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280 Years Ago Today
Sunday 30th of October 1735
2nd President of the United States John Adams is born in 133 Franklin Street, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. -
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158 Years Ago Today
Friday 30th of October 1857
Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Édouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, Poitou-Charentes, France. -
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152 Years Ago Today
Friday 30th of October 1863
Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, United States. -
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144 Years Ago Today
Monday 30th of October 1871
Poet and philosopher Paul Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry is born in Sète, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. -
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130 Years Ago Today
Friday 30th of October 1885
Modernist poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, United States. -
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105 Years Ago Today He Disappeared with Humanity
Sunday 30th of October 1910
Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant dies of unknown causes at the age of 18 in Heiden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.
Dunant's final words were "Where has humanity gone?" -
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84 Years Ago Today
Friday 30th of October 1931
Cop killer James E. Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. -
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83 Years Ago Today
Sunday 30th of October 1932
Film director Louis Marie Malle is born in Thumeries, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. -
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78 Years Ago Today
Saturday 30th of October 1937
Film director Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouche is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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77 Years Ago Today He Created Panic
Sunday 30th of October 1938
23-year-old Actor and film director Orson George Welles broadcasts his radio play "War of the Worlds" in CBS studio, 485 Madison Avenue, 20th floor, New York City, New York, United States.
Welles' broadcast was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel 'The War of the Worlds' (1898). -
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74 Years Ago Today
Thursday 30th of October 1941
Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. -
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49 Years Ago Today
Sunday 30th of October 1966
18-year-old Cheri Jo Josephine Bates is stabbed to death by unidentified serial killer Zodiac in Riverside City College, Riverside, California, United States.
There were similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates's death but no real proof she was killed by Zodiac. -
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49 Years Ago Today
Sunday 30th of October 1966
Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh is born in Az-Zarqā, Muħāfazat az-Zarqā, Jordan. -
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47 Years Ago Today He Choked on Something
Wednesday 30th of October 1968
Actor Ramon Novarro, originally José Ramón Gil Samaniego aka Latin Lover is murdered by 22-year-old Paul and 17-year-old Tom Ferguson at the age of 69 in Hollywood, Laurel Canyon, California, United States.
Novarro had hired the Ferguson brothers from an agency to come to his home for sex but the two young men believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarro's house. Novarro died as a result of asphyxiation - having choked to death on his own blood after being beaten. Some say Novarro had in fact been suffocated with a lead dildo given to him 45 years earlier by Rudolph Valentino. -
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40 Years Ago Today
Thursday 30th of October 1975
28-year-old Wilma McCann is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Prince Philip Playing Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
McCann was Sutcliffe's first deadly victim. -
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38 Years Ago Today
Sunday 30th of October 1977
15-year-old Judy Judith Ann Miller is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in Railway Diner, 8300 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, California, United States.
Miller's body was found naked, face up on a parkway in a residential area in the La Crescenta neighborhood northeast of downtown Los Angeles on 1 November 1977. -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 30th of October 1979
Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Étang Rompu, Rambouillet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France.
Boulin's final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback." -
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34 Years Ago Today
Friday 30th of October 1981
17-year-old Britta Schilling is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Teufelsmoor, Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, .
Schilling was found naked and her clothes scattered on 6 November 1981. -
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33 Years Ago Today
Saturday 30th of October 1982
Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Joliet, Illinois, United States. -
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31 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 30th of October 1984
Cop killer Thomas Andy Barefoot is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Barefoot shot 31-year-old police officer Carl LeVin in the head in an attempt to avoid arrest after he raped a 3-year-old girl. -
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30 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 30th of October 1985
25-year-old Mass murderess Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist shoots 2-year-old Recife Cosmen, Earl Trout and Augustus Ferrara in a shooting spree because "My family makes me nervous" in Springfield Mall, 1250 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, Pennsylvania, United States.
Seegrist also wounded seven people. -
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25 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 30th of October 1990
Escape artist Joseph Burrus aka Amazing Joe is crushed by a load of concrete in a 'buried alive' magician's trick at the age of 32 in Blackbeard's Family Fun Center, 4055 N Chestnut Diagonal, Fresno, California, United States.
As trick-and-treaters watched in shock rescuers frantically dug Burrus out but were unable to reach him in time. -
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25 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 30th of October 1990
16-year-old Viktor Wadim Tishchenko is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia.
Tishchenko fought hard for his life, biting and breaking Chikatilo's finger. -
10 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Sunday 30th of October 2005
Enjoying a tasty meal at the 'Happy Forest' village restaurant with Belgian cyclists Bavo and Sofie in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. -
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6 Years Ago Today
Friday 30th of October 2009
Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies of a heart attack at the age of 101 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
Friday 30 October 2015
25 events for Friday 30 October 2015
Friday 23 October 2015
16 events for Friday 23 October 2015
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122 Years Ago Today
Monday 23rd of October 1893
Vaudeville performer Gummo Milton Marx known from the Marx Brothers is born in New York City, New York, United States. -
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105 Years Ago Today
Sunday 23rd of October 1910
King of Siam Rama V, originally Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poraminthra Maha Chulalongkorn Phra Chunla Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua aka The Royal Buddha dies of a kidney disease at the age of 57 in Phra Ratcha Wang Dusit, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand. -
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94 Years Ago Today
Sunday 23rd of October 1921
Inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland. -
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92 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 23rd of October 1923
21-year-old Dancer, actress, film director and photographer Leni Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl performs her first solo dance performance in Tonhalle, Grafinger Straße 6, München, Bayern, Germany. -
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90 Years Ago Today Johnny was Heeeeeeeeere!
Friday 23rd of October 1925
Television host Johnny Carson known for ‘The Tonight Show’ is born in Coming, Iowa, United States. -
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88 Years Ago Today
Sunday 23rd of October 1927
Installation artist Ed Edward Ralph Kienholz is born in Fairfield, Washington, United States. -
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73 Years Ago Today
Friday 23rd of October 1942
Murderer Donald Harry Fearn is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 27 in Colorado State Penitentiary, Cañon City, Colorado, United States.
Fearn received his death sentence for kidnapping, raping, torturing and shooting 16-year-old high school student Alice Porter. Thirty-six hours before the murder Fearn's wife gave birth to their second child. -
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65 Years Ago Today
Monday 23rd of October 1950
Singer, actor and comedian Al Jolson, originally Asa Yoelson aka The World's Greatest Entertainer dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell Street, San Francisco, California, United States.
Jolson was playing cards in his suite at the hotel. His last words were said to be "Boys, I'm going." -
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58 Years Ago Today His Heart Skipped a Beat
Wednesday 23rd of October 1957
Fashion designer Christian Dior dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Montecatini Terme, Toscana, Italy.
Some reports say that Dior died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone. Time's obituary stated that he died of a heart attack after playing a game of cards. However, the Paris socialite Baron de Redé wrote in his memoirs that contemporary rumor was that Dior's heart attack had been caused by a strenuous sexual encounter with two young men. -
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54 Years Ago Today
Monday 23rd of October 1961
Murderer Arthur Schuck is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in Rockview Penitentiary, Benner Township, Pennsylvania, United States. -
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43 Years Ago Today
Monday 23rd of October 1972
9-year-old Wendell Hubbard is stabbed to death and his penis severed by unidentified serial killer Charlie Chop-off in New York, Harlem, New York, United States. -
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33 Years Ago Today
Saturday 23rd of October 1982
19-year-old Steven Crockett is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Kankakee, Illinois, United States. -
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23 Years Ago Today
Friday 23rd of October 1992
Triple murderer John Starling Gardner is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.
Gardner's last words were "All I have to say is if more parents would raise their children in God-fearing homes, maybe some of them wouldn't end up in the position I'm in." -
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17 Years Ago Today
Friday 23rd of October 1998
Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. -
10 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Sunday 23rd of October 2005
One threewheeler helping out another one along the way in Tunnel Warfare Museum, Jiaozhuanghu, Shunyi, China. -
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1 Year Ago Today
Thursday 23rd of October 2014
Musician Alvin Stardust, originally Bernard William Jewry dies of prostate cancer at the age of 72 in London, Muswell Hill, Greater London, United Kingdom.
Friday 16 October 2015
36 events for Friday 16 October 2015
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462 Years Ago Today
Friday 16th of October 1553
Painter Lucas Cranach der Ältere, originally Lucas Maler dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in Cranachhaus, Marktplatz 10, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany. -
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424 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 16th of October 1591
229th Pope Gregorius XIV, originally Niccolò Sfondrato dies of gallstones at the age of 56 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. -
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307 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 16th of October 1708
Anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet Albrecht von Haller aka The Father of Modern Physiology is born in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland. -
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224 Years Ago Today He Began to Feast Once Again
Sunday 16th of October 1791
Russian military leader and statesman Grigory Potemkin, originally Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski dies of fever at the age of 52 in Iași, Moldavia, Romania.
Supposedly Potemkin overate on a ham, a slated goose and three or four chickens. -
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222 Years Ago Today Elle Était l'Autrichienne
Wednesday 16th of October 1793
Excessive Queen consort of France and Navarre Marie Antoinette, originally Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Place de la Révolution, Paris, VIIIe, Île-de-France, France.
Marie Antoinette was accused of orchestrating orgies in Versailles, sending millions of livres of treasury money to Austria, plotting to kill the Duke of Orléans, orchestrating the massacre of the Swiss Guards in 1792, declaring her son to be the new king of France, and sexual abuse of her son Louis Charles. Marie Antoinette was declared guilty of treason and condemned to death. -
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216 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 16th of October 1799
Composer Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick dies of unknown causes at the age of 44 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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161 Years Ago Today
Monday 16th of October 1854
Poet and writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is born in 21 Westland Row, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland. -
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143 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 16th of October 1872
Circus acrobat and fantasist Otto Witte known for claiming to be the King of Albania is born in Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. -
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134 Years Ago Today
Sunday 16th of October 1881
Writer Pelham Grenville Wodehouse aka Plum is born in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
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129 Years Ago Today
Saturday 16th of October 1886
First Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion, originally David Grün aka Israel's Founding Father is born in Wspólna Street, Płońsk, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland. -
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127 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 16th of October 1888
Unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper mails a human kidney, ripped from the body of Catherine Eddowes, "From Hell" to George Lusk, head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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107 Years Ago Today
Friday 16th of October 1908
First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Halil Hoxha is born in Hodza House, Rruga Hysen Hoxha 3, Gjirokastër, Qarku i Gjirokastrës, Albania. -
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106 Years Ago Today
Saturday 16th of October 1909
Murderer Rainey Bethea is born in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.
Bethea became the last person to be publicly executed in the United States. -
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88 Years Ago Today
Sunday 16th of October 1927
Writer and playwright Günter Wilhelm Grass known for Die Blechtrommel is born in Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. -
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84 Years Ago Today She Mailed Them in a Trunk
Friday 16th of October 1931
24-year-old Hedvig Sarah Samuelson aka Sammy is stabbed and shot dead by murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
Judd also killed Agnes Anne LeRoi in the same event. Judd cut the bodies in pieces and mailed them in trunks to Los Angeles, where they were discovered 3 days later, blood seeping from one of them. -
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81 Years Ago Today They Had a Long Way to Go
Tuesday 16th of October 1934
130.000 soldiers of the First Red Army, which included the leaders of the Communist Party of China, and civilians led by Bo Gu and Otto Braun begin the Long March and the ascent to power of 41-year-old Communist revolutionary and father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong aka Mao Tse-Tung aka Chairman Mao in Yudu, Jiangxi, China.
The Communists traversed over 9.000 kilometers in 370 days under the command of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. -
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79 Years Ago Today He Grew Up in the Grip of Mass Famine
Friday 16th of October 1936
Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is born in Yabluchne, Sums'ka Oblast, Ukraine. -
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78 Years Ago Today
Saturday 16th of October 1937
24-year-old Roger LeBlond is shot in the head by kidnapper and multiple murderer Eugen Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France. -
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77 Years Ago Today
Sunday 16th of October 1938
Singer-songwriter, musician, fashion model and actress Nico, originally Christa Päffgen aka Das Einsame Mädchen is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. -
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69 Years Ago Today He Hanged Those Ten Nazis
Wednesday 16th of October 1946
Nazi leaders 53-year-old Joachim Von Ribbentrop, 64-year-old Wilhelm Keitel, 45-year-old Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 53-year-old Alfred Rosenberg, 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick, 47-year-old Hans Frank, 61-year-old Julius Streicher, 52-year-old Fritz Sauckel, 54-year-old Alfred Jodl and 54-year-old Arthur Seiss-Inquart are executed by hanging for crimes against humanity by 35-year-old Executioner John Clarence Woods in Zellengefängnis Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.
Woods may have miscalculated the lengths for the ropes used for the executions such that some of the men did not die quickly of an intended broken neck but instead strangled to death slowly. Additionally the trapdoor was too small such that several of the condemned suffered bleeding head injuries when they hit the sides of the trapdoor while dropping through. -
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69 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 16th of October 1946
Sex killer Neville Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, London, Islington, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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60 Years Ago Today
Sunday 16th of October 1955
Irish republican hunger striker Kieran Doherty, originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. -
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56 Years Ago Today
Friday 16th of October 1959
20-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. -
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41 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 16th of October 1974
35-year-old Karen Wine and her 16-year-old daughter Dawn are raped and strangled by 28-year-old Serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Marlborough, Connecticut, United States. -
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34 Years Ago Today He Lost His Eye Patch
Friday 16th of October 1981
Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Kitaigorodsky Dayan dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Tel Aviv, Gush Dan, Israel.
In 2005 Dayan's eye patch was offered for sale on Ebay with a starting bid of 75.000 U.S. dollars. -
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30 Years Ago Today It Turned Out to Be More Than Getting a Tooth Pulled
Wednesday 16th of October 1985
Murderer William E. Vandiver is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Indiana State Prison, 1 Park Row, Michigan City, Indiana, United States.
Vandiver was still breathing after the first administration of 2.300 volts and the current had to be applied three more times before he died. -
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24 Years Ago Today It Was Payback Day
Wednesday 16th of October 1991
Mass murderer George Jo Hennard, originally Georges Pierre Hennard commits suicide a shot in the head at the age of 35 in Luby's Cafeteria, Killeen, Texas, United States.
Hennard drove his blue 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the plate-glass front window of the cafetaria while yelling "All women of Killeen and Belton are vipers! This is what you've done to me and my family! This is what Bell County did to me...This is payback day!" Hennard then opened fire with both a 9mm Glock 17 pistol and a 9mm Ruger P89 pistol killing 23 people and wounding another 27. -
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20 Years Ago Today
Monday 16th of October 1995
A Syrian general practitioner is wounded by a bomb sent by 46-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Stronsdorf, Niederösterreich, Austria.
In all Fuchs sent out three mail bombs that day. At the Poysdorf post office 71-year-old Maria Loley is injured while opening a package. In Mistelbach a South-Korean doctor escapes another mail bomb. -
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20 Years Ago Today
Monday 16th of October 1995
43-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Knut Detlef Folkerts is released from prison in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. -
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19 Years Ago Today She Was at Peace
Wednesday 16th of October 1996
35-year-old Sharon Rina Lopatka, originally Sharon Denburg is tortured and strangled by murderer Robert Frederick Glass aka Slowhand in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States.
Lopatka met Glass in an internet chatroom and agreed to be killed in a sado-masochistic sex encounter. -
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18 Years Ago Today
Thursday 16th of October 1997
70-year-old Serial killer András Pándy aka Father Bluebeard is arrested in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. -
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18 Years Ago Today
Thursday 16th of October 1997
39-year-old Serial killer Bai Baoshan is arrested in Beijing, Hebei, China.
Baoshan was charged with 14 murders and sent to Xinjiang province for trial. -
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11 Years Ago Today
Saturday 16th of October 2004
46-year-old Only child of actor Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi Christian Devi Brando marries 48-year-old Deborah Presley in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Deborah Presley was an actress who had won the right to be known as daughter of Elvis Presley in 1989 in Tennessee Supreme court. The marriage lasted a short time and was annulled in June 2005. -
10 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Sunday 16th of October 2005
Drying of fresh corn along the country road in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.
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