31st year - N° 218 Friday, 5 August 2016

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31st year - N° 218 Friday, 5 August 2016

5 August / Today's 16 Events:

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(+) 166 years ago Monday 5th of August 1850 Writer Guy Henri René Albert de Maupassant is born in Château de Miromesnil, Tourville-sur-Arques, Seine-Maritime, France.

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(+) 156 years ago He Began to Develop Swellings Sunday 5th of August 1860 Joseph Carey Merrick aka The Elephant Man is born in 50 Lee Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Merrick began to develop swellings on his lips at the age of 21 months followed by a bony lump on his forehead and a loosening and roughening of the skin. The Merrick family explained his symptoms as the result of his mother Mary Jane Potterton being knocked over and frightened by a fairground elephant while she was pregnant with Joseph.

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(+) 110 years ago Sunday 5th of August 1906 Film director John Marcellus Huston is born in Nevada, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 109 years ago Monday 5th of August 1907 Artist, recurring mental hospital patient and murderer Robert George Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor is born in Arroyo Seco Park, Pasadena, California, United States.

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(x) 98 years ago Monday 5th of August 1918 Mrs. Edward Schneider is attacked by serial killer The Axeman of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Schneider had a serious gash in her head and some teeth were knocked out but she and her unborn child survived.

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(+) 86 years ago Tuesday 5th of August 1930 Astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong known for becoming the first person to walk on the Moon is born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 5th of August 1934 Victim of Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter Frieda Klara Tesmer is born in Thüringen, Germany.

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(x) 56 years ago Friday 5th of August 1960 33-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is arrested on charges of burglary and assault in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 54 years ago Sunday 5th of August 1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe, originally Norma Jeane Mortenson commits suicide by acute barbiturate poisoning at the age of 36 in 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. At the subsequent autopsy eight mg/dL of chloral hydrate and 4.5 mg/dL of Nembutal were found in Monroe's system. It was reported that President Kennedy was the last person Monroe called.

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(x) 41 years ago Tuesday 5th of August 1975 Communist militant group the Japanese Red Army takes over 50 hostages including the U.S. consul and the Swedish chargé d'affaires in American Insurance Associates Building, 99 Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia. The gunmen won the release of five imprisoned comrades and flew with them to Libya.

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(+) 40 years ago Thursday 5th of August 1976 Murderer Napoleon Beazley is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(-) 32 years ago Sunday 5th of August 1984 Actor Richard Burton, originally Richard Walter Jenkins dies of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 59 in Céligny, Genève, Switzerland.

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(-) 23 years ago He Was Cryosectioned Thursday 5th of August 1993 Murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan known from the Visible Human Project is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Jernigan's cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project and the University of Colorado School of Medicine by Dr. Vic Spitzer and associates.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 5th of August 2003 Preparations for a Buddhist ceremony in Gaeyling in Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 11 years ago Friday 5th of August 2005 Game addict Lee Seungseob dies of cardiac arrest due to exhaustion and dehydration at the age of 28 in Daegu, Yeongnam, South Korea. Seungseob had played StarCraft almost continuously for fifty hours.

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(x) 3 years ago Monday 5th of August 2013 70-year-old Accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Caril Ann Fugate is seriously injured in a single vehicle accident in Interstate 69, Tekonsha, Michigan, United States. Fugate's husband Fredrick Clair, who was driving their SUV when it went off the road and overturned, died at the scene of the accident.

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