Monday, October 14, 2013

60 Years Ago He Was Bound to Die

139 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 October 1874
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Murderer Pierre Desiré Moreau is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 32 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
A large crowd showed up to witness the public spectacle.

137 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 October 1876
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Gangster Jules Bonnot is born in Montbéliard, France.

123 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 October 1890
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34th president of the USA Dwight David Eisenhower aka Ike, is born in Denison, Texas, United States.

118 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 October 1895
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Murderer J. Q.A. Crews is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Texas, United States.

101 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 October 1912
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Victim of John Reginald Christie, of 10 Rillington Place, Muriel Amelia Eady is born in the United Kingdom.

101 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 October 1912
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54-year-old 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt is shot by John Schrank, but the bullet is plowed down by a bulky speech in the president’s pocket in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 October 1927
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Actor Roger Moore is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 October 1935
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Minimal composer La Monte Thornton Young is born in Bern, Idaho, United States.

70 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 October 1943
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About 300 to 600 prisoners die in an attempt to escape from a concentration-camp in Sobibor, Poland.

69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 October 1944
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Nazi Leader Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel aka The Desert Fox, commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 52 in Herrlingen, Germany.
He was forced to commit suicide because he planned to kill his Führer.

69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 October 1944
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Leader of the Revolutionary Euskadi ta Askatasuna Txabi Etxebarrieta aka Xabier Etxebarrieta Ortiz, is born in Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain.
He was the first ETA-member to be shot dead by the Guardia Civil

69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 October 1944
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Actor Udo Kier originally Udo Kierspe, is born in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 October 1953
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Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long aka Bound to Die, is born in Kenova, West Virginia, United States.

60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 October 1953
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Valentin Lehmann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.

55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 October 1958
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Musician Thomas Dolby originally Thomas Morgan Robertson, is born in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 October 1959
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Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

45 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 October 1968
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Start of the trial against the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll and Horst Sohnlein for an arson-attack on Kaufhaus Schneider in Frankfurter Landgericht, Germany.

43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 October 1970
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Bomb attack by The Proud Eagle Tribe of Weather, the Women's Brigade of the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Harvard Center for International Affairs in Harvard, New York, United States.
It was a reaction to Black Activist Angela Davis' arrest and a protest against the war in Vietnam.

39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 October 1974
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Porn actress Jessica Drake is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 October 1977
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Musician and actor Bing Crosby originally Harry Lillis, dies at the age of 73 in Madrid, Spain.

34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 October 1979
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Alonzo Daniels is abducted, molested and killed by Arthur Bishop at the age of 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 October 1979
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Christie Hayes is abducted and assaulted by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
She managed to escape.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 October 1983
(x) Melvin Reynolds
is released from prison after serving 4 years for a murder committed by 54-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, in Missouri, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 October 1983
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Porn actress Vanessa Lane is born in New York, New York, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 October 1985
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Mafia Godfather Bekir Celenk dies of a heart attack in Turkey.

23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 October 1990
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Composer Leonard Bernstein dies of lung-inefficiency at the age of 72 in New York, New York, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 October 1997
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Writer Harold Robbins originally Francis Kane and given the adoptive name Harold Rubin, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 81 in Monte Carlo, France.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 October 1999
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Murderer Jerry McFadden is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 October 2007
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123 Die in Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 Boeing B767-260ER crash in Le Galawa Beach, Comoros.
The plane had been hijacked by three Ethiopians seeking asylum and finally crashed due to lack of fuel. 52 people survived.

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