Tuesday, August 15, 2017

32nd year - N° 227 Tuesday, 15 August 2017

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32nd year - N° 227 Tuesday, 15 August 2017

15 August / Today's 19 Events:
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248 years ago

Tuesday 15th of August 1769

War leader Napoléon Bonaparte, originally Napoleone di Buonaparte is born in Casa Buonaparte, Rue Saint-Charles, Ajaccio, Corsica, France.


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246 years ago

Thursday 15th of August 1771

Historical novelist, playwright and poet Walter Scott is born in College Wynd, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.


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232 years ago

Monday 15th of August 1785

Writer Thomas Penson De Quincey is born in 86 Cross Street, Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom.


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195 years ago

Thursday 15th of August 1822

Wife of Edgar Allan Poe Virginia Eliza Clemm is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.


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160 years ago

Saturday 15th of August 1857

Jack the Ripper suspect Montague John Druitt is born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, United Kingdom.


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140 years ago He Had a Little Needle

Wednesday 15th of August 1877

30-year-old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison aka The Wizard of Menlo Park makes the first phonograph recording in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

Edison recorded 'Mary had a Little Lamp'.


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122 years ago

Thursday 15th of August 1895

Murderess Virginia Christian is born in Richmond, Virginia, United States.


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121 years ago

Saturday 15th of August 1896

Inventor Léon Theremin, originally Lev Sergeyevich Termen is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.


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112 years ago

Tuesday 15th of August 1905

Nazi doctor Joachim Mrugowsky is born in Rathenow, Brandenburg, Germany.


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92 years ago

Saturday 15th of August 1925

Actor Mike Connors, originally Kreker J. Ohanian known for playing detective Joe Mannix is born in Fresno, California, United States.


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77 years ago

Thursday 15th of August 1940

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Gudrun Ensslin is born in Bartholomä, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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73 years ago Elle Était une Jolie Poupée

Tuesday 15th of August 1944

Singer-songwriter and actress Sylvie Vartan, originally Sylvie Georges Vartanian aka La Collégienne du Twist is born in Iskrets, Sofiyska Oblast, Bulgaria.


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62 years ago

Monday 15th of August 1955

Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman Donald Wayne Waldrop is born in Alpharetta, Georgia, United States.


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59 years ago

Friday 15th of August 1958

Murderess Laurie Lawrencia Bembenek aka Run, Bambi, Run is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.


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56 years ago

Tuesday 15th of August 1961

19-year-old Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall succesfully makes his escape to the West over the Berlin Wall in Ruppiner Straße and Bernauer Straße, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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43 years ago

Thursday 15th of August 1974

Double murderer Tommie Tom Andrew Hughes is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.


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37 years ago They Came to Take Him Away

Friday 15th of August 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'First Aid' in Bilzen, Limburg, Belgium.

I wanted to do the performance 'Ladder-1' on the roof of a building. Just when I started I was taken down by the security-services.



14 years ago The Eyes had it

Friday 15th of August 2003

A night-ride in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.



10 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 15th of August 2007

A wooden fisherman's house on the old Schelde river in Weert, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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