29th year - N° 218 Wednesday, 6 August 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 218 Wednesday, 6 August 2014

6 August / Today's 12 Events:

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(-) 1756 years ago Saturday 6th of August 0258 24th Pope Sixtus II is executed by beheading in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Sixtus was martyred along with six deacons; Januarius, Vincentius, Magnus, Stephanus, Felicissimus and Agapitus.

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(-) 1491 years ago Saturday 6th of August 0523 52nd Pope Hormisdas dies of unknown causes at the age of 73 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 556 years ago Saturday 6th of August 1458 209th Pope Callixtus III, originally Alfons de Borja dies of unknown causes at the age of 80 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 190 years ago Friday 6th of August 1824 Serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners is born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 89 years ago Thursday 6th of August 1925 Victim of The Manson Family Leno Pasqualino Antonio LaBianca is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 87 years ago Saturday 6th of August 1927 Pop artist Andy Warhol, originally Andrew Warhola aka The Pope of Pop is born in 3252 Dawson Street, South Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Sunday 6th of August 1961 26-year-old Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov becomes the second person to orbit the earth aboard Vostok 2, landing in Krasny Kut, Saratov Oblast, Russia. Titov was preceded by Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961.

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(x) 48 years ago Saturday 6th of August 1966 41-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults and rapes an unidentified 15-year-old girl in Trinity, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 36 years ago Sunday 6th of August 1978 262nd Pope Paulus VI, originally Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Palazzo Apostolico, Castel Gandolfo, Lazio, Italy.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 6th of August 2005 A performance by an unidentified artist at the Death Petrol festival in Scheld'apen, D'Herbouvillekaai 36, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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5 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 6th of August 2009 The old pier in Rawa Island, Johor, Malaysia.

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(x) 5 years ago Thursday 6th of August 2009 80-year-old Great Train Robber Ronnie Ronald Arthur Biggs is released from prison on compassionate grounds in Norwich Prison, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. On 28 July 2009 Biggs was admitted to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with pneumonia. He had been admitted to the same hospital a month earlier with a chest infection and a fractured hip but returned to prison on 17 July 2009.

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