Tuesday, October 29, 2013

50 Years Ago He Was Smart Enough to Think of a Better Use for His Pen

357 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 October 1656
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Astrologist Edmund Halley is born in London, Hackney, London City of, United Kingdom.

226 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 October 1787
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The opera "Don Giovanni" by 31-year-old Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premieres in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

116 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 October 1897
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Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels is born in Rheydt, Prussia, Germany.

112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 October 1901
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Assassin Leon Frank Czolgosz aka The Man who shot William McKinley, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Auburn Prison, New York, United States.

102 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 October 1911
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Publisher Joseph Pulitzer originally József Politzer, dies at the age of 64 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 October 1930
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Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 October 1932
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Artist R.B. Ronald Brooks Kitaj is born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 October 1932
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Murderess Velma M. Barfield is born in North Carolina, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 October 1947
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Actor Richard Dreyfuss is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

64 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 October 1949
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Occult Teacher George Ivanowitsch Gurdjieff dies at the age of 83 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, American Hospital, France.

56 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 October 1957
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Rosemarie Nitribitt is choked and her skull crushed by persons unknown at the age of 24 in Frankfurt, Germany.
A number of her clients commit suicide or flee the country in the ensued police-investigation.

50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 October 1963
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14-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, attempts to commit suicide by opening a vein with a pen in Santa Cruz, City Jail, California, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 October 1984
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240 Die in USSR transport plane crash in Kaboul, Afghanistan.

26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 October 1987
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Geneviève M. is attacked by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 85 in Paris 12th, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 October 1997
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Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 67 in San Francisco, California, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 October 1997
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James Loper is shot dead by Louis Peoples at the age of 29 in Stockton, Eight Mile Road near Interstate 5, California, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 October 2002
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Over 60 Die in ITC shopping center fire in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Over 100 people remain missing.

7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 October 2006
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97 Die in Aviation Development Company Flight 53 Boeing 737-2B7 crash in Abuja, Nigeria.
7 people survived.

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