25 events for Friday 9 October 2015

• (x) 216 Years Ago Today Wednesday 9th of October 1799 269 die in HMS Lutine shipwreck in Vlieland, Friesland, Netherlands. HMS Lutine was carrying a large cargo of gold and silver. The only survivor was J. Schabracq.




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• (+) 156 Years Ago Today Sunday 9th of October 1859 Artillery officer and presumed traitor Alfred Dreyfus is born in Mulhouse, Alsace, France.




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• (+) 125 Years Ago Today Thursday 9th of October 1890 The world’s most pulchritudinous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, originally Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy aka Sister Aimee is born in Salford, Ontario, Canada.




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• (+) 117 Years Ago Today Sunday 9th of October 1898 Writer and playwright Tawfīq al-Hakīm is born in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.




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• (+) 107 Years Ago Today Friday 9th of October 1908 Actor and film director Jacques Tati, originally Jacques Tatischeff is born in Le Pecq, Île-de-France, France.




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• (x) 102 Years Ago Today Thursday 9th of October 1913 136 die in SS Volturno fire and sinking in the North Atlantic Ocean. SS Volturno was on a voyage from Rotterdam to New York City and was carrying a mixed load of passengers and cargo that included highly flammable chemicals.




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• (x) 95 Years Ago Today They Were a Hoax Saturday 9th of October 1920 Feral girls Amala and Kamala are rescued from a wolves' den the rector of the local orphanage Joseph Amrito Lal Singh in Midnapore, West Bengal, India. French surgeon Serge Aroles concluded in his book 'L'Enigme des enfants-loup' that the rector's story was a hoax.




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• (+) 89 Years Ago Today Saturday 9th of October 1926 Murderess Ruth Ellis is born in Rhyl, Wales, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 76 Years Ago Today Monday 9th of October 1939 Actress Kitty Ting Hao aka Little Darling is born in Macau, China.




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• (+) 75 Years Ago Today Wednesday 9th of October 1940 Musician John Winston Lennon known from The Beatles is born in Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.




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• (x) 68 Years Ago Today Thursday 9th of October 1947 18-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is convicted for auto theft in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States. Hatcher got a 2 year suspended sentence.




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• (-) 57 Years Ago Today Thursday 9th of October 1958 260th Pope Pius XII, originally Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli dies of heart failure at the age of 82 in Palazzo Apostolico, Castel Gandolfo, Lazio, Italy.




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• (+) 57 Years Ago Today Thursday 9th of October 1958 Murderer Ronald Wayne Frye is born in Hickory, North Carolina, United States.




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• (+) 56 Years Ago Today Friday 9th of October 1959 Victim of Paul John Knowles aka Killing Time Amanda Beth Carr is born in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States.




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• (x) 54 Years Ago Today Monday 9th of October 1961 22-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for arson in Anamosa State Penitentiary, Anamosa, Iowa, United States.




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• (x) 51 Years Ago Today Friday 9th of October 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 13 / Luftballonkonzert' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.




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• (-) 48 Years Ago Today Monday 9th of October 1967 Marxist revolutionary, guerrilla leader and military theorist Ernesto Che Guevara is executed by 31-year-old Mario Terán at the age of 39 in La Higuera, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. In all Guevara was shot nine times by Terán. This included five times in his legs once in the right shoulder and arm, once in the chest and finally in the throat.




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• (+) 40 Years Ago Today He Was John's Birthday Gift Thursday 9th of October 1975 Musician Sean Taro Ono Lennon is born in New York City, New York, United States. Sean was born on his father John Lennon's 35th birthday.




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• (-) 37 Years Ago Today Monday 9th of October 1978 Singer-songwriter Jacques Romain Georges Brel dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 49 in Hôpital Avicenne, 125 Rue de Stalingrad, Bobigny, Île-de-France, France. Brel was suffering from an advanced stage of lung cancer.




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• (x) 35 Years Ago Today Thursday 9th of October 1980 51-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is arrested as Richard Clark for sodomizing a 17-year-old boy in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.




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• (-) 31 Years Ago Today Tuesday 9th of October 1984 89-year-old Suzanne Foucault is asphyxiated by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 19 Rue Nicolet, Paris, XVIIIe, Île-de-France, France. Foucault was discovered in her burning flat by firemen called in for a case of arson.




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• (-) 30 Years Ago Today Wednesday 9th of October 1985 Philatelist and forger Robert L. Haisman commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 60 in Santa Cruz, California, United States. Haisman also killed his 58-year-old wife Beverly Joy.




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• (-) 27 Years Ago Today Sunday 9th of October 1988 Inventor and mechanical engineer Felix Heinrich Wankel known for the Wankel engine dies of cancer at the age of 86 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.




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• (-) 13 Years Ago Today She Thanked Society for Railroading Her Ass Wednesday 9th of October 2002 Serial killer Aileen Carol Wuornos, originally Pittman aka The Florida Highway Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Florida State Prison, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, Florida, United States. Wuornos' last meal request was for Kentucky Fried Chicken and french fries. In an interview shortly before her execution Wuornos' final on-camera words were "Thanks a lot, society, for railroading my ass."




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• 11 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it Saturday 9th of October 2004 A visitor on the opening night of the 'Footnotes & Context' exhibition that included a huge (now permanent) installation by AMVK in the university library in Leuven, Heverlee, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.