Wednesday, May 25, 2016

31st year - N° 146 Wednesday, 25 May 2016

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31st year - N° 146 Wednesday, 25 May 2016

25 May / Today's 34 Events:
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931 years ago

Monday 25th of May 1085

157th Pope Gregorius VII, originally Ildebrando da Soana dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in Salerno, Campania, Italy.

"I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore, I die in exile."


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755 years ago

Wednesday 25th of May 1261

181st Pope Alexander IV, originally Rinaldo di Jenne dies of unknown causes at the age of 62 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.


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151 years ago

Thursday 25th of May 1865

Leader of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) John Raleigh Mott is born in Livingston Manor, New York, United States.


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151 years ago

Thursday 25th of May 1865

Over 300 die in federal ammunition depot explosion in Beauregard Street, Mobile, Alabama, United States.


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129 years ago

Wednesday 25th of May 1887

Stigmatised monk Pio of Pietrelcina, originally Francesco Forgione is born in Pietrelcina, Campania, Italy.


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127 years ago

Saturday 25th of May 1889

Aviation pioneer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky is born in 15-a Yaroslaviv Val, Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.


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121 years ago

Saturday 25th of May 1895

41-year-old Poet and writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is convicted of 'committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons' and sentenced to two years hard labour in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Judge Justice Wills described the sentence, the maximum allowed, as "totally inadequate for a case such as this" and that the case was "the worst case I have ever tried". Wilde's response was "And I? May I say nothing, my Lord?"


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103 years ago

Sunday 25th of May 1913

Christine Klein is throatcut by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Mulheim-am-Rhein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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89 years ago

Wednesday 25th of May 1927

Writer Robert Ludlum is born in New York City, New York, United States.


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80 years ago

Monday 25th of May 1936

30-year-old Wife of camp commandant and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch, originally Margarete Ilse Köhler aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe marries SS-Mann Karl Otto Koch in KZ Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.


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73 years ago

Tuesday 25th of May 1943

In a letter to Enrico Fermi, 39-year-old Theoretical physicist Robert Julius Oppenheimer aka The Father of the Atomic Bomb discusses the possibility of infecting food with Strontium 90 whereby easily about 1/2 million people could be killed at once in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States.


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70 years ago

Saturday 25th of May 1946

Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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60 years ago

Friday 25th of May 1956

Irish republican hunger striker Kevin Lynch, originally Caoimhghin O Loinsigh is born in Park, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.


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55 years ago

Thursday 25th of May 1961

Murderer Victor John Terry is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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53 years ago

Saturday 25th of May 1963

28-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker sets fire to the 2nd floor of a building he owns in 2039 East Fletcher Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

He collected 15.000$ on insurance money.


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48 years ago

Saturday 25th of May 1968

Martin Brown is strangled by child killer Mary Bell aka Child of Hell in 85 St. Margaret's Road, Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

"There has been a boy who Just lay down and Died."


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47 years ago

Sunday 25th of May 1969

30-year-old Serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer is arrested and questioned but released by the FBI in Corvallis, Oregon, United States.


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42 years ago

Saturday 25th of May 1974

After a botched abduction of a Puerto Rican boy on 15 May 1974, Erno Soto is arrested on suspicion of being Unidentified serial killer Charlie Chop-off in New York City, New York, United States.

He was never brought to trial due to lack of evidence.


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39 years ago

Wednesday 25th of May 1977

Two unidentified burglars are blown to pieces while robbing a safe in a dynamite warehouse in Hunneberg, Västergötland, Sweden.


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38 years ago

Thursday 25th of May 1978

36-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber leaves bomb #1 in the parking lot in University of Illinois Science & Engineering Building, Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Campus security officer Terry Marker is injured on his left hand when he opens the package and the bomb explodes the next day at the Northwestern Technological Institute.


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37 years ago

Friday 25th of May 1979

Murderer John Arthur Spenkelink is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Florida State Prison, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, Florida, United States.

Spenkelink's last meal request was for two swigs of Jack Daniels. After the execution, unfounded rumors spread that the fighting, shouting Spenkelink was dragged to the electric chair, gagged, beaten and had his neck broken.


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37 years ago

Friday 25th of May 1979

273 die in American Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Flight 191 crash in Ravenswood Airport, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.


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33 years ago

Wednesday 25th of May 1983

294 die in 10th of the Ramadan Ferry fire and sinking in Lake Nasser, Egypt.


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32 years ago

Friday 25th of May 1984

The first daughter of 28-year-old Child killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.


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32 years ago

Friday 25th of May 1984

Sue Luna is abducted and killed by serial killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.


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32 years ago

Friday 25th of May 1984

An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Rostov, Yaroslavi Oblast, Russia.


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30 years ago

Sunday 25th of May 1986

Some 600 die in M.V. Shamia Ferry capsizing in Meghna River, Barisal, Bangladesh.


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30 years ago

Sunday 25th of May 1986

School shooter Andrew Douglas Golden aka Drew Douglas Grant is born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States.


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26 years ago

Friday 25th of May 1990

Member of the Grupos de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre José Manuel Sevillano dies after 177 days hungerstriking at the age of 30 in Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Calle Doctor Esquerdo 46, Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.


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16 years ago

Thursday 25th of May 2000

Murderer James Edward Clayton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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14 years ago

Saturday 25th of May 2002

192 die in train derailment in Tenga, Maputo, Mozambique.


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10 years ago

Thursday 25th of May 2006

Musician Desmond Dekker, originally Desmond Adolphus Dacres dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Thornton Heath, Croydon, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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9 years ago

Friday 25th of May 2007

21-year-old School shooter Andrew Douglas Golden aka Drew Douglas Grant is released from prison in Arkansas Juvenile Assessment & Treatment Center, 1501 Woody Drive, Bryant, Arkansas, United States.

Golden served nine years for the Jonesboro Massacre.



3 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 25th of May 2013

John Cale surveying the audience for his video-installation 'Diddiau Du/Dark Days' in Middelheimmuseum, Wilrijk, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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