41st year - Nr 293 Tuesday, 20 October 2026

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41st year - Nr 293 Tuesday, 20 October 2026

20 October / Today's 23 Events:

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(-) 839 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1187 172nd Pope Urbanus III, originally Uberto Crivelli dies of grief at the age of 67 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 172 years ago Friday 20th of October 1854 Poet Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud is born in 12 rue Napoléon, Charleville, Champagne-Ardenne, France.

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(+) 152 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1874 Modernist composer Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 144 years ago Friday 20th of October 1882 Actor Bela Lugosi, originally Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó known for portraying Count Dracula is born in Lugoj, Timiș, Romania. Lugosi later based his last name on his hometown.

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(-) 135 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1891 Matilda Clover is poisoned by serial killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist in Lambeth Road 27, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 132 years ago Saturday 20th of October 1894 Actress and model Olive Thomas, originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy is born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 124 years ago Monday 20th of October 1902 Maud Marsh is poisoned with tartar-emetic by serial poisoner George Chapman aka The Borough Poisoner in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 122 years ago Thursday 20th of October 1904 49-year-old Bigamist and multiple murderer Johann Otto Hoch, originally John Schmidt aka The Bluebeard Murderer marries Caroline Streicher as John Schmidt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 116 years ago Thursday 20th of October 1910 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinz Brinkmann is born in Clausthal, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 100 years ago Wednesday 20th of October 1926 Virginia A. Grant is strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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(x) 82 years ago Friday 20th of October 1944 130 die in East Ohio Gas Company explosion in East 61st Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 80 years ago Sunday 20th of October 1946 Writer Elfriede Jelinek is born in Mürzzuschlag, Steiermark, Austria.

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(-) 62 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1964 31st President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover dies of massive internal bleeding at the age of 90 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 58 years ago Sunday 20th of October 1968 First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy dies of massive internal bleeding in Skorpios, Ionian Islands, Greece.

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(-) 53 years ago Saturday 20th of October 1973 Quita Pirelli-Minetti Hague is decapitated by murder gang The Black Zebra Killers aka The Death Angels in Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, United States. Hague and her 30-year-old husband Richard were strolling near their home when they were kidnapped by a group of black men and forced into a van. Quita was fondled by two men and then nearly decapitated by a third man with a machete. One of the men who had fondled Quita then similarly hacked Richard and left him for dead, but he survived. Quita's assailant Larry Craig Green was convicted of her murder and sentenced to a California prison.

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(-) 45 years ago Tuesday 20th of October 1981 Danny Davis is abducted, tortured and killed by child molester and serial killer Arthur Gary Bishop aka The Mormon Murderer in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Wednesday 20th of October 1982 66 die in FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem soccer game stampede in Central Lenin Stadium, Khamovniki, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(x) 41 years ago Sunday 20th of October 1985 Twentieth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC on the car of Mr. Galand, chairman of the CNAPD in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. It was the second action in their Campagne Pierre Akkerman.

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(-) 32 years ago Thursday 20th of October 1994 Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster dies of a third heart attack at the age of 81 in The Century Towers, Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 22 years ago Wednesday 20th of October 2004 Murderer Ricky Eugene Morrow is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Morrow's last meal request was for a cheeseburger, French fries, onion rings and iced tea.

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(-) 21 years ago Thursday 20th of October 2005 Murder plotter Luis L. Ramirez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Ramirez hired Edward Bell to kill the boyfriend of his ex-wife Dawn.

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(-) 10 years ago Thursday 20th of October 2016 Mountaineer Junko Tabei known for becoming the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.

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2 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 20th of October 2024 A rusty abandoned water tower in Limassol, Limassol District, Cyprus.

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