29th year - N° 290 Friday, 17 October 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 290 Friday, 17 October 2014

17 October / Today's 9 Events:

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(x) 185 years ago Saturday 17th of October 1829 17-year-old Foundling Kaspar Hauser aka The Wild Child is attacked and wounded by a hooded man who also threatened him with the words "You still have to die ere you leave the city of Nürnberg" in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 165 years ago Wednesday 17th of October 1849 Composer Frédéric François Chopin, originally Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin dies of tuberculosis at the age of 39 in Place Vendôme 12, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 140 years ago Saturday 17th of October 1874 44-year-old Photographer Eadweard James Muybridge shoots Major Harry Larkyns through the heart because he was dating his 23-year-old wife Flora Shallcross Stone and might have fathered their seven-month-old son Florado in Calistoga, California, United States. Upon finding Larkyns, Muybridge said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife" and shot him point-blank. The jury dismissed an insanity plea and acquitted the photographer on the grounds of 'justifiable homicide'.

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(+) 94 years ago Sunday 17th of October 1920 Actor Montgomery Edward 'Monty' Clift is born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

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(+) 81 years ago Tuesday 17th of October 1933 Singer-songwriter Jeanine Deckers aka Sœur Sourire aka The Singing Nun is born in Laeken, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(x) 42 years ago Tuesday 17th of October 1972 27-year-old Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer is sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in Watertown, New York, United States. Instead of standing trial for two child murders Shawcross made a plea bargain with prosecutors that allowed him to plead guilty to the murder of Karen Hill while the charges of murder for Jack Blake were dismissed. In April 1987 Shawcross was paroled and started killing again less than a year later.

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(x) 30 years ago Wednesday 17th of October 1984 Fifth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in C.V.P. Secretariaat, Koning Albertlaan 214, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. It was the fifth action in their Première Campagne Anti-Impérialiste d'Octobre.

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(-) 30 years ago Wednesday 17th of October 1984 Poet, writer and painter Henri Michaux dies of unknown causes at the age of 85 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 17th of October 2005 My mode of transport on the country roads in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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