Kenneth Douglas Taylor was a Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman, best known for his role in the 1979 covert operation called the "Canadian Caper" when he was the Canadian ambassador to Iran. With the cooperation of the American Central Intelligence Agency, Taylor helped six Americans escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis by procuring Canadian passports for the Americans to deceive the Iranian Revolutionary guard by posing as a Canadian film crew scouting locations. Before the escape, the six Americans spent several weeks hiding in the homes of Taylor and another Canadian diplomat, John Sheardown.

1934Angelo Buono, American serial killer and rapist (died 2002)^[†]

Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist who, together with his adopted cousin Kenneth Bianchi, raped and murdered ten young women and girls between October 1977 and February 1978 in Los Angeles, California in what became known as the Hillside Strangler murders, as the victims were usually strangled to death and dumped on a hillside. In November 1983, after a two-year long trial, Buono was convicted of 9 counts of murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.

Headlines from October 5, 1934

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MOSES RULES OUT POWER AS ISSUE IN STATE CAMPAIGN; Good as Election Slogan, but Is False, He Tells 2,500 at Notification Meeting. TAKES FLING AT NEW DEAL Declares Parts Unworkable -- Denies Old Guard Tie-Up -- Sees Harmony Restored. MOSES RULES OUT POWER AS ISSUE

$55,640,900 REALTY RESTORED BY CITY TO THE TAX ROLLS; Exempt Property Expected to Yield $1,500,000 Yearly Under Drastic Rule.

President Orders Aid For Distressed Schools

$100,000,000 LOSS CHARGED TO INSULL; Prosecutor at Mail Fraud Trial Says Stock Manipulations Swindled Public. FICTITIOUS SALES ALLEGED Brokers Accused of Getting Million Shares and $525,000 for Floating Securities. $100,000,000 LOSS CHARGED TO INSULL

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