The Flowers of Romance on our roof.
1908 (x) 161 Die in school fire in Collinwood, Ohio, USA.
1918 (x) 280 Die in USS Cyclops shipwreck in Barbados.
1932 (+) Musician Myriam Makeba is born.
1944 (-) Head of Murder Incorporated Louis Buchalter aka Lepke, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 47 in the USA.
On the same occasion, his lieutenants Louis Capone and Mindy Weiss are also executed.
1948 (-) Theatre theorist Antonin Artaud dies of cancer at the age of 52 in Paris, Ivry, France.
1952 (x) 119 Die in 2-train collision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
They crashed head-on into each other.
1953 (-) Composer Sergey Prokofiev dies at the age of 62 in Moscow, Russia.
1955 (-) Murderer Carl Folk is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 56 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1961 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 11-year-old boy in St. Saviour, Jersey.
1962 (x) 111 Die in DC-7 crash in the Jungle of Cameroun.
1970 (-) Jadwiga K. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Siemanowice, Poland.
1972 (-) An unidentified girl is presumably strangled by Zodiac at the age of 19 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
1982 (-) Herta Schmits is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.
Stumbling naked out of the woods, she was picked up by a passing motorist and raped.
1983 (-) Edgar Underkofler is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 27 in Danville, Illinois, USA.
1984 (-) Dima Ptaschinow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Nowoschachtinsk, Russia.
1994 (x) Musician Kurt Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, is found in a coma due to a suicidal cocktail of Rohypnol and champagne in his hotel room in Rome, Italy.
1994 (-) Actor John Candy dies of a heart-attack at the age of 44 in Durango, Mexico.
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