29th year - N° 57 Wednesday, 26 February 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 57 Wednesday, 26 February 2014

26 February / Today's 6 Events:

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(+) 168 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1846 Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill is born in Napsinekee Hollow, Le Claire, Iowa, United States.

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(-) 100 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1914 Murderer George Ball aka George Sumner aka The Sack Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. He killed his employer Christina Catherine Bradfield in her shop at 86 Old Hall Street in Liverpool on 10 December 1913.

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(x) 71 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 The first transport of Gypsies arrives in Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(-) 43 years ago Friday 26th of February 1971 Actor and singer Fernandel, originally Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Avenue Foch, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 28 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1986 50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito is arrested only a few minutes after he had murdered a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. Barbosa was charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months after he escaped from Gorgona prison in Colombia in November 1984.

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1 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 26th of February 2013 James Chance and Les Contortions playing live in Magasin 4, Avenue du Port, 51b, Brussels, Belgium.

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