Friday, May 4, 2012

4 May 1987 - Paul Butterfield Dies

1904 (+)   Musician Umm Kulthum aka The Nightingale of the Nile, is born in Tamay-Az-Zahayra, Egypt.

1907 (x)  32-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is arrested in Villedieu, France.

1908 (+)   Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Friedrich Koch is born in Hannover, Herrenhausen, Germany.

1929 (+)   Actress Audrey Hepburn originally Audrey Kathleen Ruston, is born in Brussels, Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium.

1932 (-)  Murderer Maurice Freedman is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.

1934 (-)  Murderer Reginald Ivor Hinks is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Bristol, United Kingdom.

1934 (-)  Murderer Frederick William Parker is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1934 (-)  Murderer Albert Probert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1942 (+)   Musician Tammy Wynette originally Virginia Wynette Pugh aka the First Lady of Country Music, is born in Itawamba County, Mississippi, USA.

1946 (x)   Murderers Bernard Coy, Joseph Paul Cretzer and Hubbard are shot dead in a gunfight whilst escaping from Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco, California, USA.

1958 (+)   Artist Keith Haring is born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, USA.

1963 (x)   173 Die in Ferry capsizing in Magnagna, Nile River, Egypt.

1978 (-)  Ljuba Smarovas is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 19 in Ribnica, Yugoslavia.

1979 (x)  53-year-old Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, is inaugurated as Prime Minister in London, United Kingdom.

1980 (-)  President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito dies of gangrene at the age of 88 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.

1984 (-)  Lana Long is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 19 in Tampa, Florida, USA.



1987 (-)  Musician and founder of ‘The Paul Butterfield Blues Band’ Paul Butterfield dies of a drug overdose at the age of 44 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1990 (-)  Murderer Jesse Joseph Tafero is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.
Six inch flames erupted from his head because the executioner had replaced the natural sponge in the headpiece by a synthetic one.

1992 (x)   73 Die in a building collapse in Srinagar, India.
Too many people climbed on the building to join a mourning-ritual for a dead girl.

1993 (-)  Murderer Darryl Stewart is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1994 (x)  Robert Weber is shot by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 27 in New York, Central Park, New York, USA.
He survived.

1997 (-)  Lee Miglin is tortured and killed with a garden saw as third victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 72 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
His body was found in a lake near Minneapolis a week later.

1998 (x)  55-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, is sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years in Sacramento, California, USA.

1999 (-)  Robber, rapist and murderer Manuel Pina Babbitt is executed by lethal injection in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
In march 1998, while on death row, he received a Purple Heart for wounds he received in the Vietnam War, 30 years earlier.

1999 (-)  Murderer Jose de la Cruz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-)  Murderer Tommy Ray Jackson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (x)   148 Die in Executive Airlines Services BAC 1-11-500 crash in Kano, Nigeria.

2006 (-)  Murderer Jackie Barron Wilson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-)  Murderer David Woods is executed by lethal injection in Indiana, USA.

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