25 events for Friday 25 September 2015

• (-) 481 Years Ago Today Tuesday 25th of September 1534 219th Pope Clemens VII, originally Giulio di Giuliano de Medici dies from eating poisonous mushrooms at the age of 56 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Just a few days before his death Clemens VII ordered Michelangelo to paint 'The Last Judgment' in the Sistine Chapel.




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• (+) 183 Years Ago Today Tuesday 25th of September 1832 Architect and engineer William Le Baron Jenney aka The Father of the American Skyscraper is born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, United States.




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• (+) 118 Years Ago Today Saturday 25th of September 1897 Writer William Cuthbert Faulkner is born in New Albany, Mississippi, United States.




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• (+) 112 Years Ago Today Friday 25th of September 1903 Abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, originally Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz is born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Oblast, Russia.




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• (+) 109 Years Ago Today Tuesday 25th of September 1906 Composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich is born in Podolskaya Street 2, St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.




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• (-) 97 Years Ago Today Wednesday 25th of September 1918 17-year-old Friedel Rothe is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Celler Straße 27, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.




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• (+) 83 Years Ago Today Sunday 25th of September 1932 Pianist Glenn Hubert Gould known for his interpretations of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is born in 32 Southwood Drive, Toronto, The Beaches, Ontario, Canada.




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• (+) 71 Years Ago Today Monday 25th of September 1944 Actor Michael Kirk Douglas is born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States.




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• (-) 64 Years Ago Today Tuesday 25th of September 1951 Murderer Steve Mitchell is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 49 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.




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• (+) 63 Years Ago Today Thursday 25th of September 1952 Serial killer Patrick David Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First is born in Park Royal Hospital, Acton Lane, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 63 Years Ago Today He Was Baby Superman Thursday 25th of September 1952 Actor Christopher D'Olier Reeve known for portraying Superman is born in New York City, New York, United States.




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• (-) 45 Years Ago Today He Was the Candyman's First Friday 25th of September 1970 19-year-old Jeffrey Alan Konen is tortured and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in Yorktown Street, Houston, Texas, United States. Konen vanished while hitchhiking with another student from the University of Texas to his parents' home in Houston. He was dropped off alone at the corner of Westheimer Road and South Voss Road near the Uptown area of Houston. Konen was Corll's first victim. Konen's body was buried at High Island Beach.




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• (-) 38 Years Ago Today Sunday 25th of September 1977 19-year-old John A. Mowery is murdered by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.




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• (x) 37 Years Ago Today Monday 25th of September 1978 144 die in Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 Boeing 727-214 collision in San Diego, North Park, California, United States. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 collided with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft flown by 32-year-old Martin B. Kazy Jr. and 35-year-old David Boswell. The site of the crash was immediately swarmed with looters who robbed the bodies of all their valuables.




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• (x) 36 Years Ago Today Tuesday 25th of September 1979 20-year-old Mass murderer Dirk De Winne is sentenced to 20 years hard labour in Assisenhof, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.




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• (x) 33 Years Ago Today He Was Filled with Hate and Anger Saturday 25th of September 1982 40-year-old Spree killer George Emil Banks shoots 13 people including three of his girlfriends and five of his children to death with a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States. Banks said he killed his children because he felt they would be tormented by the cruelty of racial views against mixed-race children. Since his conviction Banks has tried to kill himself four times and has gone on hunger strikes that required him to be force-fed.




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• (-) 32 Years Ago Today Sunday 25th of September 1983 King of Belgium Leopold III, originally Leopold Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel dies of heart failure at the age of 82 in Universitair Ziekenhuis Saint-Luc, Brussel, Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Brabant, Belgium.




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• (x) 32 Years Ago Today Sunday 25th of September 1983 In the largest prison escape in the United Kingdom, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners armed with handguns hijack a prison lorry and smash their way out in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Fifteen escapees were captured on the first day, including four who were discovered hiding underwater in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe.




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• (x) 31 Years Ago Today Tuesday 25th of September 1984 50-year-old Family leader Charles Milles Manson, originally no name Maddox known for conspiracy to murder Sharon Tate is doused with paint thinner and set on fire by inmate Jan Holstrom in the hobby shop in California Medical Facility, Vaccaville, California, United States. Manson suffered second-and third-degree burns over 18% of his body, mostly his head and hands.




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• (x) 28 Years Ago Today He Put it in the Wrong Hand Friday 25th of September 1987 36-year-old Mass murderer James E. Schnick shoots 7 members of his family to death in Elkland, Missouri, United States. The victims were his 30-year-old wife Julie Schnick, his 35-year-old brother-in-law Steve Buckner, his 36-year-old sister-in-law Jeannette and their sons 14-year-old Kirk, 8-year-old Dennis, 6-year-old Timmy and 2-year-old Michael. Schnick tried to blame Kirk Buckner for the murders but placed the gun in Kirk's right hand while he was left-handed.




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• (-) 24 Years Ago Today Wednesday 25th of September 1991 SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Nikolaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon dies of leukemia and cancer of the spine and prostate at the age of 78 in Prison Saint-Joseph, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.




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• (-) 24 Years Ago Today Wednesday 25th of September 1991 Cop killer Warren McCleskey is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, Highway 36, Jackson, Georgia, United States.




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• (x) 21 Years Ago Today Sunday 25th of September 1994 33-year-old Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner gets drunk from consuming alcohol which he fermented in his own prison cell sink and stabs inmate Richard 'Fats' Thomas with a shiv fashioned from a pair of sunglasses in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States. Thomas suffered nine puncture wounds to his face, mouth, arm and chest that were life-threatening, but made a full recovery.




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• (-) 18 Years Ago Today He Wanted a Coke Thursday 25th of September 1997 Double murderer Benjamin C. Stone is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Stone ordered a Coke only for his last meal.




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• (-) 13 Years Ago Today He Was Peppered Wednesday 25th of September 2002 Murderer Calvin Eugene King is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. King's last meal request was for half of a fried chicken cooked in garlic powder and red pepper, French fries, one Dr. Pepper and hot sauce.

28 events for Friday 18 September 2015

• (+) 250 Years Ago Today Wednesday 18th of September 1765 254th Pope Gregorius XVI, originally Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari aka Mauro is born in Belluno, Veneto, Italy.




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• (+) 166 Years Ago Today Tuesday 18th of September 1849 Murderess Martha Place, originally Martha 'Mattie' Garretson is born in Readington Township, New Jersey, United States.




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• (-) 147 Years Ago Today Friday 18th of September 1868 Horse thief and murderer Melvin E. Baughn is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Seneca, Kansas, United States. Baughn's execution was conducted inside of a canvass enclosure in front of the jail in Seneca. A rope was stretched on stakes about twenty feet from the enclosure and twenty guards armed with muskets and bayonets were stationed on the outside of the rope to keep back the crowd.




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• (+) 109 Years Ago Today Tuesday 18th of September 1906 Actress Greta Garbo, originally Greta Lovisa Gustafsson is born in Stockholm, Södermalm, Södermanland, Sweden.




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• (-) 109 Years Ago Today Tuesday 18th of September 1906 Murderer John C. Barnes is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.




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• (-) 84 Years Ago Today She Couldn't Breathe Friday 18th of September 1931 Adolf Hitler's half-niece and supposed lover Geli Angela Maria Raubal commits suicide by a shot in her lung at the age of 23 in Prinzregentenplatz 16, München, Bayern, Germany. Raubal shot herself in Hitler's apartment with Hitler's Walther 7.65 pistol.




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• (+) 82 Years Ago Today Monday 18th of September 1933 Actor Robert Blake, originally Michael James Gubitosi is born in Nutley, New Jersey, United States.




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• (x) 72 Years Ago Today Saturday 18th of September 1943 40-year-old Leader of the Italian National Fascist Party Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce calls out the Repubblica Sociale Italiana in Salò, Lombardia, Italy. The Repubblica Sociale Italiana, informally known as the Repubblica di Salò, was a satellite state of Nazi Germany during the later part of World War II




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• (+) 63 Years Ago Today Thursday 18th of September 1952 Musician Dee Dee Ramone, originally Douglas Glenn Colvin is born in Fort Lee, Virginia, United States.




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• (-) 62 Years Ago Today Friday 18th of September 1953 Murderess Louisa May Merrifield, originally Louisa Highway is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 47 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Merrifield was the fourth and last woman to be executed at the prison.




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• (-) 56 Years Ago Today Friday 18th of September 1959 Serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 32 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.




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• (-) 54 Years Ago Today Monday 18th of September 1961 Second Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld dies in a Douglas DC-6B plane crash at the age of 56 in Ndola, Zambia. Hammarskjöld and fifteen others perished in the crash. The circumstances of the incident are still not clear. There is some recent evidence that suggest the plane was shot down.




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• (x) 50 Years Ago Today Saturday 18th of September 1965 38-year-old Cop killer Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen kills four police officers while escaping in a stolen car from a burglary in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark. Sørensen was captured three days later.




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• (+) 47 Years Ago Today Wednesday 18th of September 1968 Murderer Charles Daniel Thacker is born in Lorain County, Ohio, United States.




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• (-) 45 Years Ago Today Friday 18th of September 1970 Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jimi James Marshall Hendrix, originally Johnny Allen Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 28 in Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, London, Notting Hill, Greater London, United Kingdom. A post-mortem concluded that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Hendrix had taken nine Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.




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• (x) 41 Years Ago Today Wednesday 18th of September 1974 18-year-old Sally Versoi and 17-year-old Diane Flynn are picked up by 47-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Carignan forced them to perform oral sex and would beat them if they didn’t follow a command. The two girls were able to escape when Carignan stopped for fuel.




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• (x) 41 Years Ago Today Wednesday 18th of September 1974 28-year-old Serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer shoots elderly campers Emmett and Lois Johnson to death on a campground in Nevada, United States.




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• (x) 40 Years Ago Today Thursday 18th of September 1975 40-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker is found guilty of robbery, burglary and kidnapping, and sentenced to 30 to 80 years imprisonment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.




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• (x) 40 Years Ago Today Thursday 18th of September 1975 21-year-old Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst is arrested by the FBI and SFPD in San Francisco, California, United States. Hearst and another SLA member, Wendy Yoshimura were arrested by FBI Agent Thomas Padden.




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• (-) 34 Years Ago Today Friday 18th of September 1981 24-year-old Malcolm Barlow is strangled by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.




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• (x) 30 Years Ago Today They Wanted to See the Image of God Wednesday 18th of September 1985 60 members of the ATA tribe are poisoned by their High Priestess Datu Mangayanon Butaog "so they could see the image of God" in Dabao-shō, Philippines. Datu Mangayanon Butaog fed her followers a porridge spiked with insecticide and then committed suicide by stabbing herself to death.




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• (-) 19 Years Ago Today Wednesday 18th of September 1996 Spree killer Raymond Lee Stewart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Joliet Prison, Joliet, Illinois, United States.




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• (-) 19 Years Ago Today Wednesday 18th of September 1996 Murderer Joe Fedelfido Gonzales is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.




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• 16 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it Saturday 18th of September 1999 The sister of the bride wore a sexy plaster cast at the wedding of Ronald Van De Sompel and Mie Nagai in 't Boerenhof, Oostakker, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.




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• (-) 14 Years Ago Today Tuesday 18th of September 2001 Murderer James Roy Knox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.




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• (-) 13 Years Ago Today He Requested Spicy Stuff Wednesday 18th of September 2002 Murderer Ron Scott Shamburger is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Shamburger's last meal request was for Nachos with chili and cheese, one bowl of sliced jalapenos, one bowl of picante sauce, two large onions (sliced and grilled), tacos (with fresh tomatoes, lettuce and cheese) and toasted corn tortilla shells.




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• (x) 13 Years Ago Today Wednesday 18th of September 2002 92-year-old Prefect of Paris and Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon is released from prison on grounds of poor health in less than three years into his ten years term in . Papon was charged with crimes against humanity, complicity of assassination and abuse of authority.




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• (-) 11 Years Ago Today Saturday 18th of September 2004 Film director Russ Russell Albion Meyer aka The King of the Nudies known for his big breast fixation dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in 3121 Arrowhead Drive, Hollywood Hills, California, United States.