Wednesday, August 7, 2013

125 Years Ago She Was Wearing a Black Bonnet, a Long Black Jacket, a Dark Green Skirt, a Brown Petticoat and Stockings, and Spring-Sided Boots Showing Considerable Wear

453 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 August 1560
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Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, is born in Nyirbator, Hungary.

146 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 August 1867
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Artist Emil Hansen Nolde is born in Nolde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

137 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 August 1876
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Spy Margaretha Geertruida Zelle aka Mata Hari, is born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

125 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 August 1888
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Martha Tabram aka Martha Turner, is stabbed 39 times with several knives by Jack the Ripper at the age of 35 in London, Spitalfields, George Yard Buildings, United Kingdom.

123 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 August 1890
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Murderess Anna Månsdotter aka The Yngsjö Murderess, is executed by beheading at the age of 48 in Yngsjö, Sweden.
She was the last woman to be executed in Sweden.

112 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 August 1901
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Black John Pennington is lynched by burning for attacking a white woman in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

106 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 August 1907
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Roland Hoch is born in Hannover, Germany.

88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 August 1925
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34-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, has one testicle removed for medical reasons in Minnesota, USA.

81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 August 1932
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Athlete Abebe Bikila is born in Mendida, Ethiopia.

76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 August 1937
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Harold Weber commits suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, USA.
It is the first ever suicide on the Bridge.

66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 August 1947
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32-year-old Anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl smashes into a reef with his raft Kon-Tiki after sailing across the Pacific Ocean in 101 days in Raroia, Tuamoto Islands.

57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 August 1956
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1200 Die in 7 truckloads of dynamite explosion in Cali, Colombia.

56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 August 1957
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Actor Oliver Norvell Hardy dies of a stroke at the age of 65 in Hollywood, California, USA.

53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 August 1960
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Actor David William Duchovny aka Fox Mulder, is born in New York, New York, USA.

52 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 August 1961
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Double murderer Philip Ingle is born in North Carolina, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 August 1962
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Writer Filip De Pillecijn dies at the age of 71 in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 August 1968
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11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, is arrested and charged with the murder of 2 boys in Newcastle, Scotswood, United Kingdom.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 August 1969
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Serial Killer Zodiac writes his second 3-page letter to the Vallejo Times-Herald newspaper in San Francisco, California, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 August 1969
(x) Darcie
, the wife of 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is charged with first degree murder as an accomplice of her husband in Salem, Oregon, USA.
She will stand trial but found not guilty.

41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 August 1972
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Actor and murderer Tom Thomas Neal dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Hollywood, California, USA.

41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 August 1972
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21-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with indecent exposure in Vancouver, Washington, USA.

29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 August 1984
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Ljudmila Alexejewa is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 17 in Rostow, Woroscilow-bridge, Russia.

24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 August 1989
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Jean-Joseph Clement is beaten to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, in France.

18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 August 1995
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28-year-old Serial Killer Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, is sentenced to death after confessing on television to the kidnap, rape and murder of nine girls and women in Teheran, Iran.

15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 August 1998
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230 Die in bomb-attack in Nairobi, American embassy, Kenya.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 August 2002
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Double murderer Richard William Kutzner is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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