1720 (+) Adventurer and outrageous tale teller Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen is born in Bodenwerder, Germany.
1811 (+) Siamese twin Chang and Eng Bunker is born in Samutsongkram, Thailand.
They were connected through a 15cm thick navelstring.
1857 (-) Villain and later Chief Constable Eugène-François Vidocq dies of the effects of cholera at the age of 81 in Paris, France.
1858 (x) Minnesota becomes the 32nd of the United States in Minnesota, USA.
1888 (+) Composer Irving Berlin originally Israel Isidore Baline, is born in Mogilev, Russia.
1894 (+) Leader of the Dutch Fascist Nationaal Socialistische Beweging Anton Mussert aka Führer of the Netherlands People, is born in Werkendam, the Netherlands.
1904 (+) Artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali is born in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain.
1916 (-) Composer Max Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger dies of a heart attack at the age of 43 in Leipzig, Germany.
1920 (-) Millionaire, bridge-expert and womanizer Joseph Browne Elwell is shot dead by persons unknown in New York, 244 West 70th street, New York, USA.
He was shot to death in a room in his home which was found to be locked from the inside.
1928 (-) Cop Killer John Leonard Whitfield is shot dead whilst escaping from the Ohio State Penitentiary in Ohio, USA.
1945 (-) Gauleiter of Sudetenland Konrad Henlein commits suicide by cutting his veins with broken glasses at the age of 47 in an allied POW camp in Plzen, Czechoslowakia.
1947 (x) 42-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the Arizona State Hospital in Arizona, USA.
It was her third escape, but she was recaptured 12 hours later.
1958 (+) Son of Marlon, Christian Brando is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1959 (x) 54-year-old Actor Peter Lorre originally Ladislav Löwenstein, suffers a heart attack while directing a film in Spain.
1960 (x) 54-year-old Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Israeli Mossad living under the assumed name of Ricardo Klement in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1965 (x) 33-year-old Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, is arrested for tresspassing in Starville, Mississippi, USA.
He was picking flowers on a private property.
1966 (-) Genowefa B. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 36 in Lagiza-Nieplieko, Poland.
1968 (-) An unidentified boy is attacked by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, in Newcastle, Scotswood, Delaval Arms, United Kingdom.
1970 (-) Protester George Winne commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 23 in San Diego, University of California, California, USA.
He was protesting the US involvement in the war in Vietnam.
1972 (x) A bomb-attack is executed by the Revolutionary Rote Armee Fraktion on the US-army 5th Corps headquarters which kills Lt. Colonel Paul Bloomquist in Frankfurt-am-Main, I.G. Farben Building, Germany.
The Petra Schelm Commando claims responsability for the attack.
1975 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Ziad Samir Jarrah is born in Mazraa, Lebanon.
1978 (x) Members of the Revolutionary Rote Armee Fraktion Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Sieglinde Hofmann, Rolf Clemens Wagner and Peter-Jürgen Boock are arrested in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1980 (-) Pamela Weisenfeld is tortured and beaten to death by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 27 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA.
1981 (-) Musician Bob Robert Nesta Marley dies of lung cancer and a brain tumour at the age of 36 in Miami, Florida, USA.
1983 (-) Dominique Crete is stabbed to death by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 16 in Amiens, France.
1985 (x) 56 Die in soccer-stadium fire in Bradford, United Kingdom.
1989 (-) Sascha Djakonow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 8 in Rostow, Kamenka, Russia.
1992 (-) Filmmaker & hairdresser Ross Cannon dies of AIDS at the age of 34 in Tasmania.
1996 (x) 110 Die in ValuJet Flight 592 Douglas DC-9 crash in Miami, Florida, USA.
A fire had broken out due to improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold.
1998 (-) Serial Killer Hans Johannes Marinus Van Zon dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 57 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2000 (-) Double murderer Michael Lee McBride is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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