Friday, October 18, 2013

115 Years Ago Hatte Sie Nicht Drei Groschen

608 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1405
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210th Pope Pius II originally Enea Silvio Piccolomini, is born in Corsignano, Italy.

596 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 October 1417
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205th Pope Gregorius XII originally Angelo Corrario, dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.

510 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 October 1503
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215th Pope Pius III originally Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, dies of an ulcer in his leg at the age of 64 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
Some sources say he was poisoned.

236 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 October 1777
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Poet, dramatist and writer Heinrich Bernd Wilhelm von Kleist is born in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, Germany.

162 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 October 1851
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The novel "Moby Dick" by 32-year-old Writer Herman Melville is first published as "The Whale" by Richard Bentley in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1898
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Actress Lotte Lenya originally Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 1920
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Musician and politician Melina Mercouri is born in Athens, Greece.

87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 1926
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Actor Klaus Kinski originally Nikolausz Gunther Nakszynski, is born in Zoppot, Poland.

87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 1926
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Musician Chuck Charles Edward Anderson Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1927
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Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is born in Bedzinie, Poland.

82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 October 1931
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Inventor Thomas Alva Edison dies at the age of 84 in West Orange, New Jersey, United States.

74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 October 1939
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Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, is born in New Orleans, Old French Hospital, Louisiana, United States.

69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 October 1944
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Cop Killer Barry Peter Prudom is born in the United Kingdom.

66 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 October 1947
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Leader of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, Luc Jouret is born in Kikwit, Zaïre.

56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1957
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Mass Murderer James Dean Clark is born in Arizona, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1960
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Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is born in Belgium.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1960
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Murderer Jess James Gillies is born in Arizona, United States.

42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 1971
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67-year-old USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin is attacked by an unidentified demonstrator in Ottawa, Canadian Parliament, Canada.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1974
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Melissa Smith is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 17 in Salt Lake City, Midvale, Utah, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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President of the German Employers’ Association Hanns Martin Schleyer is executed after being held prisoner of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe RAF-commando Siegfried Hausner for 44 days at the age of 62 in Mulhouse, France.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Bernd Baader commits suicide by a shot in the head with a FEG 7.65 pistol at the age of 34 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 719, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Jan-Carl Raspe commits suicide by a shot in the head with a Heckler & Koch 9mm pistol at the age of 33 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 716, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
He was alive when guards found him in the morning but died in the hospital.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Gudrun Ensslin commits suicide by hanging with a length of speaker cable at the age of 37 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 720, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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30-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Irmgard Möller stabbs herself four times in the heart region with a pair of scissors in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 725, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
She survived.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 1977
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Triple murderer Lamont Reese is born in Texas, United States.

35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 October 1978
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Assassin of Leon Trotsky, Ramón del Rio Hernández Mercader aka Jacques Mornard aka Frank Jacson, dies at the age of 64 in Havana, Cuba.

28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1985
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ANC-militant Benjamin Moloise is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in South Africa.

22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1991
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Murderer Michael McDougall is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.

22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 October 1991
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Murderer G. W. Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 October 2004
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Tamil Bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is lured into an ambush by the Tamil Nadu State Special Task Force and gunned down at the age of 52 in Paparapatti, Dharmapuri, India.

8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 October 2005
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46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "2 Throatstuckers" with Hanggai throatsinger Yilichi in Beijing, 2Kolegas Bar, China.

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