30th year - N° 57 Thursday, 26 February 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 57 Thursday, 26 February 2015

26 February / Today's 11 Events:

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(+) 169 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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(+) 163 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1852 Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 101 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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(+) 83 years ago Friday 26th of February 1932 Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States.

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(x) 72 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 The first transport of Gypsies arrives in KZ Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(x) 56 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1959 Peter Paul Rubens' 'Der Höllensturz der Verdammten' is attacked with acid by 53-year-old Art vandal Walter Menzl in Alte Pinakothek, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 51 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 3 / Klarsichtpackung / Versumpfung in Einer Truhe – Panierung Eines Weiblichen Gesäßes – Wälzen im Schlamm' in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 44 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) 29 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1986 50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa 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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(-) 15 years ago Saturday 26th of February 2000 Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 51 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained.

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2 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, Brussel, Belgium.

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