Friday, May 13, 2016

31st year - N° 134 Friday, 13 May 2016

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31st year - N° 134 Friday, 13 May 2016

13 May / Today's 24 Events:
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361 years ago

Thursday 13th of May 1655

244th Pope Innocentius XIII, originally Michelangelo dei Conti is born in Poli, Lazio, Italy.


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224 years ago

Sunday 13th of May 1792

255th Pope Pius IX, originally Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti is born in Senigallia, Marche, Italy.


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147 years ago

Thursday 13th of May 1869

Solicitor and murderer Herbert Rowse Armstrong is born in Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom.


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134 years ago

Saturday 13th of May 1882

Artist Georges Braque is born in Argenteuil, Val d'Oise, France.


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109 years ago She Was not Rebecca

Monday 13th of May 1907

Writer and playwright Daphne du Maurier is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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85 years ago

Wednesday 13th of May 1931

Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim James Warren Jones is born in Lynn, Indiana, United States.


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77 years ago

Saturday 13th of May 1939

Actor Harvey Keitel is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.


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75 years ago

Tuesday 13th of May 1941

Singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens, originally Richard Steven Valenzuela is born in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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69 years ago

Tuesday 13th of May 1947

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Irmgard Möller is born in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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66 years ago

Saturday 13th of May 1950

Singer-songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder, originally Stevland Hardaway Judkins is born in Saginaw, Michigan, United States.


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59 years ago

Monday 13th of May 1957

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Andrea Martina Klump is born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.


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55 years ago

Saturday 13th of May 1961

Actor Gary Cooper, originally Frank James Cooper dies of cancer at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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54 years ago

Sunday 13th of May 1962

Abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline dies of a rheumatic heart disease at the age of 52 in New York City, New York, United States.


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48 years ago

Monday 13th of May 1968

Double murderer James Lee Clark is born in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.


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47 years ago

Tuesday 13th of May 1969

196 die in Sino-Malay race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.


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44 years ago

Saturday 13th of May 1972

118 die in Sennichi Department Store Building fire in Sennichimae, Osaka, Kinki, Japan.

Most of the dead were found in the Playtown Cabaret on the 6th floor. 93 suffered carbon dioxide poisoning, three died from compression injuries in the chest and abdomen (meaning that they were probably trampled to death) and 22 died from jumping.


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44 years ago

Saturday 13th of May 1972

Multiple murderer Marion Butler Dudley is born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.


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37 years ago

Sunday 13th of May 1979

20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Installation - 2' in Turfschip, Chasséveld, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

I was hanging with my arms spread and blindfolded in a darkened corridor. To my feet ropes were attached, leading to the door. Each time somebody entered he/she pulled my body towards him/her.


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35 years ago

Wednesday 13th of May 1981

61-year-old Ioannes Paulus II, originally Karol Józef Wojtyła is shot and wounded by 24-year-old Mehmet Ali Ağca in Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

The Pope was struck four times and suffered severe blood loss.


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31 years ago He Didn't Move Anymore

Monday 13th of May 1985

Founder of MOVE black liberation group John Africa, originally Vincent Leaphart is fatally shot during an armed standoff with the Philadelphia Police Department at the age of 54 in 6221 Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, .

Africa was killed along with five other adults and five children when the Philadelphia Police Department head of bomb disposal dropped a satchel containing a gel-based explosive from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter on a fortified bunker occupied by members of MOVE. The resulting explosion started a fire that resulted in the destruction of 65 homes in the neighborhood.


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26 years ago

Sunday 13th of May 1990

30-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal rents room 213 where he will kill and dismember 13 people in less than 2 years in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.


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19 years ago

Tuesday 13th of May 1997

Murderer Anthony Ray Westley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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11 years ago

Friday 13th of May 2005

Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Osborn Correctional Institution, 335 Bilton Road, Somers, Connecticut, United States.


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2 years ago

Tuesday 13th of May 2014

301 die in Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. Mine explosion and fire in Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. Mine, Soma, Manisa, Turkey.


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