32nd year - N° 59 Tuesday, 28 February 2017

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32nd year - N° 59 Tuesday, 28 February 2017

28 February / Today's 11 Events:

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(-) 1531 years ago Thursday 28th of February 0486 46th Pope Hilarius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 137 years ago Saturday 28th of February 1880 Victim of John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer Olive Henrietta Olivia Robarts Durand-Deacon is born in Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 111 years ago Wednesday 28th of February 1906 Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Saturday 28th of February 1942 Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkins Jones is born in Park Nursing Home, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 70 years ago Friday 28th of February 1947 Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising after the confiscation of contraband cigarettes and subsequent killing a 40-year-old widow named Lin Jiang-mai by agents of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau enforcement team in Tianma teahouse, Taiheichō, Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan. Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.

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(+) 67 years ago Tuesday 28th of February 1950 Irish republican hunger striker Francis Hughes, originally Proinsias Ó hAodha is born in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 61 years ago Tuesday 28th of February 1956 Gangster and French public enemy No. 1 for 1950 Émile Buisson aka Mimile is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 57 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1960 Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker is born in El Paso, Texas, United States.

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(+) 57 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1960 Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten, originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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(x) 46 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1971 31-year-old Performance artist Vito Hannibal Acconci performs 'Security Zone' with Lee Jaffe in Pier 18, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 31 years ago Friday 28th of February 1986 26th Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Sven Joachim Palme is shot dead by an unidentified assassin at the age of 59 in Sveavägen, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. Although more than 130 people have confessed to Palme's murder the case remains unsolved.

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32nd year - N° 58 Monday, 27 February 2017

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32nd year - N° 58 Monday, 27 February 2017

27 February / Today's 14 Events:

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(x) 287 years ago Monday 27th of February 1730 Start of the trial against 65-year-old Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General for the rape of Anne Bond on 10 November 1729 in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The jury quickly found Charteris guilty. On 2 March, he was sentenced to death and held in Newgate Prison. On 10 April 1730 after a substantial campaign to pardon Charteris, joined by Anne Bond, King George II granted him a royal pardon.

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(x) 163 years ago Monday 27th of February 1854 44-year-old Romantic composer Robert Schumann tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the Rhine River in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Schumann was rescued by boatmen and taken home, he asked to be taken to an asylum for the insane.

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(+) 156 years ago Wednesday 27th of February 1861 Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy is born in Ludbreška ulica 13, Kraljevec, Međimurska županija, Austria-Hungary.

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(-) 130 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1887 Composer Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies of poor health at the age of 54 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 85 years ago Saturday 27th of February 1932 Actress Elizabeth Rosemond 'Liz' Taylor is born in Heathwood, 8 Wildwood Road, Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 84 years ago Monday 27th of February 1933 24-year-old Communist and presumed arsonist Marinus Van der Lubbe known for the Reichstag fire is arrested in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 62 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1955 Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 59 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1958 Punk icon Nancy Laura Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy is born in University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 47 years ago Friday 27th of February 1970 32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 7th 'Abreaktionsspiel' in Aktionsraum 1, Waltherstraße 25, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 33 years ago Monday 27th of February 1984 Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in United States Federal Building and Courthouse, 605 West Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1992 42-year-old Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper is arrested in Miami, Florida, United States.

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(x) 13 years ago Friday 27th of February 2004 116 die in SuperFerry 14 bomb explosion in Manila Bay, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines. Redondo Cain Dellosa later admitted to planting the bomb on board for the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group. Founder of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr. was arrested in Bahrain on 24 July 2008 as the mastermind behind the bombing.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 27th of February 2005 Dorothea Olkowski's impressive high heels during her lecture at AMVK's 'HeadNurse' booklaunch in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 2 years ago His Long and Prosperous Life Ended Friday 27th of February 2015 Actor Leonard Simon Nimoy aka Mr. Spock dies of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 84 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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32nd year - N° 57 Sunday, 26 February 2017

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32nd year - N° 57 Sunday, 26 February 2017

26 February / Today's 23 Events:

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(+) 215 years ago Friday 26th of February 1802 Romantic poet and writer Victor Marie Hugo is born in 140 Grande Rue, Besançon, Franche-Comté, France.

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(+) 188 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1829 Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss, originally Löb Strauß known for Levi Strauss & Co. blue jeans is born in Marktstraße 33, Buttenheim, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 171 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1846 Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill is born in Napsinekee Hollow, Le Claire, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 165 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1852 Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 165 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1852 Serial poisoner Hélène Jégado is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Champ-de-Mars, Rennes, Bretagne, France. Jégado is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years.

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(+) 109 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1908 Animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director Tex Frederick Bean Avery is born in Taylor, Texas, United States.

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(-) 108 years ago Friday 26th of February 1909 Murderer Cyrus Y. Timmons is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 103 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1914 Murderer George Ball aka George Sumner aka The Sack Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. He killed his employer Christina Catherine Bradfield in her shop at 86 Old Hall Street in Liverpool on 10 December 1913.

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(+) 89 years ago Sunday 26th of February 1928 Singer-songwriter and musician Fats Antoine Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Friday 26th of February 1932 Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States.

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(-) 74 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 SS-Obergruppenführer and first commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies as his Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft is shot down by Soviet troops at the age of 51 in Artelnoje, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 74 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 Murderer William E. Wallace is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 54 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. Wallace was the oldest man executed in the Oregon State Penitentiary Gas Chamber.

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(x) 74 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 The first transport of Gypsies arrives in KZ Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(+) 59 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1958 Writer Michel Houellebecq, originally Michel Thomas is born in Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France.

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(x) 58 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1959 Peter Paul Rubens' 'Der Höllensturz der Verdammten' is attacked with acid by 53-year-old Art vandal Walter Menzl in Alte Pinakothek, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 53 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 3 / Klarsichtpackung / Versumpfung in Einer Truhe – Panierung Eines Weiblichen Gesäßes – Wälzen im Schlamm' in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 46 years ago Friday 26th of February 1971 Actor and singer Fernandel, originally Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Avenue Foch, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 33 years ago Sunday 26th of February 1984 Rosario Teresa Gonzales aka Chary is presumably abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Grand Prix Race Track, Miami, Florida, United States.

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(x) 31 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1986 50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador aka The Monster of Charquito is arrested only a few minutes after he had murdered a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. Barbosa was charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months after he escaped from Gorgona prison in Colombia in November 1984.

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(-) 30 years ago She Came Out from the Cold Thursday 26th of February 1987 Serial poisoner Audrey Marie Hilley, originally Audrey Marie Frazier dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Anniston, Alabama, United States. Hilley escaped from prison and had been crawling around in the woods for four days of frequent rain and numb from temperatures dropping to the low 30s. She was taken to a local hospital and underwent emergency treatment for hypothermia.

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(-) 19 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1998 Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil Isabel Dorsett dies of breast cancer at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States.

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(-) 17 years ago Saturday 26th of February 2000 Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 51 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained.

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4 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 26th of February 2013 James Chance and Les Contortions playing live in Magasin 4, Avenue du Port, 51b, Brussel, Belgium.

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32nd year - N° 56 Saturday, 25 February 2017

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32nd year - N° 56 Saturday, 25 February 2017

25 February / Today's 12 Events:

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(+) 144 years ago Tuesday 25th of February 1873 Tenor Enrico Caruso is born in Via San Giovannello agli Ottocalli 7, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(+) 100 years ago Sunday 25th of February 1917 Writer Anthony Burgess, originally John Anthony Burgess Wilson known for his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange is born in 91 Carisbrook Street, Harpurhey, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(-) 95 years ago Saturday 25th of February 1922 Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 53 in Prison Saint Pierre, Place des Tribunaux, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 86 years ago Wednesday 25th of February 1931 Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare is born in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

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(+) 60 years ago Monday 25th of February 1957 Irish republican hunger striker Raymond McCreesh, originally Réamonn Mac Raois is born in Camlough, Armagh, Ireland.

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(+) 58 years ago Wednesday 25th of February 1959 Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is born in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 53 years ago Tuesday 25th of February 1964 Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko dies of unknown causes at the age of 77 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 48 years ago Tuesday 25th of February 1969 Revolutionary student Jan Zajíc commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 19 in Wenceslas Square, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Around 1:30 in the afternoon Zajíc walked into the passageway of the building at No. 39 on Wenceslas Square and ignited his chemical-soaked clothes. Zajíc was unable to run out of the door and collapsed and died in the hallway. "Mother, father, brother, little sister! – When you read this letter, I will already be dead or close to death. I know what a severe blow my act will be to you, but don't be angry at me. Unfortunately, we are not alone in this world. I am not doing this because I would be tired by life, on the contrary, because I cherish it too much. Hopefully my act will make life better. I know the price of life and I know it is the most precious thing. But I want a lot for you, for everyone, so I have to pay a lot. Do not lose your heart after my sacrifice, tell Jacek to study harder and Marta too. You must never accept injustice, be it in any form, my death will bind you. I am sorry that I will never see you or that, which I loved so much. Please forgive me that I fought with you so much. Do not let them make me a madman. – Say hi to the boys, the river and the forest."

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(-) 47 years ago Wednesday 25th of February 1970 Abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, originally Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz commits suicide by slashing his arms at the age of 67 in 118 E. 95th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Rothko's body was found by his assistant Oliver Steindecker when Steindecker arrived in the morning for work. Rothko was lying face-up on the kitchen floor of his studio in a pool of blood, his arms outstretched. He was dressed in an undershirt, long johns and long black socks. He had removed his glasses, shoes and trousers (which were found folded over the back of a chair) before slitting his arms with a double-edged razor. He first took the razor in his right hand (after carefully wrapping a tissue over one one side of the razor) and made a cut in his left arm. He then switched the razor to his left hand and made an even deeper cut in his right arm. Both cuts were made just below the bend of the elbow. The autopsy revealed that Rothko had also overdosed on anti-depressants.

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(x) 35 years ago Thursday 25th of February 1982 23-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Resonantiepunctie' in an exhibition of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Zeno X Gallery, Leopold De Waelplaats, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 34 years ago Friday 25th of February 1983 Writer and playwright Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams chokes to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops he frequently used in his suite at the age of 72 in Hotel Elysee, 60 East 54th Street, New York City, New York, United States. Williams' use of drugs and alcohol may have contributed to his death by suppressing his gag reflex.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 25th of February 2007 My 'Bastard Art' piece 'Erd-Ecke' in  'The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience' exhibition in NICC, Museumstraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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