Thursday, February 28, 2013

25 Years Ago Francesca's Parents Had a Clue

107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 February 1906
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Racketeer Bugsy Benjamin Siegel is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

101 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 February 1912
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Mistress of Il Duce Benito Mussolini Clara Claretta Petacci is born in Rome, Italy.

71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 February 1942
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Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkin Jones is born in Cheltenham, Park Nursing Home, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1947
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Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising in Taiwan.
Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.

63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 February 1950
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member Francis Hughes originally Proinsias O hAodha, is born in Bellaghy, Londonderry, Ireland.

57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 February 1956
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Robber, murderer, cop killer and Public Enemy Nº 1 Emile Buisson aka Mimile, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 53 in Paris, France.

56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 February 1957
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Murderer Leonardo Salemi is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1958
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26 children Die in school bus and wrecker truck collision in Floyd County, Levisa Fork River, Kentucky, USA.
It's the worst bus accident in the USA.

53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 February 1960
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Serial Killer Richard ‘Ricky’ Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is born in El Paso, Texas, USA.

53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 February 1960
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Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 February 1971
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31-year-old Performance artist Vito Acconci performs "Security Zone" with Lee Jaffe in New York, Pier 18, New York, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 February 1974
(x) Picasso
’s “Guernica” is sprayed over with the text “Kill Lies All” by art-gallery-owner Tony Shafrazi in New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.

28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 February 1985
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Nine officers die in a mortar attack by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station in Newry, Ireland.

27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1986
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Prime-minister Olof Palme is shot dead at the age of 59 in Stockholm, Sveavägen, Sweden.
The crime remains unsolved and has been a national trauma.

26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 February 1987
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56-year-old Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is arrested and charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

25 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 February 1988
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25-year-old Psychopatic killer Roberto Succo aka ‘André’, is arrested in Mestre, Treviso, Italy.

21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1992
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Double Murderer David Clark is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1997
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Bankrobber Larry Eugene Jr. Phillips commits suicide after being shot in the hand during a shootout with patrol and SWAT officers after leaving the Bank of America he had just robbed at the age of 26 in North Hollywood, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, California, USA.
Ten officers and seven civilians suffered injuries.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1997
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30-year-old Bankrobber Emil Decebal Mătăsăreanu is shot dead in a shootout with patrol and SWAT officers after leaving the Bank of America he had just robbed in North Hollywood, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, California, USA.
Ten officers and seven civilians suffered injuries.

11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 February 2002
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Murderer Monty Allen Delk is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

8 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 February 2005
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127 Die in a suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

100 Years Ago Il Avait Beaucoup Plus de Mémoire et Beaucoup Moins de Souvenirs

152 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 February 1861
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Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, is born in Kraljevec, Hungary.

126 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 February 1887
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Composer Alexander Porphiriewitsch Borodin dies at the age of 53 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

112 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 February 1901
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Artist Marino Marini is born in Pistoia, Italy.

111 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1902
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Writer John Ernst Steinbeck is born in Salinas, California, USA.

100 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1913
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Philosopher Paul Ricoeur is born in Valence, France.

100 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1913
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Writer Irwin Shaw originally Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, is born in South Bronx, New York, USA.

83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1930
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Actress Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is born in Thomasville, Georgia, USA.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 February 1932
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Actress Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Taylor is born in London, United Kingdom.

80 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 February 1933
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24-year-old Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is arrested in Berlin, Germany.

77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1936
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Physiologist Iwan Petrowitsch Pawlow dies at the age of 86 in Leningrad, Russia.
Conscious until his very last moment, Pavlov asked one of his students to sit beside his bed and to record the circumstances of his dying.

76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 February 1937
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2 unidentified women is strangled and stabbed in the head with an icepick by Robert Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor, in New York City, 320 East 50th, New York, USA.

66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1947
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Victim of Ted Bundy, The Only Living Witness, Roberta Kathleen Parks is born in Lakewood, Ohio, USA.

66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1947
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Murderer Walter Graham Rowland is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 February 1955
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Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy, is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1958
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Wife and victim of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy, is born in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 February 1970
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31-year-old Artist Hermann Nitsch the Viennese Actionist, performs his Aktion "Abreaktionsspiel" in München, Aktionsraum 1, Germany.

40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 February 1973
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The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA.

38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1975
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CDU-chairman Peter Lorenz is kidnapped by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Bewegung 2. Juni in Berlin, Zehlendorf, Germany.

29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 February 1984
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Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage State Courthouse, Alaska, USA.

21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1992
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42-year-old Serial Killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka The Pug Dumper aka The Prison Poet aka Jack the Writer, is arrested in Miami, Florida, USA.

17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 February 1996
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Mass Murderer Kenneth Granviel is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 February 2004
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116 Die in SuperFerry 14 bomb explosion in Manila Bay, the Philippines.
Redondo Cain Dellosa later admitted to planting the bomb on board for the Abu Sayyaf Islamic guerrilla group.

9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 February 2004
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49-year-old Cult Leader of the Aum Shinrikyo aka Aleph religious group Shoko Asahara originally Chizuo Matsumoto, is sentenced to death by hanging in Tokyo, Japan.

6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 February 2007
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Double murderer Donald Miller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

105 Years Ago the Duck was Daffy

635 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1378
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201st Pope Gregorius XI originally Pierre Roger de Beaufort, dies in Rome, Italy.

211 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1802
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Writer Victor Marie Hugo is born in Besançon, France.

184 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1829
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Clothing manufacturer Levi Löb Strauss is born in Buttenheim, Bavaria, Germany.

167 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1846
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Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill, is born in Le Claire, Iowa, USA.

161 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1852
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Mass-murderess Helène Jegado is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Rennes, Champ-de-Mars, France.
She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years.

161 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1852
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Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, USA.

105 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 February 1908
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Animation artist Frederick “Tex” Bean Avery is born in Taylor, Texas, USA.

104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1909
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Murderer C. Y. Timmons is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Oregon, USA.

99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1914
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Murderer George Ball is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Liverpool, Walton Prison, United Kingdom.

95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 February 1918
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Over 3000 Die in Provence crusier shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.

85 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 February 1928
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Musician Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1932
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Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, USA.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1943
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First commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies in a plane-crash while performing a battlefield reconnaissance during the opening stages of the Third Battle of Kharkov at the age of 50 in Artelnoye, USSR.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1943
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The first transport of Gypsies arrives in Buchenwald-KZ, Germany.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1943
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Murderer William E. Wallace is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 54 in Oregon, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 February 1958
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Writer Michel Thomas Houellebecq is born in Réunion, France.

54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1959
(x) Peter Paul Rubens
“Der Höllensturz der Verdammten” is attacked with acid by 52-year-old Philosopher and adventurer Walter Menzl in München, Alte Pinakothek, Germany.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1971
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Actor Fernand Contandin aka Fernandel, dies of cancer at the age of 67 in Paris, Avenue Foch, France.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1971
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Lynda Kanes is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Angwin, California, USA.
Her body is found 8 days later, nude and wrapped in an American flag.

35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 February 1978
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Poisoness of her mother, husband, mother-in-law and son, Audrey Marie Hilley dies of a heart attack due to hypothermia at the age of 53 in Blue Mountain, Vermont, USA.
She jumped parole and wandered through the woods for 5 days.

29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 February 1984
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Rosario Gonzalez is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 20 in Miami, Florida, USA.

15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1998
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Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil (Isabel Dorsett), dies of breast cancer at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 February 2000
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Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell with the cable of an electric razor at the age of 50 in Gralla, Styria, Austria.

Monday, February 25, 2013

30 Years Ago His Gag Reflex Failed

513 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 February 1500
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Emperor of Germany, Charles is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

172 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 February 1841
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Artist Pierre Auguste Renoir is born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.

171 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 February 1842
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Writer Karl Friedrich May known for Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, is born in Ernstthal, Saxony, Germany.

148 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 February 1865
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Jane Taylor is poisoned by Dr. Edward Pritchard in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

140 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 February 1873
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Tenor Enrico Caruso is born in Napoli, Italy.

134 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 February 1879
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Charles Frederick Peace aka The Murderous Musician, is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Leeds, Armley Gaol, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
"Lion-hearted I've lived, And when my time comes Lion-hearted I'll die."

119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 February 1894
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Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, is born in Pune, India.

114 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 February 1899
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Journalist and founder of the Reuters news agency Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter aka Joseph Josephat, dies at the age of 82 in Nice, Villa Reuter, France.

96 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 February 1917
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Writer Anthony Burgess is born in Manchester, Harpurhey, United Kingdom.

93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 February 1920
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Cult-leader Sun Myung Moon is born in Sangsa-ri, North Korea.

92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 February 1921
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Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte aka Minister of Unemployment and Assimilation, is born in Quebec, Canada.

91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 February 1922
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Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 52 in Paris, France.

82 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 February 1931
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Serial Killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, is born in Perth, Australia.

70 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 February 1943
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Beatle George Harrison aka L’Angelo Misterioso, is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 February 1945
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Japanese minister of Agriculture Toshikatsu Matsuoka is born in Aso, Kumamoto, Japan.

60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 February 1953
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Artist Martin Kippenberger is born in Dortmund, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 February 1957
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IRA-member Raymond Peter McCreesh originally Réamann Mac Raois, is born in Camlough, Armagh, Ireland.

54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 February 1959
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Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is born in North Carolina, USA.

49 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 February 1964
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Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko dies at the age of 76 in New York, New York, USA.

46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 February 1967
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35-year-old Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, escapes from Bridgewater Hospital but is arrested 2 days later in Lynn, Massachussets, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 February 1969
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Revolutionary student Jan Zajic commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 18 in Prague, Wenceslas Square, Czechoslowakia.

43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 February 1970
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Artist Mark Rothko originally Marcus Rothkowitz, commits suicide by slashing his wrists at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 February 1978
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Son of Kelly Boyd and Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, Ryan Bianchi is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 February 1980
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Michael Gluck is beaten to death by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, in Goshen, Oregon, USA.

33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 February 1980
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Cassidy Johnson aka ‘Muffin’, is smothered by Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, at the age of 2 in Blountstown, Florida, USA.

32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 February 1981
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Jill Martin is sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 18 in Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
She survived.

31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 February 1982
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22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Resonantiepunctie" in an exhibition of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Antwerpen, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 February 1983
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Writer Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams chokes to death on an eyedrop bottle cap at the age of 71 in New York, New York, USA.
The police report, however, suggested his use of drugs and alcohol contributed to his death.

23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 February 1990
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87 die in Happy Land Social Club fire, by Arsonist Julio Gonzales because of a row with his girlfriend and his eviction from the club in New York, The Bronx, New York, USA.

19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 February 1994
(x)
Mass Murderer Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Muslim worshipers in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank, Israël.
He killed 29 of them before being bludgeoned to death by survivors.

18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 February 1995
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Writer James Herriot originally James Alfred Wight, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 78 in Thrilby, United Kingdom.

8 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 February 2005
(x)
60-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, is arrested in Park City, 6022 61st and Independence, Kansas, USA.

6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 February 2007
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Murderer Richard Head Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

60 Years Ago Das Oberbefehl Endete

281 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 February 1732
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Aristocrat Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General, dies at the age of 56 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

246 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 February 1767
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Murderer Patrick Redmond is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
After 28 minutes he was declared dead, he was taken down and revived after 6 hours by the use of bronchotomy.

227 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 1786
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Philologist and folklorist Wilhelm Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany.

138 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1875
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102 Die in SS Gothenburg shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 1922
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Pop Art pioneer Richard Hamilton is born in London, Pimlico, United Kingdom.

74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 1939
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Murderer Franklin Pierce McCall is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Florida, USA.

64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1949
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Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is born in Arizona, USA.


64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1949
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Rote Armee Fraktion “Bewegung 2. Juni” member Thomas Weisbecker is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 February 1953
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Parenticider Miles Giffard is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Bristol, United Kingdom.

60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 February 1953
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War leader Gerd Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt dies at the age of 77 in Hannover, Germany.

59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1954
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Musician Roger Marie François Jouret aka Plastic Bertrand, is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

58 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1955
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Spree Killer Woo Bum-kon is born in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 1956
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Sex-murderer Arthur Ross Brown is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Prison, Missouri, USA.

53 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1960
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Murderer Earl Steward is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 41 in Nevada, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 February 1969
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17-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, escapes from reformatory school to the Netherlands in Ruiselede, Antwerp, Belgium.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1972
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98 Die in department-store fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1972
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Frank Aguirre is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 19 in Houston, Texas, USA.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 February 1973
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20-year-old Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, Toni Antoinette Denise White, James Cyril Cendrillon and Alphons Joseph Klimek in Hampton, United Kingdom.

26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 February 1987
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28-year-old Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin his father Ben commits suicide by a pain-killer overdose in New York, New York, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1999
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Murderer Karl Hinze LaGrand is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1999
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Murderer Norman Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 2000
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Double murderess Betty Lou Beets is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
She had been convicted of shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on August 6, 1983. Also found buried in a garage were the remains of Doyle Wayne Barker, another husband of her.

7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 2006
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Actor Dennis Weaver dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Ridgway, Colorado, USA.

3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 2010
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27-year-old Juvenile murderer Jon Venables is arrested on allegations of possessing child pornography in United Kingdom.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

165 Years Ago It Was the Last of Earth

1381 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 February 632
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Prophet and founder of Islam Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah delivers his Last Sermon aka Khutbatul Wada' in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

596 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 February 1417
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211th Pope Paul II originally Pietro Barbo, is born in Venice, Italy.

566 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1447
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207th Pope Eugenius IV originally Gabriele Condulmer, dies at the age of 109 in Rome, Italy,

328 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1685
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Composer Georg Friedrich Handel is born in Halle, Germany.

165 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 1848
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5th president of the USA John Quincy Adams dies of a cerebral hemorrhage two days earlier at the age of 80 in Washington, Capitol Building, Speaker's Room, District Columbia, USA.
His last words were "This is the last of earth. I am content."

163 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1850
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Hotelier César Ritz is born in Niederwald, Switzerland.

135 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1878
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Suprematist artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich is born in Kiev, USSR.

128 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1885
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Murderer John Lee aka The Man They Couldn’t Hang, is brought upon the scaffold 3 times to be hanged, but the trapdoor refuses to open upon each attempt. He will at last be repreived in Exeter Jail, United Kingdom.

116 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1897
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Celestin Gautrais is stabbed to death by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, in France.

109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1904
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Leader of the ‘Rote Kapelle’ spy-ring Leopold Trepper is born in Nowy Targ, Poland.

107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1906
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Murderer of his 24 wives Johan Hoch is executed by hanging in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1924
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28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson dies at the age of 67 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 February 1930
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Nazi activist Horst Ludwig Wessel known for “Die Fahne Hoch” aka Das Horst-Wessel-Lied, dies due to injuries after an assault on 14 January 1930 at the age of 22 in Berlin, Germany.

83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 February 1930
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Hildegard Eid is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 24 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She survived.

82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1931
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Cop Killer ‘Iron’ Irene Schroder aka Tiger Girl, is executed by Old Sparky in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, USA.
She was the first woman to die in the Pennsylvania Electric Chair.

82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1931
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Pop artist Tom Wesselmann is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1937
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An unidentified woman is hacked to death by The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Lake Erie, East 156th street, Ohio, USA.

74 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 February 1939
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Actor Peter Fonda is born in New York, New York, USA.

69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 1944
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Musician Johnny John Dawson III Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, USA.

69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 1944
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Inventor of Bakelite Leo Hendrik Baekeland dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 80 in Beacon, New York, USA.

67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1946
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28-year-old Serial Killer Neville George Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is found whipping an unidentified girl in London, Strand Palace Hotel, United Kingdom.

48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1965
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Actor Stan Laurel originally Arthur Stanley Jefferson, dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 1966
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Seventh victim of Bobby Joe Long aka Bound To Die, Virginia Johnson is born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1970
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Daughter of Marlon, Cheyenne Tarita Brando is born in Tahiti.

42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1971
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An unidentified woman is assaulted by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.

38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 February 1975
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26-year-old Manson Family member Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz, is baptised by Chaplain Sargent Wright in Frontiera, Institution for Women, California, USA.

37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1976
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Start of the first trial against 29-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Salt Lake City, Metropolitan Hall of Justice, Utah, USA.

32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1981
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48-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina attempts a military coup in Madrid, Spain.
He failed.

32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1981
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Gabriella Bohn is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1985
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Over 100 Die in train derailment in Calcutta, India.

23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1990
(x)
30-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Body Art" in Bern, Galerie Lydia Megert, Switzerland.

17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1996
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Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
He was the first man to be executed by lethal injection in California.

17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1996
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Convicted Robber Paul Wilson tries to strangle 49-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, with the flex of a headphone in Broadmoor Hospital, Henley Ward, United Kingdom.
Stockwell Strangler Kenneth Erskine came to rescue Sutcliffe.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 2000
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Murderer Cornelius Alan Goss is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, February 22, 2013

60 Years Ago His Mesmering Eyes Saw the Light

364 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1649
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245th Pope Benedictus XIII originally Pietro Francesco Orsini, is born in Gravina, Puglio, Italy.

281 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1732
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1st president of the USA George Washington is born in Bridges Creek, Virginia, USA.

225 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1788
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Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is born in Sztutowo, Poland.

216 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1797
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Adventurer and outrageous tale teller Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen dies at the age of 76 in Bodenwerder, Germany.

206 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1807
(-)
Murderer John Holloway is executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.

206 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1807
(-)
Murderer Owen Haggerty is executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.

206 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1807
(-)
Murderess Elisabeth Godfrey is executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.

129 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1884
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Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer William Buehler Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York, is born in Westminster, Maryland, USA.

117 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 February 1896
(+)
Poet Paul Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

114 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1899
(+)
Actor in many Universal horror movies Dwight Iliff Fry is born in Salina, Kansas, USA.

113 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 February 1900
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Filmmaker Luis Bunuel aka Le Chien Andalou, is born in Calanda, Spain.

98 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1915
(x)
70-year-old Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt has her right leg amputated in the United Kingdom.

92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 February 1921
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Military Ruler Jean Bédel Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa is born in Bobangi, Moyen-Congo.

85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1928
(+)
Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths Clarence 13X originally Clarence Smith aka The Father, is born in Danville, Virginia, USA.

76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1937
(x)
28-year-old Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, is considered mentally sick and sent to psychiatric care for life in Västerås, Sweden.
The other gang members, Eric Hedström, Roland Abrahamsson, Herbert Jansson and Åke Lindberg were sentenced to life imprisonment.

71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1942
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Writer Stefan Zweig commits suicide by an overdose of Veronal at the age of 60 in Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Brazil.
His girlfriend Lotte joins him in death.

71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1942
(x)
The first ‘low-pressure’ experiments are carried out on prisoners of war by 61-year-old Nazi-doctor and aeronautic experimentor Hans August Rascher in Dachau-KZ, Germany.

71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1942
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Model and showgirl Christine Keeler known from the Profumo Affair, is born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1943
(-)
Leader of The White Rose resistance group Sophie Magdalene Scholl is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in München, Stadelheim Prison, Germany.
Her brother Hans and their friend Christoph Probst were also executed, convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich.

69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 February 1944
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Filmmaker Jonathan Demme is born in Baldwin, New York, USA.

63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1950
(+)
Musician Genesis P-Orridge is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.

63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1950
(+)
Actress Sylvette Herry aka Miou-Miou, is born in Paris, France.

61 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1952
(+)
Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Werner Lotze is born in Mühlheim-an-den-Ruhr, Germany.

60 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1953
(+)
National Hero Romas Kalanta aka The Young Man with the Mesmerizing Eyes, is born in Kaunas, Lithuania.

53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1960
(x)
123 Die in coal-mine explosion in Zwickau, Germany.

45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 February 1968
(-)
Patricia Docker is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 25 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 February 1973
(x)
Over 200 Die in ferry and freighter collision in Rangoon, Birma.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1974
(x)
23-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with public indecency in Portland, Oregon, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1974
(-)
Would-be Assassin of President Richard Nixon Samuel Joseph Byck commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 44 in Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Maryland, USA.
He attempted to hijack the Delta Air Lines Flight 523 DC-9 to Atlanta and crash it into the White House. Two people died in a shootout before he shot himself.

29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1984
(-)
Marta Rjabenko is stabbed to death and her nipples and uterus cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.

26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1987
(-)
Artist and filmmaker Andy Andrew Warhol aka The Pope of Pop, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in New York, New York, USA.
He died in his sleep after recovering from a gall-operation.

15 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1998
(-)
Serial Killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, dies of cardiac arrest due to a fatal combination of drugs at the age of 73 in Florence, Italy.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 February 2007
(-)
Double murderer Newton Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

500 Years Ago Papa Non Era Così Suona Orribile

500 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 February 1513
(-)
216th Pope Julius II originally Giuliano Della Rovere aka The Fearsome Pope, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Italy.

336 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 February 1677
(-)
Philosopher Baruch de Spinoza dies at the age of 44 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

165 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1848
(x)
Economist Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto in London, United Kingdom.

137 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1876
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Artist Constantin Brancusi is born in Pestiani, Goj, Romania.

110 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 February 1903
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Erotic writer Anaïs Nin originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, is born in Neuilly, France.

106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 February 1907
(x)
142 Die in SS Berlin shipwreck in Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands.

103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1910
(+)
Supreme Maffia-boss Carmine Galante aka Lillo the Cigar, is born in New York, New York, USA.

88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 February 1925
(+)
Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence, is born in Fresno, California, USA.

88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 February 1925
(x)
Inauguration of a monument in memory of the victims of Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover, Stocken-cemetary Abteilung 49D/189-192, Germany.

88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 February 1925
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Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan is born in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.

83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 February 1930
(-)
Murderess Eva Dugan is executed by hanging at the age of 52 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
She was the only woman ever executed in Arizona. In a gruesome footnote during the execution, her body separated from her head, which rolled at the feet of the spectators.

80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 February 1933
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Singer, songwriter and civil rights activist Nina Simone aka The High Priestess of Soul, is born in Tyron, North Carolina, USA.

69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1944
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Poet Herman De Coninck is born in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.

48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 February 1965
(-)
Revolutionary leader Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, is shot in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun by Thomas Hagan at the age of 39 in Manhattan, Audubon Ballroom, New York, USA.

41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1972
(x)
Eight members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, rob the Hypo-Bank of 285.000 marks in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 February 1973
(x)
108 Die in Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 Boeing 727-224 crash in the Sinaï Desert.
The plane was shot down by Israeli Jet-fighters.

18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 February 1995
(-)
Murderer Samual Hawkins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

20 Years Ago He Didn't Leave the Pitstop No More

582 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 February 1431
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206th Pope Martinus V originally Oddone Colonna, dies at the age of 93 in Rome, Italy.

146 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 February 1867
(-)
Murderer Martin W. Bates is executed by hanging in Burlingame, Kansas, USA.

118 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 February 1895
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Henri Valéry , an alias used by Marcel Petiot, The Triangular Chamber of Death, is born in Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime, France.

109 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1904
(+)
USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

104 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1909
(x)
32-year-old Artist Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes the Futurist Manifesto in the Le Figaro newspaper in Paris, France.

102 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 February 1911
(-)
Mass-poisoner John James Hutchinson commits suicide by Prussic acid in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 February 1912
(+)
Writer Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle known for “Planet of the Apes”, is born in Avignon, France.

88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 February 1925
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Filmmaker Robert Altman is born in Kansas City, Montana, USA.

87 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1926
(-)
Clara Newman is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in San Francisco, California, USA.

86 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 February 1927
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Actor Sidney Poitier is born in Miami, Florida, USA.

72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 February 1941
(-)
Lisa Nowak is beaten to death by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 30 in Berlin, Germany.

59 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1954
(+)
Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1960
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Murderer and son of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, Joey Kallinger is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 February 1962
(x)
40-year-old Astronaut John Herschel Glenn is the first US-astronaut to fly around the earth in Space.

46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 February 1967
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Musician Kurt Donald Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1971
(x)
46-year-old Dictator Idi Amin Dada is chosen for president by the army in Uganda.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 February 1987
(x)
44-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap behind the CAAMs computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
One person is injured when moving the package.

22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 February 1991
(-)
Murderer Lawrence Buxton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1993
(-)
Car designer Ferrucio Elio Arturo Lamborghini dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 February 2002
(-)
Murderer Robert Frederick Glass dies of a heart attack in Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institute, North Carolina, USA.
He had fulfilled his victim's wish to be tortured and strangled to death.

8 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 February 2005
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Writer Hunter Stockton Thompson aka the creator of Gonzo journalism, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 67 in Woody Creek, Colorado, USA.
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun—for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax—This won't hurt."

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 February 2006
(x)
46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, starts "Diggin' for Gordon" at an undisclosed location in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

50 Years Ago El Ritmo Domesticado El Barbaro

540 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 February 1473
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Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, Poland.

288 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1725
(-)
Innkeeper Mme Millet dies of spontaneous human combustion in Rheims, France.

133 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 February 1880
(+)
General Alvaro Obregon is born in San Angel, Mexico.

115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 February 1898
(+)
Sect-leader Lauwrens ‘Lou’ Voorthuyzen aka De Palingboer, is born in the Netherlands.

89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1924
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Actor Lee Marvin is born in New York, New York, USA.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 February 1943
(-)
Murderer James C. Rawlins is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 46 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1946
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Anti-Nuclear activist Karen Gay Silkwood is born in Longview, Texas, USA.

62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(-)
Murderer Jean Lee is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.

62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(-)
Murderer Robert David Clayton is executed by hanging in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.

62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(-)
Murderer Norman Andrews is executed by hanging in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.

62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(-)
Writer André Gide dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.

62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
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Triple Murderer Stephen Peter Morin is born in USA.

61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1952
(-)
Writer Knut Hamsun dies at the age of 92 in Grimstad, Nørholm, Norway.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 February 1958
(x)
180 Die in coal-mine explosion in Asanoi, India.

50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1963
(-)
Musician Beny Moré aka El Barbaro Del Ritmo, originally Bartolome Maximilliano, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Havana, Cuba.

47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 February 1966
(-)
Stanislawa S. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Grudkow, Poland.
She survived.

33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1980
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Musician Bon Ronald Belford Scott known from AC/DC, dies of pulmonary aspiration of vomit at the age of 33 in London, United Kingdom.
He was left to sleep in a car at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, South London after he passed out after a night of heavy drinking in the Music Machine club.

28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1985
(x)
148 Die in Iberia Boeing crash in Bilbao, Spain.
It collided into a mountain.

24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 February 1989
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Daughter of Tex Watson of the Manson Family, Mary Elisabeth Watson is born in Texas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 February 1999
(-)
Murderer Wilford Berry aka The Volunteer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.
He was the first person to be executed in Ohio since 1963.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 2002
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Murderer John W. Byrd is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 February 2009
(x)
49-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Oprichting en Manifest van het Bastardisme" at a literary event in Brussel, Passa Porta, Brabant, Belgium.

Monday, February 18, 2013

80 Years Ago an Ocean Child Washed Ashore

558 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 February 1455
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Artist Fra Angelico originally Guido di Pietro, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Italy.

497 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1516
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Queen Mary Tudor aka Bloody Mary, is born in Greenwich, United Kingdom.

467 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 1546
(-)
Reformer Martin Luther dies of an apoplectic stroke at the age of 62 in Eisleben, Germany.

449 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 February 1564
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Artist Buonarotti Michelangelo dies of a stroke at the age of 89 in Rome, Italy.

268 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1745
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Physicist Alessandro Guiseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta is born in Como, Italy.

121 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1892
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Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, is born in Japan.

117 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 February 1896
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Writer André Breton aka The Father of Surrealism, is born in Tinchebray, Orne, France.

110 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 February 1903
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USSR-leader Nikolay Viktorovitsch Podgorny is born in Russia.

107 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 February 1906
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Pediatrician Hans Asperger is born in Vienna, Austria.

94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 February 1919
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Actor Jack Palance originally Volodymyr Palahnyuk, is born in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA.

81 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1932
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Filmmaker Milos Jan Tomá Forman is born in áslav, Czechoslowakia.

80 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 February 1933
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Artist Yoko Ono is born in Tokyo, Japan.

64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1949
(-)
Olive Durand-Deacon is shot dead and dumped in sulphuric acid by John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, at the age of 69 in Crawley, Leopold Road, Sussex, United Kingdom.

59 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1954
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Actor John Travolta is born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.

57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 February 1956
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Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Horst Ludwig Meyer is born in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.

52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 February 1961
(x)
Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 12-year-old boy in Mont Cochon, Jersey.

50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 1963
(-)
Gertrude Gruen is attacked and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
She survived.

46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 February 1967
(-)
Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Julius Oppenheimer dies of throat cancer at the age of 62 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1972
(x)
The California Supreme Court vote 6 to 1 to abolish the Death Penalty in California, USA.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1972
(x)
26-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden starts his performance "Bed Piece" in Venice, Market Street, California, USA.
It lasted until 10 march 1972.

40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 February 1973
(x)
An ultra-right commando steals the coffin of Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain and re-buries it near the Battlefield in Verdun, France.

31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1982
(-)
Detective-writer Ngaio Edith Marsh dies at the age of 86 in New Zealand.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1983
(x)
Fourteen people are gunned down during a robbery by Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng in Seattle, Wah Mee Club, Washington, USA.
Only Wai Y. Chin survived the massacre and later testified in court against the three robbers.

22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 1991
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Curtis Straughter is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 1991
(x)
Two IRA bombs explode in London, Paddington and Victoria stations, United Kingdom.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 February 1997
(-)
Joyce Dickerson is strangled by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 37 in Springfield, downtown, Massachussets, USA.

12 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 February 2001
(-)
Artist Balthasar de Rola Klossowski aka Balthus, dies at the age of 93 in Rossinière, Switzerland.

5 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 2008
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Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet dies of heart failure at the age of 85 in Caen, France.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

25 Years Ago the Girl in the Cellar Saw the Light

413 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 February 1600
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Philosopher and mathematician Giordano Filippo Bruno is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 52 in Rome, Campo de' Fiori, Italy.
When the fire had died out his ashes were dumped into the Tiber river.

340 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 February 1673
(-)
Playwriter Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière dies of an imagined disease causing vomiting of blood at the age of 51 in Paris, France.

165 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 February 1848
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Last Official Executioner of Sweden Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman is born in Sweden.

159 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 February 1854
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Artillery-engineer Friedrich Alfred Krupp is born in Essen, Germany.

157 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 February 1856
(-)
Poet Heinrich Christian Johann Heine dies of multiple sclerosis at the age of 58 in Paris, France.

104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 February 1909
(-)
Last Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, Goyathlay Geronimo aka The One Who Yawns, dies of pneumonia after he fell from his horse and lay in the cold all night at the age of 79 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 February 1929
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Writer and Rabbi Chaim Herman Harold Potok is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 February 1929
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Actress Patricia Katherine Routledge aka Hyacinth Bucket, is born in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

79 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 February 1934
(-)
Third King of Belgium Albert I originally Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad, falls off a mountain at the age of 58 in Marche-les-Dames, Belgium.

71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 February 1942
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Black Panther Huey Percy Newton is born in Monroe, Louisiana, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 February 1970
(x)
26-year-old Murderer Jeffrey Robert MacDonald stabs his pregnant wife Colette and two daughters 5-year-old Kimberley and 2-year-old Kristen to death in a self-created Manson-inspired attack in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 February 1974
(x)
48 Die in soccer riot during the game Zamalek-Dukla Prague in Egypt.

32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 February 1981
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Heiress and media personality Paris Whitney Hilton is born in New York City, New York, USA.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 February 1982
(-)
Composer Thelonius Sphere Monk dies of a stroke at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 February 1984
(-)
Sigurd Bessener is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 81 in Berlin, Schöneberg, Germany.

27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 February 1986
(-)
Religious leader Jiddu Krishnamurti dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 90 in Ojai, California, USA.
His ashes were scattered in India, England and the USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 February 1986
(x)
69 Die in 2-train collision in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
They crashed head-on into each other.

27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 February 1986
(x)
70 Die in bus crash in Suhamgano, Bangladesh.
It drove into a river.

25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 February 1988
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Victim of Wolfgang Priklopil, Natascha Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar, is born in Vienna, Donaustadt, Rennbahnweg 38, Austria.

21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 February 1992
(x)
31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 February 1993
(x)
28-year-old Serial Killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, is arrested in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 February 2004
(-)
Triple murderer Cameron Todd Willingham is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 February 2005
(-)
Multiple murderer Dennis Wayne Bagwell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 February 2007
(-)
Collaborator and right wing politician Maurice Papon dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 96 in France.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

90 Years Ago Tutankhamun Saw the Light

243 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1770
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Porter Zaro Agha is born in Turkey.
He became the oldest man in the world and died at the age of 164.

165 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 February 1848
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Writer Octave Mirbeau is born in Trévières, France.

114 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 February 1899
(-)
President of France Félix Faure dies in the act of making love to murderess Marguerite Steinheil at the age of 50 in Paris, France.

96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1917
(-)
Writer Octave Mirbeau dies at the age of 69 in Paris, France.

90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1923
(x)
48-year-old Archaeologist Howard Carter opens the inner chamber of the tomb and first sees the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.

87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1926
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Filmmaker John Richard Schlesinger is born in London, United Kingdom.

78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 February 1935
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Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bono known from Sonny & Cher, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 February 1942
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Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Jong-il Kim originally Yuri Irsenovich Kim, is born in Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.
Official North Korean records say he was born in Mt. Baekdu, Japanese Korea.

71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 February 1942
(x)
28-year-old Serial Killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, is arrested in London, United Kingdom.

59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1954
(-)
Wife-murderer and matricider Donald Merret aka Ronald Chesney, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 46 in Köln, Germany.

59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1954
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Mass Murderer Hastings Arthur Wise is born in South Carolina, USA.

58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 February 1955
(x)
Over 100 Die in elderly home fire in Yokohama, Japan.

55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 February 1958
(-)
Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 33 in Hannover, Zuchthaus Celle, Germany.

51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1962
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Coil musician John or Jhonn Balance originally Geff Rushton, is born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 February 1963
(-)
Constance Madrill is raped and strangled by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, in West Perth, Western, Australia.

48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1965
(-)
Bridget O’Hara aka Bridget Moore, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 27 in London, United Kingdom.

43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 February 1970
(x)
150 Die in train derailment in Nigeria.
Afterwards 52 ‘survivors’ died in a truck crash.

41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 February 1972
(-)
Leslie Richardson is attacked by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, in Heywood, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 February 1978
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Cindy Hudspeth is raped and strangled by Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.

35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 February 1978
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William Kindred aka Billy Shotgun, is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1979
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Lila Bratislav is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 20 in Kocevska Reka, Yugoslavia.

23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1990
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Artist Keith Haring dies of AIDS at the age of 31 in New York, New York, USA.

18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 February 1995
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Murderer Billy Gardener is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1999
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Triple Murderer Johnie Michael Cox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Varner, Arkansas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1999
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Triple murderer Andrew Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 February 2000
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Cop Killer Anthony Lee Chaney is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Florence, State Prison, Arizona, USA.

Friday, February 15, 2013

50 Years Ago Robert was not Rehabilitated

449 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 February 1564
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Scientist Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, Italy.

136 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 February 1877
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Automobile pioneer Louis Renault is born in Paris, France.

104 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1909
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Over 250 Die in Flores Theatre fire in Acapulco, Mexico.

84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 February 1929
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World Champion Formule 1 Racing, Graham Hill is born in London, Hampstead, United Kingdom.

81 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1932
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Mary Ellen O’Connor is presumably abducted, killed and eaten by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 16 in New York, Manhattan, New York, USA.

80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1933
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Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak is fatally shot by Joseph Zangara in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Zangara actually tried to kill the 32nd president of the USA, Franklin Roosevelt. Cermak died three weeks later.

74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1939
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Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is born in Esterville, Coleman Hospital, Iowa, USA.

71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 February 1942
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Capitulation of Singapore in WWII, 138.000 British and Australian soldiers are taken as prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in Singapore.

59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1954
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Annie Hamann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.
In view of the events, the German radio warns the public for the danger of buying poisoned sweets.

53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1960
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Murderer Fernat Bournani kills 2 cops and is lynched by the public at the age of 28 in Paris, rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, France.

52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1961
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73 Die in Sabena Flight 548 Boeing 707 crash in Berg, Brabant, Belgium.
Among the victims were the entire US figure skating association.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 February 1963
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Murderer Robert Griffin is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1965
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Musician Nat ‘King’ Cole dies of lung cancer at the age of 45 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 February 1966
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Revolutionary priest Camilo Torres Restrepo is shot dead by a military patrol at the age of 37 in El Carmen, Colombia.

43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 February 1970
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102 Die in Dominican DC-9 crash during takeoff from Santo Domingo in the Carribean Sea.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 February 1974
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55-year-old Writer Alexander Isaewitsch Solzhenitsyn is banned from the USSR in Moscow, Russia.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 February 1974
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Donald Skepper is shot dead by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, in Lancashire, United Kingdom.

35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1978
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31-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is arrested ‘trying to evade a police-officer’ in Pensacola, Florida, USA.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1982
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84 Die in Ocean Ranger drilling rig sinking during a storm in Newfoundland.

30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 February 1983
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40-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is stabbed in the upper left arm and back by fellow inmate and multiple murderer Henry Brisbon in Menard Correctional Centre, Illinois, USA.

29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1984
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US-Diplomat Leamon Hunt is shot dead by Red Brigades in Rome, Italy.

7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 2006
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Murderer Clyde Jr. Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.