frank McLaury, 19-year-old Billy and 40-year-old Ike Clanton and 22-year-old Billy Claiborne. Virgil, Morgan and Holliday got wounded an d McLaury and Clanton were killed.

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(x) 128 years ago Il Avait une Balle Dans la Tête Wednesday 26th of October 1898 Start of the trial against 29-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France. Vacher entered the courtroom with "J'ai une balle dans la tête" written on a panel and shouting "Vive Jésus ! Vive Jeanne d'Arc".

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(+) 124 years ago Sunday 26th of October 1902 Phytotherapist and nutritionist Alfred Vogel is born in Aesch, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland.

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(+) 110 years ago Thursday 26th of October 1916 President of the French Republic François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterand is born in Jarnac, Charente, France.

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(+) 107 years ago Sunday 26th of October 1919 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is born in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

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(+) 101 years ago Monday 26th of October 1925 Writer and artist Jan Hendrik Wolkers is born in Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 91 years ago He Shattered Every Window in the Structure Saturday 26th of October 1935 21-year-old Serial bomber Hugh F. 'Idzy' Rutkowski aka The Mad Bomber of Milwaukee places a bomb under a 5-inch sewer in Shorewood City Hall, 3930 N. Murray Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Rutkowski's dynamite bomb tore a hole through the cellar, splintered one of the large columns supporting the roof and shattered every window in the structure.

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(+) 90 years ago Monday 26th of October 1936 Victim of Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Robert George 'Bobby' Calvert is born in Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Sunday 26th of October 1941 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Holger Klaus Meins is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(-) 62 years ago Monday 26th of October 1964 Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Fremantle Prison, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.

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(+) 62 years ago Monday 26th of October 1964 Mass murderer Marc Lépine, originally Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi aka The Women-Hating Rambo is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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(-) 61 years ago Tuesday 26th of October 1965 Victim of Gertrude Baniszewski Sylvia Marie Likens dies of a brain hemorrhage, shock and malnutrition after multiple beatings, burnings and scalding baths by Gertrud Baniszewski at the age of 16 in 3850 East New York Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Baniszewski encouraged neighborhood children to torment Likens, including extinguishing cigarettes on her skin and forcing her to remove her clothes and insert a glass Coca-Cola bottle into her vagina on at least two occasions. Shortly before Likens died Baniszewski began to carve the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it!" into Likens' stomach with a heated needle.

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(-) 54 years ago Thursday 26th of October 1972 Aviation pioneer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Easton, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago He Chose a Suicide Solution Friday 26th of October 1984 Ozzy Osbourne fan John Daniel McCollum commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19 in Indio, California, United States. McCollum had been listening to Ozzy Osbourne singing 'Suicide Solution' all day long. In a lawsuit McCollum’s parents claimed that there were hidden lyrics in the song that incited the teenager to kill himself. A California court dismissed the McCollums’ lawsuit in 1988, ruling that John’s suicide was not a foreseeable result of Osbourne’s song.

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(x) 42 years ago Friday 26th of October 1984 0-year-old Baby Fae, originally Stephanie Fae Beauclair known for becoming the first infant receiving the heart of a baboon has a baboon heart transplanted in the first successful infant heart transplant by Dr. Leonard Lee Bailey in Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States. Baby Fae lived for 21 days with the baboon heart.

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(x) 41 years ago Saturday 26th of October 1985 Noise music band Club Moral play their 48th concert at the Bath festival in De Media, Molenstraat 31, Eeklo, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 41 years ago Saturday 26th of October 1985 Noise music band Club Moral perform their 47th concert at La Nuit Erotique in Vooruit, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 31 years ago Thursday 26th of October 1995 45-year-old Serial killer William Lester Suff, originally Bill Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer is condemned to death for 12 murders in Riverside, California, United States. Suff resides on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

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(x) 24 years ago Saturday 26th of October 2002 After three days of occupation by 40 Chechnen terrorists involving 850 hostages operators from Federal Security Service (FSB) aka Spetsnaz brigade storm the building in Dubrovka Theatre, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. All 40 of the terrorists were killed and up to 204 hostages died during the siege due to poisoning by gas pumped into the ventilation system during the rescue operation. The identity of the gas was never disclosed, although it is believed by some to have been a fentanyl derivative such as carfentanil.

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(-) 22 years ago Tuesday 26th of October 2004 Murderer Dominique Jerome Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 26th of October 2005 The Art Farm landlord posing proudly before its gate in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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(x) 19 years ago Friday 26th of October 2007 Noise music band Club Moral play their 129th concert in De Resoor, Sluisberg 9, Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium.

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41st year - Nr 298 Sunday, 25 October 2026

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41st year - Nr 298 Sunday, 25 October 2026

25 October / Today's 29 Events:

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(+) 188 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1838 Composer Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet known for Carmen is born in 26 Rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 162 years ago He Was no Veg-O-Matic Tuesday 25th of October 1864 Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 147 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1879 Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 145 years ago Tuesday 25th of October 1881 Artist Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso is born in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.

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(+) 132 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1894 Surrealist photographer, sculptor and writer Claude Cahun, originally Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob is born in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France.

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(x) 132 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1894 13-year-old Alice Etta and 10-year-old Nellie Rosa Pitezel are gassed and stuffed in a trunk by 33-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor in 16 St. Vincent Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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(+) 113 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1913 SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Nikolaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon is born in Bad Godesberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 106 years ago Food Was Often Placed Near Him Monday 25th of October 1920 Irish republican hunger striker Terence James MacSwiney, originally Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne dies after 73 days of hungerstriking at the age of 41 in Brixton Prison, Lambeth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.

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(-) 103 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1923 Hermann Wolf 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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(x) 97 years ago Friday 25th of October 1929 Hubertine Meurer is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Hellweg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Passersby found Meurer and took her to the hospital.

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(x) 97 years ago Friday 25th of October 1929 Klara Wanders is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Ananasberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Wanders was raped and hit with a hammer several times. The hammer broke and flew into the bush where Kürten couldn't find it anymore.

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(+) 90 years ago Sunday 25th of October 1936 Serial killer Arnfinn Nesset is born in Trøndelag, Norway.

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(-) 85 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1941 Painter Robert Delaunay known for founding the Orphism art movement dies of cancer at the age of 56 in Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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(-) 83 years ago Monday 25th of October 1943 Murderer Ruffie Lundon is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

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(-) 69 years ago Friday 25th of October 1957 Mobster and hitman Albert Anastasia, originally Umberto Anastasio aka The One-Man Army is sprayed with bullets by two men with scarves covering their faces at the age of 55 in Park Sheraton Hotel Barber Shop, 56th Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. No one was ever charged with Anastasia's murder.

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(+) 69 years ago Friday 25th of October 1957 Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Donna Ann Lauria is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 69 years ago Friday 25th of October 1957 Painter, architect and interior designer Henry Clemens Van de Velde dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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(+) 66 years ago Tuesday 25th of October 1960 Murderer and necrophiliac William Hamilton Little is born in Harris County, Texas, United States.

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(-) 61 years ago Monday 25th of October 1965 Teresa Tosza is strangled by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

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(-) 53 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1973 Olympic marathon champion Abebe Bikila known for winning an Olympic marathon while running barefoot dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 41 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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(x) 46 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1980 Maureen Lea is battered with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Lea survived.

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(-) 36 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1990 Brunhilde Masser is stabbed and strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Masser's body was found on 5 January 1991.

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(-) 33 years ago Monday 25th of October 1993 Actor Vincent Leonard Price dies of lung cancer at the age of 82 in UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1997 Robin M. Atkins is asphyxiated by serial killer Alfred Gaynor aka The Springfield Strangler in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 25th of October 2002 Our oldskool kitchen as core of a dinner party in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 22 years ago Was the Day that Music Died Monday 25th of October 2004 Disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist John Peel, originally John Robert Parker Ravenscroft dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Cusco, Cusco, Peru.

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(-) 21 years ago Tuesday 25th of October 2005 Mass murderer Willie James 'Flip' Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 20 years ago Wednesday 25th of October 2006 Serial killer Danny Harold Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

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(-) 20 years ago Wednesday 25th of October 2006 Murderer Gregory Lynn Summers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Summers' last meal request was for salad, onion rings, chili dogs, and sweet iced tea.

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