The sky at night over Asia on my flight back from Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Jakarta.
1241 (-) 178th Pope Gregorius IX originally Ugolino del Conti, dies at the age of 98 in Rome, Italy.
1280 (-) 188th Pope Nicholas III originally Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.
1760 (+) 252th Pope Leo XII originally Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga, is born in Genga, Italy.
1862 (+) Composer Claude Debussy is born in St. Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France.
1891 (+) Artist Jacques Lipchitz is born in Druskininkaï, Lithuania, Russia.
1902 (+) Actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is born in Berlin, Germany.
1908 (+) Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is born in Chanteloup, France.
1920 (+) Writer Ray Bradbury is born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA.
1922 (-) Black Parks Blanks is lynched after a verbal disagreement with a Ku-Klux-Klan member in Yazoo-City, Missouri, USA.
1928 (+) Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is born in Modrath, Germany.
1928 (x) 58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for petty larceny in Manhattan, New York, USA.
1952 (+) Musician Peter Laughner is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1961 (x) Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry attempts to assassinate 70-year-old President of France Charles De Gaulle in Petit-Clamart, France.
1961 (-) Michael Gregsten and Marie Storie are presumably attacked and shot by James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer, in Deadman’s Hill, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
Storie survived.
1965 (-) Hermann Schmitz is stabbed to death by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 25 in Duisburg, Grossenbaum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1967 (+) Musician and Teenage-Star Yukiko Okada aka Yukko, is born in Japan.
1969 (x) 22-year-old Viktor Iliyin tries to assassinate 62-year-old Statesman Leonid Breshnev in Moscow, Red Square, Russia.
He kills Breshnev’s driver and injures 2 USSR-astronauts who accompanied him.
1976 (-) German Priest Oskar Brüsewitz commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 47 in Zeits, in front of the Michaelskirche, Germany.
1978 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in West Cornforth, Durham, United Kingdom.
1980 (-) Margo Walls is strangled and hammered to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 47 in Farnsley, New Street, United Kingdom.
1982 (-) King Sobhuza II aka The Lion, dies at the age of 83 in Swaziland.
He leaves 500 widows and children.
1985 (x) 54 Die in British Airtours Boeing 737 fire in Manchester, United Kingdom.
1986 (-) Murderer Larry Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1988 (-) Mari Konno is strangled by Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, at the age of 4 in Saitama, Japan.
1991 (-) Murderer Derick Peterson is executed by Old Sparky in Greenville, Virginia, USA.
1996 (-) Murderer Luis Mata is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
2000 (-) Murderer Richard Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer William Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
2006 (x) 170 Die in Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 Tupolev TU-154M crash in Sukha Balka, Ukraine.
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