Tuesday, August 21, 2012

21 August 1983 - Benigno “Ninoy” Simeon Aquino is Shot Dead

1614 (-)  Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, dies after being walled in in a small room in her own castle for 3 years at the age of 54 in Cachtice, Hungary.

1872 (+)   Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley is born in Brighton, United Kingdom.

1904 (+)   Bandleader William “Count” Basie is born in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA.

1911 (x)  29-year-old Thief Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa and keeps it in his room for about 2 years in Paris, France.

1921 (x)  57-year-old Serial Killer and presumed cannibal Karl Friedrich Grossmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof, is arrested in Berlin, Friedrichshain, Lange Strasse 88/89, Germany.
In his house bodyparts of several victims were found in the oven. He used to sell the meat in his stall at Schlesischen Bahnhof.

1929 (-)  Frau Mantel and another woman are attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 30 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
They both survived.

1929 (x)  22-year-old Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, marries Diego Rivera in The Blue House, Mexico City, Mexico.
Their marriage was called a union between an elephant and a dove.

1931 (-)  Murderer Herbert Young is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
It was the last execution by hanging in Arizona. After that the Gas Chamber was installed.

1940 (-)  Frau Schuhmacher is beaten and raped by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Zobtener Strasse, Germany.
She survived.

1943 (-)  Ruth Fuerst is strangled by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 21 in London, United Kingdom.

1944 (x)   44 Die in Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash in Morocco.
The pilot had committed suicide.

1947 (-)  Automobile designer Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti dies at the age of 65 in Dorlisheim, Alsace, France.

1950 (+)   Attempted assassin Arthur Herman Bremer is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1961 (x)  32-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is put in solitary confinement for the stabbing of Jerry Tharrington in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.

1962 (+)   Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is born in Japan.
He is born with deformed gnarled hands.

1963 (x)   Four buddhist monks and a nun commit suicide by self-immolation as a protest against occupation of their holy temples by government armed forced in Saigon, Vietnam.

1968 (x)   Russian armed forces invade Czechoslowakia.

1968 (-)  Barbara Locci is shot dead by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 32 in Florence, Signa, Italy.

1969 (x)  40-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from a prison farm in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

1969 (x)  Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

1971 (x)   The Manson Family members Mary Brunner, Gypsy Share, Chuckleberry, Little Larry and Dennis Rice aka Fatherman are involved in a shoot-out with the police after robbing a gun-shop in Los Angeles, 13355 South Hawthorne Boulevard, California, USA.

1971 (-)  Black Panther George Lester Jackson aka Soledad Brother, is shot dead in a shootout with prison guards at the age of 29 in San Quentin Prison, New York, USA.

1978 (-)  Schipka Postalnyi is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 20 in Prezid, Yugoslavia.

1981 (-)  IRA-member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, dies after 60 days hungerstriking at the age of 27 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the tenth and last to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.



1983 (-)  Opposition-leader Benigno “Ninoy” Simeon Aquino is shot dead on the airfield after returning from a 3-year exile in the USA at the age of 50 in Manila, the Fillipines.

1984 (x)  31-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is arrested and charged with the murders of at least 15 young men in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

2005 (-)  Musician and inventor Robert Arthur Moog dies of a brain tumour at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

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