Monday, May 27, 2013

55 Years Ago He Was Doomed to Too Many Things Unseen

186 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1827
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18-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Boston, Fort Independence, Massachusetts, United States.

176 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1837
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Gunfighter James Butler Hickok aka Wild Bill Hickok, is born in Troy Grove, Illinois, United States.

173 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1840
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Composer Niccolo Paganini dies of a lung bleeding due to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 57 in Nice, France.

163 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 May 1850
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Serial Killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, is born in Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

160 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1853
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Slave and murderess Jane Elkins is executed by hanging in Dallas, Texas, United States.
She is the first woman to be executed in Texas.

150 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1863
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Murderer Claudous C. Frizell is executed by hanging in Fort Scott, Kansas, United States.

122 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1891
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36-year-old Writer Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud has his left leg amputated because of carcinoma in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.

119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1894
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Writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches Celine is born in Courbevoie, Asnières, France.

119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1894
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Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett is born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, United States.

116 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 May 1897
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Beaupied is strangled by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 14 in France.

102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1911
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Actor Vincent Leonard Price is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1919
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Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Baden-Baden, Germany.

92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1921
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Robber, kidnapper and rapist Caryl Whittler Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit, is born in St. Joseph, Michigan, United States.

91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1922
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Actor Christopher Frank Carandini Lee known from “Dracula”, is born in Belgravia, Westminster, United Kingdom.

90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1923
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Politician Henry Heinz Alfred Kissinger is born in Fürth, Bayern, Germany.

73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 May 1940
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Murderer Mateo Quinionis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hawaï, United States.

72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1941
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37-year-old Nazi-leader Richard Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Josef Gabcik and Kan Kubis in Prague, Holesovice, Czechoslowakia.

55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1958
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Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is born in Atlanta, Dixie Hills, Georgia, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1960
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Reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze, is born in Rochester, Minnesota, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1966
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6 French army-jets crash due to a lack of fuel in Spain.

44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1969
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Darwin Scott is stabbed to death and mutilated by persons unknown at the age of 64 in United States.
He was the brother of Colonel Smith.

35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1978
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Eric Christgen is abducted and killed by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 4 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 May 1993
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5 Die in a Maffia bomb-attack on the famous Uffizi-Museum in Firenze, Italy.

19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1994
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Triple Murderer Charles Campbell is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, United States.

19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1994
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Cop Killer Stephen Ray Nethery is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 2003
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Composer Luciano Berio dies at the age of 77 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

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