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Oct 31 192615:10 Oct 31 2005
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Houdini dies in room 401 of Grace Hospital in Detroit. The escape artist was killed by diffuse peritonitis, after having undergone an emergency appendectomy. Contrary to popular belief, the fatal appendicitis could not have been caused by a punch to the stomach.
Oct 30 193816:55 Oct 30 2005
Times Read: 1,076
CBS radio announces that glistening, black-eyed Martians have landed at Grover's Mill, New Jersey. Luckily for the extraterrestrials, the news is announced during a Mercury Theatre program and later discounted as a work of fiction. Needless to say, the event causes widespread panic before the government manages to clamp a lid on it.
October 29th14:37 Oct 29 2005
Times Read: 1,089
1929
The value of the New York Stock Exchange tumbles 11% in a widespread panic. Thousands of people lose their life savings as 16,410,030 shares change hands. Black Tuesday marks the beginning of the Great Depression.
1997
Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the First Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Bible, dies from a cardiac arrest at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco. His death certificate incorrectly lists the date as October 31. [Pictured: LaVey with Sammy Davis, Jr.]
Oct 26 199718:53 Oct 26 2005
Times Read: 1,102
During a 1,500-person tug-of-war contest in Taipei the rope snaps, suddenly amputating the left arms of Chen Ming-kuo and Yang Chung-ming. The two men had wrapped the rope around their left biceps [big mistake] Both arms are successfully reattached.
Oct 24 199117:14 Oct 24 2005
Times Read: 1,116
Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek science fiction franchise, dies in a Santa Monica, California hospital after a heart attack.
Oct 22 184414:36 Oct 22 2005
Times Read: 1,131
Jesus Christ fails to appear to the Seventh Day Adventists, led by Bible scientist William Miller. The Millerites were expecting the End Times to accompany the appearance of the Saviour, so that didn't happen either.
Oct 18 197421:40 Oct 18 2005
Times Read: 1,155
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, based loosely on Ed Gein's story and originally titled "Headcheese," opens in theatres. One critic describes the film as "a vile piece of sick crap," containing "unrelenting sadistic violence as extreme and hideous as a complete lack of imagination can possibly make it." The movie is later banned in Germany and the UK.
October 1723:39 Oct 17 2005
Times Read: 1,168
Feast day of St. John the Dwarf
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1931
US gangster Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison for income-tax evasion, the only charge that could be sustained against him.
Oct 15 198117:28 Oct 15 2005
Times Read: 1,188
Mork & Mindy's baby finally hatches, who they name Mearth.
Oct 13 198818:35 Oct 13 2005
Times Read: 1,204
A report published in the journal Nature declares the Turin shroud to be a 13th century fake. Although carbon-14 testing places the shroud's fabrication somewhere between 1260 and 1390 AD, true believers spend much of the next several years attempting to explain away the radiocarbon test results.
Oct 12 196612:47 Oct 12 2005
Times Read: 1,216
Sammy Davis, Jr. makes a cameo appearance on the ABC television series Batman, during one of their legendary Batclimbs.
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