41st year - Nr 284 Sunday, 11 October 2026

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41st year - Nr 284 Sunday, 11 October 2026

11 October / Today's 26 Events:

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(+) 287 years ago Sunday 11th of October 1739 Russian military leader and statesman Grigory Potemkin, originally Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski is born in Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 154 years ago Friday 11th of October 1872 Heroine of the women's suffrage movement Emily Wilding Davison is born in Blackheath, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 141 years ago Sunday 11th of October 1885 Writer, dramatist, critic, poet and journalist François Charles Mauriac is born in 86 Rue du Pas-Saint-Georges, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.

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(+) 134 years ago Tuesday 11th of October 1892 Presumed murderer Colin Campbell Ross aka the Gun Alley Murderer is born in North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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(-) 130 years ago Sunday 11th of October 1896 Composer Anton Bruckner dies of unknown causes at the age of 72 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 105 years ago Tuesday 11th of October 1921 Black Wylie McNeely is lynched by burning at the stake for insulting a white woman at the age of 19 in Leesburg, Texas, United States.

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(-) 97 years ago Friday 11th of October 1929 Elisabeth Dörrier is beaten to death with a hammer by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Torfbruch, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 92 years ago Thursday 11th of October 1934 Tilda Erika Mathilda Blomqvist is gassed and burned to death in her house by serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor in Västerfärnebo, Västmanlands Län, Sweden.

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(-) 86 years ago Friday 11th of October 1940 Ingeborg Goetz is attacked by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Goetz was hit on the head with a club, slashed in the stomach and thrown out of a train. She recoverd in hospital but remembered nothing about her attacker.

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(+) 84 years ago Sunday 11th of October 1942 Mass murderer James Oliver Huberty aka Hunting Humans is born in Canton, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 76 years ago Wednesday 11th of October 1950 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Elisabeth von Dyck is born in Borstel-Hohenraden, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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(+) 72 years ago Monday 11th of October 1954 Manager of The Doors Danny Daniel Stephen Sugerman is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Monday 11th of October 1954 Victim of the Black Zebra Killers Thomas Rainwater is born in Monrovia, California, United States.

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(-) 63 years ago Il Restait avec Nous Friday 11th of October 1963 Poet, writer, artist and filmmaker Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Milly-la-Forêt, Île-de-France, France. It has been said that Cocteau's heart failed upon hearing of his friend Edith Piaf's death that was announced on the radio in the morning.

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(x) 61 years ago Monday 11th of October 1965 23-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is charged with being an accessory to the murder of Edward Evans in Hyde Police Station, 120 Clarendon Rd, Hyde, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(-) 60 years ago Tuesday 11th of October 1966 Jolanta Gierek is strangled by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

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(-) 57 years ago He Collected a Piece of Bloody Shirt Saturday 11th of October 1969 Paul Lee Stine is shot dead by unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer in Presidio Heights, San Francisco, California, United States. On 13 October the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from Zodiac containing a piece of bloody shirt and taking credit for the killing.

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(-) 50 years ago Monday 11th of October 1976 Monika Pfeifer is abducted and killed by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka Der Hammermörder in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Pfeifer's body was found in the Rhine river near Mannheim on 20 December.

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(x) 47 years ago Thursday 11th of October 1979 Yvonne Mysliwiec is presumably attacked by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 47 years ago Thursday 11th of October 1979 34-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company attempts to murder Andrew Ho, a student from Hong Kong in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 46 years ago Saturday 11th of October 1980 9/11 terrorist Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi is born in Hazna, al Bahah Province, Saudi Arabia. al-Haznawi was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.

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(x) 41 years ago Friday 11th of October 1985 26-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK at the Animal-Végétal exhibition in Drève de Rivieren 340, Jette, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. I repeated the text “The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu” with my head immersed in water. The sound was amplified by a hydrophone. AMVK read passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The sound was amplified by a microphone. Behind us a film was projected with images of mouths of humans and beaks of animals.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 11th of October 2005 A mummified body in Natural History Museum, Shanghai, China.

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(-) 13 years ago His Funeral Caused a Riot Friday 11th of October 2013 SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Violent clashes broke out between fascist sympathizers and anti-fascist protesters during Priebke's funeral service by Don Florian Abrahamowicz, an ex-SSPX priest and of Jewish origin.

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(-) 11 years ago He Skipped a Beat Sunday 11th of October 2015 Drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumental musician John Russell Murphy aka Krank dies of hepatitis C at the age of 56 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 7 years ago Friday 11th of October 2019 Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov known for the first spacewalk dies of a long illness at the age of 85 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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41st year - Nr 283 Saturday, 10 October 2026

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41st year - Nr 283 Saturday, 10 October 2026

10 October / Today's 27 Events:

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(+) 213 years ago Sunday 10th of October 1813 Composer Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi is born in Via della Processione 1, Le Roncole, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 137 years ago He Was an Original Thursday 10th of October 1889 Art forger Han Henricus Antonius van Meegeren is born in Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands.

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(-) 132 years ago Wednesday 10th of October 1894 Howard Robert Pitezel is strangled by serial killer Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor in Irvington, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 125 years ago Thursday 10th of October 1901 Sculptor Alberto Giacometti is born in Borgonovo, Graubünden, Switzerland.

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(-) 103 years ago Wednesday 10th of October 1923 Murderess Susan Newell is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Duke Street Prison, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Newell was the last woman to be hanged in Scotland.

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(+) 102 years ago His Mother Wanted a Daughter Friday 10th of October 1924 Cult film director Ed Edward Davis Wood aka The Worst Director of All Time is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Wood's mother Lillian would dress him in girl's clothing when he was a child because she had always wanted a daughter. For the rest of his life Wood became a heterosexual crossdresser infatuated with the feel of angora on his skin.

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(x) 101 years ago Saturday 10th of October 1925 Kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 101 years ago He Was Strong but not from Outer Space Saturday 10th of October 1925 Strongman and eccentric Antonio Barichievich aka The Great Antonio is born in Zagreb, Zagrebačka županija, Croatia. In his later years Barichievich claimed that he was an extraterrestrial.

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(+) 96 years ago He Had a Birthday Party Friday 10th of October 1930 Writer and playwright Harold Pinter is born in Hackney, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 95 years ago Saturday 10th of October 1931 39-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker is arrested in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 93 years ago Tuesday 10th of October 1933 Hair stylist and victim of the Manson Family Jay Sebring, originally Thomas John Kummer is born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Jay after the first initial of his middle name and Sebring after the famous Florida car race.

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(-) 87 years ago His Heart Pulled the Switch Tuesday 10th of October 1939 New York State Electrician aka executioner Robert Greene Elliott dies of coronary embolism at the age of 65 in Richmond Hill, 132-10 Ninety-fourth Avenue, Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 86 years ago Thursday 10th of October 1940 Executioner Alwin Engelhardt dies of heart failure at the age of 65 in Schmölln, Thüringen, Germany. During his time as an executioner Engelhardt executed over 100 people.

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(+) 78 years ago Sunday 10th of October 1948 Victim of John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place Geraldine Evans is born in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 77 years ago Monday 10th of October 1949 20-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is convicted of forgery for a $10 check at a gas station in Maryville, Missouri, United States. Hatcher was sentenced to three years imprisonment in Missouri State Penitentiary.

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(x) 77 years ago The Murder Was Not Televised Monday 10th of October 1949 22-year-old Double murderer Daniel Raven batters his wealthy parents-in-law 49-year-old Leopold Goodman and 47-year-old Esther to death with the heavy base of a television aerial in Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

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(-) 63 years ago Thursday 10th of October 1963 Singer Édith Piaf, originally Édith Giovanna Gassion aka La Môme Piaf dies of an aneurism at the age of 48 in Chemin de la Rouree, Plascassier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(x) 61 years ago Sunday 10th of October 1965 27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 13. Aktion in the house of Heinz Cibulka in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 56 years ago Saturday 10th of October 1970 Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground on the traffic-court building in support for the prison riots in Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 46 years ago Friday 10th of October 1980 Cherie Lynn Ayers is raped and killed by serial killer Randall Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer in Portland, Oregon, United States. Woodfield was linked by DNA technology to the murder of Ayers in 2005.

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(-) 41 years ago He Didn't Smoke no More Thursday 10th of October 1985 Actor Yul Brynner, originally Youl or Yuliy Borisovich Briner dies of lung cancer at the age of 65 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago He Was D for Dead Thursday 10th of October 1985 Actor and film director Orson George Welles dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 40 years ago Friday 10th of October 1986 Gerold 'Gero' Hermann Johannes Edler von Braunmühl is shot dead by die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe in Buchholzstraße 39, Ippendorf, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The Ingrid Schubert Commando claims responsability. The main suspects in his murder are Rote Armee Fraktion members Barbara and Horst Meyer but there is no evidence. In the forensic examination of the projectiles a revolver of the Smith & Wesson type was identified, most likely the same gun with which West German business leader Hanns Martin Schleyer was executed.

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(x) 33 years ago Sunday 10th of October 1993 292 die in MV Seohae ferry sinking in Wido, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea.

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(-) 32 years ago Monday 10th of October 1994 Wife of Bruno Richard Hauptmann Anna Schoeffler dies of natural causes at the age of 96 in Lancaster General Hospital, 555 N Duke Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 22 years ago Came the Planes Sunday 10th of October 2004 Actor Christopher D'Olier Reeve known for portraying Superman dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 52 in Northern Westchester Hospital, 400 Main Street, Mount Kisco, New York, United States.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 10th of October 2005 The remains of what once was a stairway in a demolished house in a hutong also gone in Shanghai, China.

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