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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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