41st year - Nr 305 Sunday, 1 November 2026

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41st year - Nr 305 Sunday, 1 November 2026

1 November / Today's 28 Events:

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(x) 422 years ago Monday 1st of November 1604 'The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice' by 40-year-old Poet and playwright William Shakespeare is performed for the first time in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On "Hallamas Day, being the first of Nouembar ... the Kings Maiesties plaiers" performed "A Play in the Banketinghouse at Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis." The work is attributed to "Shaxberd."

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(x) 415 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1611 The romantic comedy 'The Tempest' by 47-year-old Poet and playwright William Shakespeare is performed for the first time by the King's Men before James I and the English royal court in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 147 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1879 Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary Pál Teleki, originally Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék is born in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

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(-) 119 years ago Friday 1st of November 1907 Symbolist writer Alfred Jarry aka The Father of Pataphysics dies of tuberculosis aggravated by drug and alcohol use at the age of 34 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Jarry's last request was for a toothpick.

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(x) 99 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1927 Start of the trial against 30-year-old Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Manitoba Law Courts Building, 391 Broadway Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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(x) 94 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1932 20-year-old Wife of Adolf Hitler for one day Eva Anna Paula Braun shoots herself in the neck in her parents’ house in München, Bayern, Germany. Braun's wound was only superficial, and she recovered in a couple of days.

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(-) 88 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1938 Murderer George Brain is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Brain stabbed 30-year-old prostitute Rose Muriel Atkins aka Irish Rose to death on 14 July 1938.

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(-) 80 years ago Friday 1st of November 1946 Murderer Albert Robert Boyce is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 45 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Boyce shot dead his 41-year-old girlfriend Elizabeth McLindon at 45 Chester Square, Belgravia, London on 8 June 1946.

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(x) 74 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1952 42-year-old deer hunter Victor 'Bunk' Travis and his companion Ray Burgess are presumably shot dead by 46-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America’s Most Bizarre Murderer in Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States. Travis and Burgess and their car were never to be seen again. A massive search was conducted but there was no trace of them. Travis' dead dog and pieces of clothing were eventually recovered but the hunters and their car had vanished from the area.

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(x) 71 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1955 23-year-old Mass murderer Jack Gilbert Graham plants a dynamite bomb in his mother, Daisie King's suitcase that was subsequently loaded aboard United Airlines Flight 629 and exploding over tracts of farmland and sugar beet fields in Longmont, Colorado, United States. Graham had purchased $37,500 worth of life insurance money policies in the airport terminal just before the aircraft's departure at Stapleton Airfield in Denver, Colorado. 44 people were killed in the blast, there were no survivors.

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(+) 68 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1958 Murderer Roger Keith Coleman is born in Grundy, Virginia, United States.

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(-) 61 years ago Monday 1st of November 1965 Janina Popielska is stabbed to death, raped and mutilated by serial killer Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice in Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland. On 2 November the Poznan newspaper Courier Zachodni received a red-ink letter quoting Stefan Zeromsky's 1928 novel 'Popioli': "Only tears of sorrow can wash out the stain of shame, only pangs of suffering can blot out the fires of lust."

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(x) 56 years ago Sunday 1st of November 1970 146 die in nightclub fire in Club Cinq-Sept, Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(-) 54 years ago Wednesday 1st of November 1972 Modernist poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound dies of intestinal blockage at the age of 87 in Ospedale Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

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(-) 51 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1975 School shooter Anthony Barbaro known for the Olean High School shooting commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 16 in Cattaraugus County Jail, Little Valley, New York, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1977 Lillie Pearl Darty is found shot in the head by serial killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death in Standpipe Road, Marshall, Texas, United States.

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(-) 44 years ago Monday 1st of November 1982 Film director King Wallis Vidor dies of a heart ailment at the age of 88 in Paso Robles, California, United States.

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(x) 42 years ago Thursday 1st of November 1984 Noise music band Club Moral play their 39th concert in De Warande, Warandestraat 42, Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 40 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1986 27-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'L'Age D'Or nr2' in an installation by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Stadsschouwburg, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands. In an AMVK-installation I was laying naked on a rotating platform, naked with my legs spread, my feet tied to a branch. By shuffling over the platform it looked as if I was moving forward, but yet remaining on the same spot. On the background a film of the same performance in a wood was projected.

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(x) 40 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1986 When their 61-year-old Cult leader of the Church of the Friends Kiyoharo Miyamoto dies of a  liver-disease his seven ‘Brides of God’ commit suicide by self-immolation on the beach in Wakayama, Honshu Island, Japan.

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(-) 35 years ago Friday 1st of November 1991 Mass murderer Gang Lu commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 28 in University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Lu killed 47-year-old professor Christoph K. Goertz, 44-year-old chairman Dwight R. Nicholson, assistant professor Robert Alan Smith, 27-year-old fellow graduate student Linhua Shan, 56-year-old assistant vice president for academic affairs T. Anne Cleary and seriously wounded 23-year-old student employee Miya Rodolfo-Sioson before committing suicide. Lu was infuriated because his dissertation 'Study of the "Critical Ionization Velocity" Effect by Particle-in-Cell Simulation' did not receive t he prestigious D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize. In the months prior to the shooting Lu wrote five letters explaining the reasons for his planned actions.

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(x) 32 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 1994 69-year-old Suspected serial killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostro di Firenze is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Firenze, Toscana, Italy. Pacciani probably killed 16 people between 1968 and 1985.

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(-) 29 years ago Saturday 1st of November 1997 JoAnn C. Thomas is strangled by serial killer Alfred Gaynor aka The Springfield Strangler in 866 Worthington St., Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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27 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 1st of November 1999 A rather boring Franko B. performance in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 1st of November 2000 Murderer Jeffrey Dillingham is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Dillingham's last meal request was for one cheeseburger with American, Cheddar and Mozzarella cheese, without mayonaise, mustard or onions; large French fries; bowl of macaroni and cheese; lasagna with two slices of garlic bread; 4 oz. of Nacho cheese; three large cinnamon rolls; five scrambled eggs and eight pints of chocolate milk.

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(x) 21 years ago Tuesday 1st of November 2005 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV plays 'I Love Rock'n'Roll' in 2 Kolegas Bar, 21 Liangmaqiao Lu, Chaoyang, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 1st of November 2005 Meeting up with a truckload of sheep in a traffic jam in Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(-) 20 years ago Wednesday 1st of November 2006 Murderer Donell O'Keith Jackson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Jackson's last meal request was for peach cobbler, barbecued ribs, french fries, onion rings, two double meat bacon burgers along with a root beer soda and a banana split ice cream.

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