Saturday, October 5, 2013

30 Years Ago He Was Wrapped in Plastic

300 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 October 1713
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Philosopher and encyclopedist Denis Diderot is born in Langres, France.

222 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1791
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Statesman Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin dies of high fever at the age of 52 in Smolensk, Russia.
Supposedly he overate on a large goose.

184 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 October 1829
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21st president of the USA Chester Alan Arthur is born in Fairfield, Vermont, United States.

165 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 October 1848
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Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is born in Alsace, France.

149 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1864
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Film pioneer Louis Jean Lumière is born in Besançon, France.

133 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 October 1880
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Composer Jacques Offenbach dies at the age of 61 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 October 1919
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Actor Donald Pleasance is born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 October 1930
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48 Die in R 101 Airship crash in Beauvais, France.
It was Britain’s largest aircraft ever and this was it's maiden flight from England to India.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1934
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Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, is born in Rochester, New York, United States.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1934
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Filmmaker Jean Vigo dies of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 October 1936
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Writer and president Václav Havel is born in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1945
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Evelyn Peterson is assaulted and beaten up by William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1949
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IRA-member Michael Gaughan originally Micheal O Gaibhtheachain, is born in Ballina, Ireland.

62 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1951
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Musician Bob Geldof is born in Dublin, Ireland.

51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1962
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Pedophile Walter Quicker commits suicide by hanging at the age of 34 in Walsum, Germany.
He was thought to be a child-murderer, 15 years later Joachim Kroll was to be found the real killer roaming around in Walsum and the Ruhr area.

44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 October 1969
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The Haymarket Police Statute is bombed by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1983
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Inventor Earl Silas Tupper dies at the age of 76 in Costa Rica.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 1984
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Anna Barbier-Ponthus is tortured and strangled as first victim by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 9th, 10 rue Saulnier, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 October 1985
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16-year-old Miss Hungary Csilla Andrea Molnar is crowned in Budapest, Hungary.
Less than a year later she committed suicide.

22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 October 1991
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137 Die in military aircraft crash in Jakarta, Indonesia.

19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1994
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The 46-year-old Leader of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, Luc Jouret is found amongst 48 bodies of members of his church. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning or had been shot to death in Switzerland.
On the same day 5 bodies are also found in Montreal, Canada.

19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 October 1994
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Murderer Walter Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 October 1998
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Murderer Roderick Abeyta is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in State Prison, Nevada, United States.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 October 2004
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Double murderer Edward Green III is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 2007
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353 Die in fishing boat shipwreck in Indonesia.
The boat carried over 400 asylum seekers.

6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 October 2007
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144 schoolchildren Die in coal tip landslide in Aberfan, Wales, United Kingdom.

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