Saturday, November 2, 2013

110 Years Ago the Bomb Started Going Mad

258 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 November 1755
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Excessive Queen of France Marie Antoinette originally Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

198 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 November 1815
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Mathematician George Boole is born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

148 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 November 1865
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29th president of the USA Warren Gamaliel Harding is born in Corsica, now Blooming Grove, Ohio, United States.

110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 November 1903
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George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is born in New York, New York, United States.

107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 November 1906
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Filmmaker Luchino Visconti di Modrone is born in Milano, Milano, Italy.

100 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 November 1913
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Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster is born in East Harlem, New York, United States.

96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 November 1917
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Writer and murderer Roland B. Molineux dies of syphilis at the age of 49 in a New York asylum, New York, United States.

90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 November 1923
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26-year-old Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, leaves the State Hospital for Mental Defectives to start a killing spree in Napa, California, United States.

71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 November 1942
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Actress Stefanie Powers is born in Hollywood, California, United States.

71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 November 1942
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Sex educator Shere Hite is born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 November 1944
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47-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is arrested, posing as Captain Henri Valéry, a hero for the resistance in Paris, St.-Mandé-Tourelle metro-station, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 November 1944
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Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley dies at the age of 55 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States.
He accidently strangled himself in a system of ropes and pulleys he designed himself to lift him from his bed since he was struck by polio 4 years earlier.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 November 1944
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Musician Keith Noel Emerson is born in Todmorden, United Kingdom.

66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 November 1947
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41-year-old Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes makes the first and only flight of his own designed H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" largest ever floating boat in Long Beach, California, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 November 1947
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Official Irish Republican Army volunteer Joe McCann is born in Belfast, Lower Falls, Ireland.

63 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 November 1950
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Writer George Bernard Shaw dies at the age of 94 in Ayot St. Lawrence, United Kingdom.

61 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 November 1952
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Gangster and kidnapper Patrick Haemers is born in Schaarbeek, Brabant, Belgium.

48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 November 1965
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Quaker Norman Morrison commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 31 in Washington, the Pentagon, District Columbia, United States.
With his act he protested against the use of napalm by US troops in Vietnam.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 November 1972
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Henri Tomey is stabbed and beaten to death by Herbert Mullin in Los Gatos, St. Mary’s church, California, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 November 1974
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Edward Hilliard is strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Macon, Georgia, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 November 1974
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78 Die in Time Go-Go Club fire in Seoul, South Korea.

38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 November 1975
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Writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is driven over with a car by 17-year-old Giuseppe Pelosi at the age of 53 in Rome, Ostia beach, Roma, Italy.

34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 November 1979
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Gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Ennemy n°1, is shot dead by the police in an ambush at the age of 42 in Paris, Place de la Bastille, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 November 1984
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Iona Seicaresco is strangled as third victim by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 71 in Paris 18th, 60 Boulevard de Clichy, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 November 1984
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Murderess Velma M. Barfield is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.
She was the first woman to die by lethal injection in North Carolina.

27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 November 1986
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99 Islamitic Fighters Die in Hercules C-130 crash in Zahedan, Iran.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 November 2004
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Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh is stabbed and shot dead by 26-year-old Mohammed Bouyeri at the age of 47 in Amsterdam, Linnaeusstraat, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
He had just finished a film 'Submission' about violence against women in the Koran. He was working on a new film '0605' about the murder of Pim Fortuyn.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 November 2004
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Murderer Lorenzo Morris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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