25 events for Friday 30 October 2015

• (+) 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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• (x) 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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• (x) 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.




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• 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.