Thursday, May 30, 2013

235 Years Ago He Wanted to Die in Peace

582 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1431
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Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 19 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.

478 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1535
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43-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his third wife Jane Seymour in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
It was only 11 days after the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

373 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 May 1640
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Artist Peter Paul Rubens dies of gout at the age of 62 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

341 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1672
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Ruler Peter the Great originally Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov, is born in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

235 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 May 1778
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Writer Voltaire originally François-Marie Arouet, dies at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
When asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce the devil and turn to God, he replied, "For God's sake, let me die in peace."

199 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1814
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Anarchist Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin is born in Pryamukhino, Russia.

168 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 May 1845
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Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I is born in Turin, Italy.

132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1881
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Cornelia De Hees-Van Der Linden is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, Netherlands.
They were sisters in law.

126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1887
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Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko is born in Kiev, Russia.

107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 May 1906
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Heilstrom Mystic Bruno Gröning is born in Gdansk, Poland.

104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 May 1909
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Musician Benny Benjamin David Goodman is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1912
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Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright dies of typhoid fever at the age of 45 in Dayton, Ohio, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1927
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Jenny Randolph is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 35 in Buffalo, New York, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1929
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Lutheran Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz is born in Willkischken, Lithuania.

66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 May 1947
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Artist Orlan is born in Saint Etienne, Loire, France.

53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1960
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Victim of Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, Beth Wilmot is born in Portland, Oregon, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1960
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Writer Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Peredelkino, Russia.

52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 1961
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Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo is assassinated at the age of 70 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.

52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 1961
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61 Die in KLM DC-8 crash in Portugal.

50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1963
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Nude model and pornographic performer Shauna Grant originally Colleen Marie Applegate aka Callie Aimes, is born in Bellflower, California, United States.

44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 May 1969
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30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is arrested in Portland, Oregon, United States.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 1972
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26 Die and 80 are injured when three gunmen from the Revolutionary Japanese Red Army open fire in the passenger terminal of Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israël.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 1972
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Start of the trial against Communist militant group The Angry Brigade in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 May 1981
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President Zia Ur-Rahman is killed during a rebellion in Bangladesh.

28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1985
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Arms-Factory director José Martinez-Parens is shot dead by the ETA at the age of 32 in Spain.

28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1985
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Carol Kyle is attacked and raped by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, in Los Angeles, Burbank, California, United States.
She survived.

20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 May 1993
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Musician Sun Ra originally Herman Poole Blount officially Le Sony’r Ra, dies of pneumonia at the age of 79 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1994
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Inventor of the ‘bic’, Marcel Bich dies at the age of 79 in France.

14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 May 1999
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37-year-old Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong stabs eight women to death in Bejing, China.

11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 2002
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Murderer Stanley Allison Jr. Baker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 2006
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Serial Killer Metod Trobec aka The Monster of Gorejne Vasi, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 57 in Slovenia.

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