Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 19th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 19th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-19-Z8Z014YAK3

Bummer October 19th

October 19, 1950: Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, age 58, dies after apparently suffering a heart attack and falling down the stairs of her home. 

October 19, 1977: A small fire breaks out aboard the charter plane used by members of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. No one is hurt, but the fire makes Cassie Gaines hesitant to board the plane the next day.

Almanac for October 18th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 18th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-18-B0B114VTQK

Bummer October 18th

October 18, 1984: 26-year-old actor Jon-Erik Hexum dies six days after an accident on the set of a TV show called Cover-Up. He accidentally shoots himself in the head with a gun filled with blanks, and the wadding of one of the blanks severely injures him.

October 18, 2015: Death metal bass player Frank Watkins, who played in the bands Obituary and Gorgoroth, dies at age 47 of cancer.

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 17th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 17th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-17-Black-Poetry-Day-K3K614SOG5

National Library of Wales, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Bummer October 17th

October 17, 1586: Sir Philip Sidney dies of an infection from a thigh wound he’d suffered at the Battle of Zutphen that September, when Sidney loaned his armor to a soldier who’d forgotten his own. Sidney is 32 years old.

October 17, 1814: Eight people die as a result of the a 22-foot-tall vat of fermenting porter bursting and causing a chain reaction of bursting beer barrels in London. Victims either drowned in the resulting flood or died of sudden, acute alcohol poisoning from inhaling the vapors.

October 17, 1873: Cornell University student Mortimer N. Leggett dies during a Kappa Alpha Society hazing ritual that involved walking in the woods blindfolded. Leggett and three others fell into a gorge; the others survived.

October 17, 1955: Wealthy race car driver/playboy Joel Thorne is flying a private plane in North Hollywood, California, when he flies into an apartment building, killing himself and three residents of the building. The youngest victim is two months old.

Almanac for October 16th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 16th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-16-Hedwigs-Day-E1E7FQAKV

Today's Observance: St. Hedwig's Day
Artist Birthday: Nico
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Oscar Wilde

Bummer October 16th

October 16, 1793: Queen Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne of France is executed by guillotine during the French Revolution.

October 16, 1991: A 35-year-old man drove his pickup truck through the window of a restaurant called Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. From inside the truck, he begins firing one Glock 17 pistol and one Ruger P89 pistol at the approximately 150 people eating lunch inside the restaurant. He then exited the truck, shouted a misogynistic rant about his distrust of women, and began selectively shooting people. 

When police arrived, the man engaged in a firefight with them. He was shot by police three times, stated that he would not surrender, and then killed himself by shooting himself in the head. The rampage killed 23 people and wounded 27 others.

Almanac for October 15th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 15th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-15-Little-Nemo-in-Slumberland-I2I414R0PX

Bummer October 15th

October 15, 1917: Dutch exotic dancer Margaretha Zelle, who performs under the stage name Mata Hari (a Malay expression for “the sun”), is executed by a French firing squad, having been accused of spying for Germany in the Great War. Modern biographers believe she was innocent of spying and was scapegoated.

October 15, 2020: 26-year-old South African adult film star and aspiring social media influencer Karissa Rajpaul dies following a cosmetic procedure in Encino, Los Angeles, California. The mother and daughter who performed the “butt lift” procedure, which involved injected silicone into the buttocks, had no formal medical training in this procedure. 

In 2025, both women were convicted of involuntary manslaughter, sentenced to 3-4 years in prison, and then released when it was determined their time had been served.

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Almanac for October 14th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 14th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-14-Like-a-Pie-to-the-Face-D1D414EAWA

Artist Birthday: Shaznay Lewis

Bummer October 14th

October 14, 1925: English entomologist Harold Maxwell-Lefroy dies of poison gas inhalation while experimenting with gases in the attempt to find a gas that kills house fly larvae. 

October 14, 1912: Theodore Roosevelt is shot and slightly wounded while giving a speech in Milwaukee. The then-former president finishes his speech before seeking medical treatment to have the bullet removed.

October 14, 1913: The Senghenydd colliery disaster kills 439 coal miners in Wales. Vapors collectively known as coal damp ignite, causing an explosion.

October 14, 1980: Richard Meeker Jr., the only child of actor Mary Tyler Moore and her first husband, dies of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He had been holding a small .410 shotgun, the model of which was later removed from production because its trigger could be too easily pulled accidentally. Meeker is 24 years old.

October 14, 1994: In an event that foreshadows the 2022 attack on Salman Rushdie, two religious extremists stab and wound Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz outside his home in Cairo. The extremist objected to Mahfouz's novel Children of the Alley, an allegorical story about the three Abrahamic religions.

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Almanac for October 13th

October 13, 1925

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 13th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-13-Wuthering-Heights-G2G414EA7Y

Bummer October 13th

October 13, 1972: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, with 40 passengers and five crew members on board, crashes in the Andes Mountains. Survivors of the crash, many of them members of a rugby team, are forced to eat parts of the deceased since no other food is available. By the time the survivors are rescued on December 23rd, only 16 of them remain.

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