The tip of the wing of an Iljoeshin above Siberia.
1811 (-) Murderer Arthur Hodge is executed by hanging in the West Indies.
1825 (+) Founder of the Red Cross Henri Dunant is born in Geneve, Switzerland.
1880 (-) Writer Gustave Flaubert dies of apoplexy at the age of 58 in Croisset, France.
1884 (+) 33rd president of the USA Harry Truman is born in Lamar, Montana, USA.
1891 (-) Theosophist Madame Blavatsky originally Helene Petrovna Hahn, dies of complications from influenza at the age of 59 in London, United Kingdom.
1893 (-) Murderer Carlyle Harris is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1903 (+) Actor Fernand Contandin aka Fernandel, is born in Marseille, France.
1904 (-) Photographer Edward Muybridge dies at the age of 74 in Kingston-Upon-Thames, United Kingdom.
1905 (-) Gangster Bill Rudolph aka The Missouri Kid, is executed by hanging in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
1908 (x) Serial Killer Jeanne Weber is caught in the act of strangling 10-year-old Marcel Poirot, and is arrested in Commercy, France.
1920 (-) Black Henry Scott is riddled with bullets for asking a white woman to wait a few minutes in Tampa, Florida, USA.
1936 (-) Philosopher Oswald Spengler dies at the age of 56 in München, Germany.
1940 (+) Writer Peter Benchley is born in New York, New York, USA.
1940 (+) Musician Eric Nelson aka Ricky Nelson, is born in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA.
1945 (x) 17-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is arrested and charged with burglary and first degree robbery in Denver, Vrain Street, Colorado, USA.
1946 (+) Serial Killer J.C. Simon aka The Red Zebra Killer, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1958 (x) 128 Die in train collision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1959 (-) Cop Killer Ronald Marwood is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1966 (+) Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, Ervin Gibson is born in Illinois, USA.
1966 (-) Manfred Grassman is abducted, tortured and murdered by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 11 in Essen, Germany.
1968 (x) Gangsters and murderous twins Reginald & Ronald Kray aka The Profession of Violence, are arrested in their flats in Finsbury, City Road, Braithwaite House, United Kingdom.
1976 (-) Karin Toepfer is raped and strangled by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, in Dinslaken, Germany.
1978 (x) Gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Ennemy n°1, escapes from the Santé Prison with his accomplices Besse and Carman in Paris, France.
1980 (-) Gabriela Roesner is raped and strangled by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 23 in Langen, Germany.
1985 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to the Auburn Fabrication Division of the Boeing Company in Oakland, California, USA.
1991 (x) Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, is sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, USA.
It is his 11th consecutive life-sentence.
1993 (-) Murderer Larry Johnson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 49 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.
1997 (-) Murderer Scott Carpenter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 22 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.
He was the youngest person to be executed since capital punishment resumed in 1976.
1999 (-) Actor Dirk Bogarde dies of a heart-attack at the age of 78 in London, United Kingdom.
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