The goose hanging from the stake for a round of "gansrijden" in Berendrecht, Belgium.
1901 (-) Suspected Murderer John Henderson is lynched by burning at the stake in Corsicana, Texas, USA.
1911 (+) Scientology-leader Ron L. Hubbard is born in the USA.
1928 (x) Over 450 Die in St. Francis Dam collapse in Santa Paula, California, USA.
1938 (-) Lawyer Clarence Darrow dies at the age of 80 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1939 (+) Musician Neil Sedaka is born in New York, New York, USA.
1940 (-) Michael O’Dwyer is shot dead by Udham Singh in London, United Kingdom.
1942 (-) Hubert Tracey is shot dead by Charles Lovett at the age of 29 in Abingdon, Virginia, USA.
Lovett had just deserted with James Edward Testerman.
1958 (x) 53-year-old Murderer Nathan Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, is released from prison in Illinois, USA.
1970 (-) Marie Anstey is abducted and presumably killed by Zodiac in Vallejo, Coronado Inn, California, USA.
1971 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a letter to the Los Angeles Times in Pleasanton, California, USA.
1975 (x) Start of the first trial against Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Harrisberg, Pennsylvania, USA.
1980 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is sentenced to death for the murder of 33 boys in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1985 (-) Murderer Stephen Morin is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He had to have probed both arms and legs with needles for 45 minutes before they found the vein.
1988 (-) Hard-core-porn actor John Holmes dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 43 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He performed in hundreds of porn-movies and had sex with an estimated 14.000 women.
1990 (-) Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim commits suicide due to a depression at the age of 86 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1996 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Han Zhenying is arrested after a killing spree in which he killed 63 people in 13 provinces since he was 14 years old in Nanyang County, Hunan, China.
1996 (-) Mass Murderer Thomas Hamilton commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 15 5 and 6-year-old children and a teacher in a school at the age of 43 in Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom.
12 other children were wounded.
2002 (-) Musician Marc Moreland after complications following a liver transplant at the age of 44 in Paris, France.
He was the founder of 'Wall of Voodoo'.
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