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609 Years Ago Today
Thursday 6th of November 1406
204th Pope Innocentius VII, originally Cosimo de' Migliorati dies of natural causes at the age of 67 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. -
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323 Years Ago Today
Thursday 6th of November 1692
Poet Louis Racine is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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201 Years Ago Today
Sunday 6th of November 1814
Musician and musical instrument designer Adolphe Antoine-Joseph Sax known for inventing the saxophone is born in Dinant, Namur, Belgium. -
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180 Years Ago Today
Friday 6th of November 1835
Criminologist Cesare Ezechia Marco Lombroso is born in Verona, Veneto, Italy. -
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175 Years Ago Today
Friday 6th of November 1840
Multiple murderer Robert McConaghy is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in State Correctional Institution, 1100 Pike Street, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States.
The rope snapped and McConaghy fell on the floor. While a new rope was prepared McConaghy gave a chilling account of his methodical slaughter of his father-in-law’s wife and five children. -
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135 Years Ago Today
Saturday 6th of November 1880
Modernist writer Robert Mathias Musil known for his novel ‘Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften’ is born in Bahnhofstraße 50, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Kärnten, Austria. -
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122 Years Ago Today He Drank a Glass of Unboiled Water
Monday 6th of November 1893
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies of cholera at the age of 53 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.
While Tchaikovsky's death has traditionally been attributed to cholera, most probably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier from the local river, some have theorized that his death was a suicide. -
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96 Years Ago Today
Thursday 6th of November 1919
Bandleader and composer Ray Joseph Raymond Conniff is born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States. -
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86 Years Ago Today He Didn't Forget About 50 Cents
Wednesday 6th of November 1929
Cop killer Rollin Davisson is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Livingston, Montana, United States.
Davisson had killed Chief of Police Peter Holt because the latter had told him to forget about 50 cents an employer owed him. -
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85 Years Ago Today
Thursday 6th of November 1930
Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Psychiatrische Klinik der Universitären Psychiatrischen Dienste Bern, Bolligenstrasse 111, Waldau, Mittelland, Switzerland. -
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84 Years Ago Today He Was Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Friday 6th of November 1931
Film and theatre director Mike Nichols, originally Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. -
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69 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 6th of November 1946
Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Bartsch was an illegitimate child whose birth mother died of tuberculosis soon afterward, and he spent the first months of his life being cared for by nurses. At 11 months he was adopted by a butcher and his wife in Langenberg, who gave him the name Jürgen Bartsch. -
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60 Years Ago Today
Sunday 6th of November 1955
Spree killer Alton Coleman is born in Waukegan, Illinois, United States. -
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59 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 6th of November 1956
Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Dutroux is born in Brussel, Elsene, Brabant, Belgium. -
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57 Years Ago Today
Thursday 6th of November 1958
16-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) takes her first communion and receives a white prayer book from uncle Bert and auntie Kath Maybury in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Years later, a ticket found in this book led the police to a locker in the railwaystation where Hindley's lover Ian Brady kept pictures and tape-recordings of their crimes. -
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50 Years Ago Today
Saturday 6th of November 1965
Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse dies of natural causes at the age of 82 in New York City, New York, United States. -
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41 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 6th of November 1974
45-year-old Carswell Carr is stabbed to death by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. -
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41 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 6th of November 1974
15-year-old Amanda Beth Carr is strangled by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States.
Knowles attempted to engage in necrophilia with her corpse after murdering Amanda, but his attempts were unsuccessful. -
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38 Years Ago Today
Sunday 6th of November 1977
22-year-old Lissa Elissa Teresa Kastin is abducted and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 703 East Colorado Street, Glendale, California, United States.
Kastin's nude body was left on a highway embankment near the Chevy Chase Country Club in Glendale. -
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25 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 6th of November 1990
22-year-old Svetlana Korostik is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Donleskhoz, Rostov Oblast, Russia.
Chikatilo removed the tip of Korostik's tongue and nipples and ate them at the scene before he covered her naked body with leaves. Korostik was Chikatilo's 53rd and last victim, he was arrested on 20 November 1990 because a policeman had noticed Chikatilo approach a well and wash his face after he left the scene of the murder. -
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18 Years Ago Today
Thursday 6th of November 1997
Murderer Aaron Lee Fuller is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
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