41st year - Nr 279 Tuesday, 6 October 2026

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41st year - Nr 279 Tuesday, 6 October 2026

6 October / Today's 27 Events:

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(-) 142 years ago Monday 6th of October 1884 Murderer Thomas Harris is executed by hanging by John Berry at the age of 48 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 142 years ago Monday 6th of October 1884 Cop killer Thomas Orrock is executed by hanging by John Berry at the age of 21 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 139 years ago Thursday 6th of October 1887 Urban planner and pioneer of modern architecture Le Corbusier, originally Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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(-) 134 years ago Thursday 6th of October 1892 Poet Alfred Tennyson dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Aldworth, Blackdown, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 119 years ago Sunday 6th of October 1907 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Alfred Hogrefe is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 113 years ago War Sie Meretlein Monday 6th of October 1913 Surrealist artist Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim is born in Joachim-Friedrich-Straße 48, Halensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 112 years ago Tuesday 6th of October 1914 Adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl is born in Larvik, Vestfold, Norway.

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(+) 84 years ago Tuesday 6th of October 1942 Actress and sex symbol Britt Ekland, originally Britt-Marie Eklund is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

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(+) 78 years ago Wednesday 6th of October 1948 Avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca is born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 75 years ago Saturday 6th of October 1951 Industrialist in food manufacturing Will Keith Kellogg known for Kellogg’s cereals dies of heart failure at the age of 91 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Saturday 6th of October 1951 Victim of Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler Diane A. Wilder is born in Bremerton, Washington, United States.

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(x) 64 years ago Saturday 6th of October 1962 37-year-old Stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist Lenny Bruce, originally Leonard Alfred Schneider is arrested for possession of narcotics in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 64 years ago Saturday 6th of October 1962 Film director Tod Charles Albert Browning dies of throat cancer at the age of 82 in Malibu, California, United States.

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(-) 61 years ago Wednesday 6th of October 1965 Edward Evans is battered with a hatchet and strangled by serial killers the Moors Murderers aka Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 16 Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(x) 57 years ago Monday 6th of October 1969 The Haymarket Memorial statue is bombed by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in Haymarket Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States. The blast broke nearly 100 windows in the neighborhood and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below. The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on 4 May 1970.

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(x) 56 years ago Tuesday 6th of October 1970 The Haymarket Memorial statue is bombed once more by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in Haymarket Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States. The statue was rebuilt again and Mayor Richard J. Daley posted a 24‑hour police guard at the statue. This guard cost $67.440 per year. In 1972 it was moved to the lobby of the Central Police Headquarters and in 1976 to the enclosed courtyard of the Chicago police academy.

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(x) 54 years ago Friday 6th of October 1972 208 die in train derailment in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

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(-) 45 years ago Tuesday 6th of October 1981 3rd President of Egypt Anwar Sadat, originally Muḥammad Anwar as-Sādāt is shot dead during a military parade by a terrorist commando from the Islamic Group led by Lieutenant Khalid Islambouli at the age of 63 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt. Sadat and ten others were killed outright or suffered fatal wounds, including Major General Hassan Allam, general from the Omani delegation Khalfan Nasser Mohammed, Eng. Samir Helmy Ibrahim, Al Anba' Samuel, presidential photographer Mohammed Yousuf Rashwan, Saeed Abdel Raouf Bakr, Chinese engineer Zhang Baoyu, as well as the Cuban ambassador to Egypt and a Coptic Orthodox bishop. Twenty-eight were wounded, including Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Irish Defence Minister James Tully and four US military liaison officers.

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(x) 39 years ago Tuesday 6th of October 1987 Estera Epsztejn is attacked by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in Rue Duranti, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Epsztejn survived.

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(+) 38 years ago Thursday 6th of October 1988 Mass murderer Sulejman Talović is born in Cerska, Republika Srpska, Bosnia.

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(-) 37 years ago Friday 6th of October 1989 Actress Bette Ruth Elizabeth Davis dies of breast cancer at the age of 81 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 33 years ago He Wasn't Inspired no More Wednesday 6th of October 1993 Truck driver Larry Lawrence Richard Walters aka Lawnchair Larry aka The Lawn Chair Pilot commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 44 in Angeles National Forest, California, United States. Walters achieved dubious fame in 1982 when he piloted an aluminium lawn chair attached to 42 helium weather balloons, dubbed 'Inspiration I', 16.000 feet above from San Pedro to Long Beach.

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(-) 22 years ago His Last Meal Was One of the Largest Wednesday 6th of October 2004 Murderer Peter J. Miniel is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Miniel's last meal request was for twenty beef tacos, twenty beef enchiladas, two double cheeseburgers, a pizza with jalapeños, fried chicken, spaghetti with salt, half of a chocolate cake, half of a vanilla cake, cookies and cream ice cream, caramel pecan fudge ice cream, a small fruit cake, two Coca-Colas, two Pepsi-Colas, two root beers and two orange juices. Miniel's last meal was one of the largest to be served on Death Row.

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(-) 21 years ago Thursday 6th of October 2005 Cop killer Ronald Ray Howard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Howard had no last meal request.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 6th of October 2006 A gun made of cardboard, breadcrumb and shoepolish by multiple murderer Freddy Horion with whom I corresponded from 1987 onwards at the Voorbij Goed & Kwaad exhibition in Museum Dr. Guislain, Jozef Guislainstraat 43, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 6 years ago Tuesday 6th of October 2020 Musician Eddie Edward Lodewijk Van Halen aka The Mozart of Rock dies of throat cancer at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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(-) 4 years ago Thursday 6th of October 2022 Mass murderer Panya Khamrab known for the Nong Bua Lamphu attack commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 34 in Uthai Sawan Nursery, Na Klang, Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand. During the day Khamrab stabbed and shot dead at least 24 children and 14 adults in three locations, including his wife and son. An additional 12 people were injured. Earlier on this day Khamrab attended a court session regarding drug offenses and was scheduled to appear for a court hearing on Friday 7 October 2022 in connection with his offenses.

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