(x) 18-year-old Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve the city in Compiègne, France.
279 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 May 1734
(+) Physician and inventor of Animal Magnetism Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer is born in Moos, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
165 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1848
(+) Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal aka The Glider King, is born in Anklam, Pomerania, Germany.
145 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1868
(-) Trapper Christopher “Kit” Houston Carson dies of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the age of 58 in Fort Lyon, Colorado, United States.
130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1883
(+) Actor Douglas Fairbanks originally Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, is born in Denver, Colorado, United States.
121 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1892
(-) Mass murderer of his first wife and four children and second wife Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston, is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Old Melbourne Gaol, Victoria, Australia.
About 10.000 spectators showed up.
107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1906
(-) Writer Hendrik Ibsen dies of a stroke at the age of 78 in Oslo, Norway.
103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1910
(+) Artist Franz Jozef Kline is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.
103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1910
(+) Musician and bandleader Artie Shaw originally Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, is born in New York City, New York, United States.
95 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 May 1918
(-) Joseph Maggio is hacked to death by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
His wife is also killed in the same event.
90 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1923
(-) Roland Hoch is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1933
(+) Actress Joan Henrietta Collins is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1934
(-) Clyde Barker and Bonnie Parker are shot dead by the police at the age of 25 in Gibsland, Louisiana, United States.
They were lured in an ambush by an accomplice.
79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1934
(+) Musician and inventor Robert Arthur Moog is born in New York, New York, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1936
(-) Multiple Child-Murderer Adolf Seefeld is executed by the Guillotine in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 May 1937
(-) Philantropist and industrialist John Davison Rockefeller dies of arteriosclerosis at the age of 97 in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.
74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1939
(+) Composer Michel Colombier aka Fusion-Sama, is born in Lyon, France.
74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1939
(+) Mountain climber Junko Tabei is born in Japan.
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1945
(-) Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Lüneburg, Germany.
63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1950
(+) Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is born in Sacramento, California, United States.
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 May 1958
(+) Victim of Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, Kathy Sue Miller is born in Seattle, Washington, United States.
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 May 1958
(-) Murderer Emil Tillman commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 41 in Germany.
54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1959
(-) Murderer Edward Eckwerth is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, New York, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1964
(x) 328 Die in soccer riot caused by a denied goal in the game Peru-Argentina in Lima, Peru.
46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1967
(x) 4-year-old Zeena LaVey is the first person to receive a legal Satanic baptism ever in San Francisco, The Church of Satan, California, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1967
(-) Actress Kitty Ting Hao aka Little Darling, dies at the age of 27 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 May 1969
(-) Paul Adam Meyer crashes in the Channel with a Hercules C-130 he had stolen from Cambridge airbase at the age of 23 in Alderney, United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1970
(+) Assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Yigal Amir is born in Herzliya, Israël.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1981
(x) 25-year-old IRA-member Kevin Lynch originally Caoimhghin O Loinsigh, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
(-) Psychopatic killer Roberto Succo aka ‘André’, commits suicide by opening a gas refill in a plastic bag over his head in his prison cell at the age of 26 in Vicenza, Italy.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1989
(x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is sentenced to 5 years probation for sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 May 1991
(-) Murderer Ignacio Cuevas is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1994
(-) George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, dies at the age of 90 in Waterbury, New York, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 May 1997
(-) Artist James Lee Byars dies at the age of 65 in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 2000
(-) Falun Gong member Yulan Mei dies in police detention after she was fatally injured during force-feeding at the age of 44 in Minghang hospital, Beijing, China.
On may 17 she was force-fed by an inmate who had no medical skills at all, the feeding tube was wrongly inserted causing serious injuries. After she returned to her cell she had a headache and started to vomit blood, lapsed into a coma and never regained consciousness again. She was the 19th Falun Gong member to die in police custody.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 2000
(-) Murderer James David Richardson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 2007
(x) 72-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is denied parole for the eleventh time in Corcoran, California, United States.
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