Monday, May 2, 2016

31st year - N° 123 Monday, 2 May 2016

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31st year - N° 123 Monday, 2 May 2016

2 May / Today's 14 Events:
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497 years ago

Friday 2nd of May 1519

Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, inventor and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci dies of natural causes at the age of 67 in Clos Lucé, Amboise, Centre-Val de Loire, France.


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480 years ago

Saturday 2nd of May 1536

35-year-old Second wife of King Henry VIII Anne Boleyn is arrested and charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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244 years ago

Saturday 2nd of May 1772

Romantic poet and writer Novalis, originally Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg is born in Oberwiederstedt, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.


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113 years ago He Was into Baby and Child Care

Saturday 2nd of May 1903

Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.


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97 years ago

Friday 2nd of May 1919

Anarchism theorist Gustav Landauer aka Commissioner of Enlightenment and Public Instruction of the Bavarian Soviet Republic is stoned to death by Freikorps troopers at the age of 49 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stadelheim, Stadelheimer Straße 12, Giesing, München, Bayern, Germany.


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86 years ago

Friday 2nd of May 1930

60-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is arrested for vagrancy in Newark, New Jersey, United States.


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80 years ago

Saturday 2nd of May 1936

Singer Engelbert Humperdinck, originally Arnold George Dorsey is born in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.


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71 years ago

Wednesday 2nd of May 1945

Nazi official and private secretary to Adolf Hitler Martin Bormann commits suicide by cyanide poisoning at the age of 45 in Lehrter Bahnhof, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

His skeleton was found on 28 december 1972 during construction works near the Lehrter Bahnhof.


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71 years ago

Wednesday 2nd of May 1945

The German radio officially anounces the death of 56-year-old Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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70 years ago It Was Her Mom's Party

Thursday 2nd of May 1946

Singer Lesley Gore, originally Lesley Sue Goldstein is born in New York City, New York, United States.


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56 years ago His Red Light Went Off

Monday 2nd of May 1960

Robber and rapist Caryl Whittier Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 39 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.


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42 years ago

Thursday 2nd of May 1974

23-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen is sentenced to death in Assisenhof, Britselei 55-57, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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17 years ago He Considered Himself

Sunday 2nd of May 1999

Actor Oliver Robert Reed dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Valletta, Reġjun Xlokk, Malta.

Reed supposedly drank three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer and numerous whiskies in a bar on the night he died.



11 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 2nd of May 2005

An abandoned shack on the beach in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.


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