On This Day in Weird, August 26...
1845: Polly Nichols, first known victim of Britain's phantom
serial killer "Jack the Ripper," born Mary Ann Walker in a hovel on
Dean Street, in London.
1883: Leonidas Frank Chaney—better known as Lon Chaney Sr.,
Hollywood's "Man of a Thousand Faces"—born in Colorado Springs,
Colorado.
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