The new landscape in the town where I lived when I was young and looked different then.
1820 (+) Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp, is born in Florence, Italy.
1842 (+) Composer Jules Massenet is born in Montaud, France.
1870 (-) Johannes Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg at the age of 1 in the Netherlands.
1892 (-) Sex Murderer Etienne Deschamps is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
1893 (-) Murderer John Carlisle is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.
1895 (-) Adele Mortureux is murdered by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 17 in France.
1897 (+) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1907 (-) Satanist writer Joris-Karl Huysmans originally Charles-Marie-Georges, dies of cancer of the mouth in a benedict monastery, France.
1921 (+) Artist Joseph Beuys is born in Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1924 (+) Actor and comedian Anthony Hancock is born in 23 Railway Cuttings, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
1928 (+) Composer Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
1932 (-) Charles Lindbergh Jr is found dead after presumably being kidnapped by Bruno Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, at the age of 2 in the wood near Hopewell Mansion, New Jersey, USA.
1936 (-) Murderer Dr. Buck Ruxton is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
1951 (x) First US hydrogen-bomb-test in Eniwetok, the Pacific Ocean.
1953 (x) First USSR hydrogen-bomb-test.
1957 (-) Actor and filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim aka The Man You Love to Hate, dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Maurepas, France.
1972 (x) A bomb-attack is executed by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, on the police headquarters in Augsburg, Germany.
1981 (-) IRA-member Francis Hughes dies after 59 days of hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
1982 (x) Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Wojtila, is stabbed with a bajonet by 32-year-old artist Juan Fernandez Krohn in Fatima, Portugal.
1984 (x) Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, has his second death-sentence commuted to life-imprisonment in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.
1985 (-) Artist and Art Brut-pioneer Jean Dubuffet dies at the age of 83 in Paris, France.
1987 (-) Spree Killer Michel Van Den Wijnendale aka The Mad Cyclist, commits suicide by a shot through the head in Bogaarden, Brabant, Belgium.
He was closed in by the police after he shot 90-year-old Jean Baptiste and 84-year-old Margriet Nechelput, 54-year-old Edgard, 46-year-old Liliane and 20-year-old Christian De Crem and 37-year-old Marie-Therese and 3-year-old Ludovic De Rijck.
1989 (x) Serial Killer Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is found guilty on 18 counts of murder in Orange County, West County Municipal Courts building, California, USA.
1993 (-) Cop Killer Leonel Herrera is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1997 (-) Serial Killer Dimitris Vakrinos commits suicide by hanging in prison at the age of 36 in Greece.
The former taxi driver was hanging by the neck from shoelaces tied to a shower head.
2006 (x) over 200 Die in oil pipeline explosion in Atlas Creek, Lagos, Nigeria.
Illegal oil traders tried to steal oil from the pipeline by drilling a hole in it.
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