Tuesday, October 8, 2013

140 Years Ago She Would Raise a Family of Boys

144 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 October 1869
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14th president of the USA Franklin Pierce dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 64 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.

142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 October 1871
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Over 300 Die in the great fire in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

140 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 October 1873
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Gangster Kate “Ma” Barker originally Arizona Clark, is born in Ash Grove, Missouri, United States.

132 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 October 1881
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Thief Vincenzo Peruggia is born in Dumenza, Italy.
He stole the "Mona Lisa" in 1911.

118 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 October 1895
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President Juan Domingo Peron is born in Lobos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 October 1912
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Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy aka The Two-Headed Nightingale, die of tuberculosis at the age of 61 in Columbus County, Johns Hopkins Medical College, North Carolina, United States.

93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 October 1920
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Writer Frank Franklin Patrick Herbert known for “Dune”, is born in Tacoma, Washington, United States.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 October 1948
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Punk Rocker Johnny Ramone originally John William Cummings, is born in Long Island, New York, United States.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 October 1948
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Serial Killer Pedro Alonso Lopez aka The Monster of the Andes, is born in Santa Isabel, Colombia.

64 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 October 1949
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Actress Sigourney Weaver is born in New York, New York, United States.

61 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 October 1952
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112 Die in 3 train collision in Harrow, United Kingdom.

61 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 October 1952
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112 Die in three train collision in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 October 1958
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43-year-old Heart-patient Arke Larson is the first man to have a pacemaker implanted in Stockholm, Karolinska Hospital, Sweden.

51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 October 1962
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57-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from prison for the seventh time in Arizona, United States.
She assumed an other name and lived free for seven years.

48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 October 1965
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Punk Rocker C.J. Ramone originally Christopher Joseph Ward, is born in Queens, New York, United States.

43 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 October 1970
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Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Marin County courthouse in Marin County, California, United States.
It was a retaliation for the killings of Black Activists Jonathan Jackson, William Christmas and James McClain.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 October 1981
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27-year-old Serial Killer Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Germany.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 October 1981
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39-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap in the hall of a business classroom in Salt Lake City, University, Utah, United States.
The bomb fails to detonate.

29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 October 1984
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Third bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Honeywell factory, Brussels, Belgium.

28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 October 1985
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Sixteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Electrabel Company building, Brussels, Belgium.

21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 October 1992
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Serial Killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, dies of a heart attack at the age of 43 in Missouri, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 October 1997
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Multiple Murderer Ricky Lee Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
He was sentenced to death for the murders of Steven Fefferman, 16-year-old Jeffery Davis and 27-year-old Sandra Bailey. He also confessed to the murder of 28-year-old Betty Jo Monroe and was a suspect in 8 more murder cases in North Texas.

12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 October 2001
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118 Die in Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines jet collision in Milano, Milano, Italy.

9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 October 2004
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Philosopher Jacques Derrida aka The Father of Deconstructionism, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 74 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

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