ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY!!!
2003-11-09 at 12:26 p.m.
Are brought to you courtesy of The Daily Rotten.
Several quite memorable events occurred today in history-and they were all Indrid's favorite kind...
- Jack the Ripper abso-fucking lutely gutted, flayed, and generally destroyed his final known victim, prostitute Mary Kelly. It was said that she was the youngest and prettiest of his kills, but from the photos left you couldn't tell. He removed her breasts and placed them on the bedside table, among other things.
- Dylan Thomas, on Nov. 9, 1953, finally drank himself to death. We are not sure how gently he went.
- Good ole hardcore Lutheran John Emil List methodically offed his mother, wife, and three teenage children on this day in 1971. Johnny remained on the lam until 1988, when he was discovered living a virtually identical life, sans teenagers, in Richmond Virginia. In a letter he left behind for his pastor he thoughtfully informed preacher, "mother is in the upstairs hallway, she was too heavy to move."
- Last but far from least, on this day in 1938, the Nazis looted and burned synagogues, Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as the "Kristallnacht."
HAPPY NOVEMBER 9th, Y'ALL!!!
