31st year - N° 225 Friday, 12 August 2016

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31st year - N° 225 Friday, 12 August 2016

12 August / Today's 15 Events:

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(-) 532 years ago Tuesday 12th of August 1484 212th Pope Sixtus IV, originally Francesco della Rovere known for building the Sistine Chapel at the age of 70 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 327 years ago He Was Incorrupt Friday 12th of August 1689 Innocentius XI, originally Benedetto Odescalchi aka The Blessed dies of a kidney disease at the age of 78 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. When Innocentius' body was exhumed for beatification 267 years later it was discovered that it had remained preserved. He is regarded by many Catholics to be the first pope whose body was discovered to be incorrupt.

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(-) 189 years ago Sunday 12th of August 1827 Poet and painter William Blake dies of gallstones at the age of 70 in Fountain Court, Strand, Soho, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 185 years ago Friday 12th of August 1831 Theosophist, occultist and spirit medium Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, originally Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya aka Madame Blavatsky is born in Ekaterinoslav, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 150 years ago Sunday 12th of August 1866 Chemist, murderer and playwright Roland Burnham Molineux is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 148 years ago Wednesday 12th of August 1868 Victim of Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais Thérèse Laborde-Line is born in Chascomús, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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(+) 135 years ago He Was the Squaw Baby Friday 12th of August 1881 Film director Cecil Blount DeMille is born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 67 years ago Friday 12th of August 1949 Spree killer Mark James Robert Essex is born in Emporia, Kansas, United States.

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(-) 61 years ago Friday 12th of August 1955 Writer, social critic and philanthropist Thomas Paul Mann dies of athorasclerosis at the age of 80 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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(-) 52 years ago He Didn't See the Living Daylight Wednesday 12th of August 1964 Writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer Ian Lancaster Fleming known for the James Bond spy novels dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(+) 43 years ago He Enrolled with FRF Crew Sunday 12th of August 1973 Terrorist Richard Colvin Reid aka The Shoe Bomber aka Abdel Rahim aka Abdul Rof is born in Bromley, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 37 years ago Sunday 12th of August 1979 30-year-old Murderer Peter Carlier shoots a 21-year-old neighbour girl to death due to a sadistic obsession in Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 19 years ago Tuesday 12th of August 1997 Bégonia Valencia is abducted and killed by unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.

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(x) 7 years ago Wednesday 12th of August 2009 50-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'James Lee Byars was Never in Art Ghraib' and 'And Did Those Eyes in Recent Time' at R.I.T.E.S. in Old School, Mount Sophia, Singapore, Singapore. I drew the sign of the 'Red Dragon' on a sheet of paper with red paint. Then I stood for a while on a piece of cloth with a ritual milk 'kavadi' on my head. The kavadi was filled with red paint that I slowly poured over my head. Then I made a wad out of a piece of gold cloth filled with earth from my hole. I lay down on a sloping piece of wood, my head immersed in a tub of water. I stuffed the wad in my mouth and an unopened lotus flower into the wad. I remained with my head in the water until the wad and the lotus flower were completely sodden and I couldn't breath no more.

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(-) 2 years ago Tuesday 12th of August 2014 Actress Lauren Bacall, originally Betty Joan Perske dies of a stroke at the age of 90 in The Dakota, 72nd Street and Central Park West, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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