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Monthly Archives: October 2014
October 31, 1815
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1815 Sir Humprey Davy of London patented the miner’s safety lamp. His subsequent invention of the miner’s canary hat proved less useful. The miners complained that the canary cage section of the helmet stuck too far above their head and would strike the ceiling of the tunnel and that … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged animals, birds, inventions, London, the english
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October 30, 1993
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1993, America’s first veterinarian in space, Martin Fettman, performed the first dissection of an animal in space while aboard the space shuttle Columbia. The lab-rat, Caesar, was one of the 48 rodents that were brought along for the ride, and Dr. Fettman picked him out for the first dissection … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged astronauts, NASA, rats, rodents, Willard
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October 29, 1982
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1982 independent car manufacturer John Delorean was indicted for drug trafficking. He was later acquitted when Judge Emmitt Brown found that the federal agents and their informant, Biff Tannen, entrapped DeLorean into the drug trafficking scheme. Video was released that showed Tannen calling DeLorean a chicken over and over … Continue reading
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Tagged crime and punishment, DeLorean, drugs, justice, law and order
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October 28, 1992
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1992, the Reverand Lee Jang Rim, founder of the “Mission for the Coming Days” church predicted that the rapture would occur and that Jesus would come back. Hundreds of his followers sold their properties, left their families, quit their jobs and deserted their military posts in anticipation of this … Continue reading
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Tagged rapture, religious cults, South Korea
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October 27, 1988
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1988, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department released information about a suspected assassination-by-hire attempt allegedly orchestrated by Larry Flynt in 1983. It was purported that Flynt wrote Mitchell Livingston WerBell III a $1,000,000 check to kill Frank Sinatra, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, and TV Guide publisher … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Hefner, hitmen, Larry Flynt, Los Angeles, mafia, organized crime, porn, Sinatra
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October 26, 1934
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1934, while Washington Senators player-manager Joe Cronin was honeymooning with his wife Mildred Robertson, the niece and adopted daughter of Senators owner Clark Griffith, his contract was sold to the Boston Red Sox. Cronin called Griffith from San Francisco and asked what was going on. Griffith replied, “I love … Continue reading
October 25, 1920
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1920, King Alexander I of Greece died of blood poisoning after being bitten by his pet monkey, Zeus. Zeus was put on trial and found “not guilty” based on the fact that he was a monkey, and not a Frenchman. The English sent a note and asked the Greek … Continue reading
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Tagged Greece, monkeys, stupid deaths, the english, the french
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October 24, 1901
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1901 Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel and live to tell the tale. She performed this daredevil of a feat on her 63rd birthday. Two days before her attempt, Mrs. Taylor’s support staff sent a domestic orange tabby named … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged cats, daredevil stunts, evil shit cats do, New York, Niagara Falls, women
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October 23, 1987
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1987 France performed a nuclear test at Muruora Island in the South Pacific and the US performed one at the Nevada Test Site. While the US bomb explosion was of course bigger and packed with action and extra special effects, the French explosion had less exposition and better scenery.
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Tagged Nevada, nuclear weapons, Pacific Ocean, the french, US History
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October 22, 1938
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1938 Chester Carlson was able to demonstrate and use successfully his dry copying paper method. Thus was the born the beginning of the Xerox copying machine. Alas, it would be twenty-four years before Enos Stilosky of Bakersfield, CA would have the idea to Xerox his penis and send copies … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged California, men, men behaving badly, penis, technology, Xerox
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