Saturday, February 11, 2017

32nd year - N° 42 Saturday, 11 February 2017

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32nd year - N° 42 Saturday, 11 February 2017

11 February / Today's 28 Events:
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482 years ago

Monday 11th of February 1535

229th Pope Gregorius XIV, originally Niccolò Sfondrato is born in Somma Lombardo, Lombardia, Italy.


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367 years ago

Friday 11th of February 1650

Philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes dies of pneumonia at the age of 54 in Västerlånggatan 68, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.


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170 years ago He Was Beginning to See the Light

Thursday 11th of February 1847

Inventor Thomas Alva Edison aka The Wizard of Menlo Park is born in Milan, Ohio, United States.


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157 years ago

Saturday 11th of February 1860

Serial killer and cannibal Karl Denke aka Papa Denke is born in Ober Kunzendorf, Niederschlesien, Germany.


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148 years ago

Thursday 11th of February 1869

Assassin Patrick James Whelan is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Carleton County Gaol, 75 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, United States.


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111 years ago

Sunday 11th of February 1906

Murderer Milton Diltwer is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States.


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90 years ago

Friday 11th of February 1927

William Gaffney is abducted, strangled, cut to pieces, roasted and partly eaten by serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac in 99 Fifteenth Street, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

Gaffney was abducted from Riker Avenue, Astoria, Queens. His body was dumped in the Bowery Bay.


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82 years ago

Monday 11th of February 1935

Musician Gene Vincent, originally Vincent Eugene Craddock known for his top ten hit ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’ is born in Norfolk, Virginia, United States.


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81 years ago

Tuesday 11th of February 1936

Actor Burt Leon Reynolds is born in Lansing, Michigan, United States.


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79 years ago

Friday 11th of February 1938

Singer Bobby Robert George Pickett known for the novelty song ‘Monster Mash’ is born in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States.


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76 years ago

Tuesday 11th of February 1941

Martha Zernowski is attacked and thrown out of a train by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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75 years ago

Wednesday 11th of February 1942

Margaret Florence Lowe aka Pearl is strangled and mutilated by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in Gosfield Street, Marylebone, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Lowe's body was mutilated with a variety of implements including a razor blade, a knife and a candlestick.


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70 years ago

Tuesday 11th of February 1947

Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Emily Harris, originally Emily Montague Schwartz aka Yolanda is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.


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69 years ago

Wednesday 11th of February 1948

Film director Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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47 years ago

Wednesday 11th of February 1970

Murderer Richard Michael 'Rich' Cartwright is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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42 years ago

Tuesday 11th of February 1975

50-year-old Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Hilda Thatcher, originally Margaret Hilda Roberts aka The Iron Lady becomes Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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32 years ago

Monday 11th of February 1985

Film director Henry Hathaway, originally Henri Léopold de Fiennes Hathaway dies of a heart attack at the age of 87 in Hollywood, California, United States.


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31 years ago

Tuesday 11th of February 1986

Science fiction writer Frank Patrick Herbert known for his novel Dune dies of a massive pulmonary embolism while recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer at the age of 66 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.


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25 years ago

Tuesday 11th of February 1992

Murderer Johnny Frank Garrett is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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23 years ago His Gun Stopped Smoking

Friday 11th of February 1994

Actor and producer William Conrad, originally John William Cann aka 'Cannon' dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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19 years ago

Wednesday 11th of February 1998

Rosemary A. Downs is raped and strangled by serial killer Alfred Gaynor in 5 Lionel Benoit Road, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.


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18 years ago

Thursday 11th of February 1999

Multiple murderer Danny Lee Barber is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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17 years ago

Friday 11th of February 2000

Film director Roger Vadim, originally Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov dies of cancer at the age of 72 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.



13 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 11th of February 2004

A railway station building somewhere on the way on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore Express Train in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.


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13 years ago

Wednesday 11th of February 2004

Triple murderer Edward Lagrone Lewis is executed by at the age of 47 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Lagrone's last meal request was for five pieces of fried chicken and two Cokes.


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11 years ago

Saturday 11th of February 2006

47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'DDV from China' in Factor 44, Bleekhofstraat 44, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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11 years ago

Saturday 11th of February 2006

Writer Peter Bradford Benchley known for his best-selling novel ‘Jaws’ dies of Complications of pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 66 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.


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5 years ago

Saturday 11th of February 2012

Singer, actress and model Whitney Elizabeth Houston dies of accidental drowning at the age of 49 in Beverly Hilton Hotel Suite 434, 9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, United States.

The official cause of Houston's death was drowning and the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use". The amount of cocaine found in Houston's body indicated that she used the substance shortly before her death. Toxicology results revealed additional drugs in her system: diphenhydramine, alprazolam, cannabis and cyclobenzaprine.


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