Tuesday, May 28, 2013

275 Years Ago Il Cherchait une Machine qui Pût Être Substituée à la Main du Bourreau

275 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1738
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Physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin is born in Saintes, France.

173 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1840
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Artist Hans Makart is born in Salzburg, Austria.

108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 May 1905
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Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is born in Tokyo, Kanda, Japan.

107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 1906
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37-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is convicted to 3 months imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1908
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Writer Ian Lancaster Fleming is born in London, Mayfair, London City of, United Kingdom.

92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 May 1921
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Writer Heinz Gunther Konsalik is born in Köln, Germany.

90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 1923
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Composer Györgi Sándor Ligeti is born in Diciosanmartin, Tirnaeni, Romania.

78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1935
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23-year-old Wife of Adolf Hitler for one day Eva Anna Paula Braun is found unconscious after swallowing 35 tablets of Vanodorm in München, Bayern, Germany.
She recovered a couple of days later.

73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1940
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Belgium capitulates for Nazi-Germany in WWII..

73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1940
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Murderer Boyd Wilson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 44 in Nevada, United States.

71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1942
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Gladys Hosking is strangled by Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
He wanted to get her voice.

69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 May 1944
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Musician Gladys Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1947
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Nazi-doctor in Auschwitz and Mauthausen Friedrich Entress is executed by hanging in Landsberg, Germany.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 May 1948
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Supposed mistress of Adolf Hitler Unity Valkyrie Mitford dies due to injuries inflicted in a suicide-attempt 10 years earlier at the age of 33 in Oban, United Kingdom.

64 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 May 1949
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Musician Wendy O. Orlean Williams aka The Queen of Shock Rock, is born in Webster, New York, United States.

54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1959
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92 Die in train derailment in Java.

49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1964
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34-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for car theft in Oklahoma City, United States.

48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 May 1965
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Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Bihar, India.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 May 1971
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Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is killed in a plane crash at the age of 45 in Catawba, Virginia, United States.
The pilot and four passengers also died.

41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 May 1972
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Ex-King of England Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Edward VIII aka The Duke of Windsor, dies of throat cancer at the age of 77 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, 4 Rue du Champ d'Entrainement, France.

40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 1973
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Artist Jacques Chaim Jacob Lipchitz dies at the age of 81 in Capri, Italy.

39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1974
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6 die in a bomb-attack during an anti-fascist rally in Brescia, Italy.

36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 May 1977
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160 Die in Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, United States.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1981
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Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski aka The Primate of the Millennium, dies at the age of 79 in Warsaw, Poland.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1981
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24-year-old IRA-member Martin Edward Hurson originally Mairtin O hUrsain, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1981
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Christine Schultz is shot into her back and through her heart by Laurie Bembenek aka Bambi, at the age of 30 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1986
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Wilfred Parkes is choked to death by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 70 in London, Stockwell Park Estate, Albamarle House, London City of, United Kingdom.

26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1987
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Murderer Anthony Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 May 1993
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Christopher Dunn is tortured to death by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 37 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1996
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Sabine Dardenne is abducted and held imprisoned by Marc Dutroux at the age of 13 in Kain, Belgium.
She was locked up in a cellar for 80 days.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1997
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47-year-old Serial Killer Thomas Quick originally Sture Ragnar Bergwall, is convicted to indefinite confinement in a security asylum for the criminally insane for the 1988 murder of the Israeli tourist Yinon Levy in Sweden.
This is his fourth conviction for the serial killer who has confessed to 15 killings.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1997
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Double Murderer Robert Madden is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 2002
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Murderer Napoleon Beazley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 25 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 2003
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Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine dies at the age of 86 in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 2007
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Japanese minister of Agriculture Toshikatsu Matsuoka commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in Tokyo, Japan.
He was involved in several corruption scandals.

6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 2007
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Artist Jörg Immendorff dies of heart failure and Lou Gehrig's Disease at the age of 61 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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