32nd year - N° 55 Friday, 24 February 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 55 Friday, 24 February 2017

24 February / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 517 years ago Saturday 24th of February 1500 Holy Roman Emperor Karl V is born in Prinsenhof, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 481 years ago Monday 24th of February 1536 231st Pope Clemens VIII, originally Ippolito Aldobrandini is born in Fano, Marche, Italy.

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(-) 285 years ago Sunday 24th of February 1732 Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General dies of natural causes at the age of 67 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 231 years ago Friday 24th of February 1786 Folklorist and mythologist Wilhelm Karl Grimm is born in Hanau, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 142 years ago Wednesday 24th of February 1875 102 die in SS Gothenburg shipwreck in Holbourne Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

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(+) 95 years ago Friday 24th of February 1922 Pop artist Richard William Hamilton is born in Pimlico, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 90 years ago Thursday 24th of February 1927 Muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso Jacqueline Roque is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 50 years ago Friday 24th of February 1967 36-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man escapes in Bridgewater State Hospital, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. DeSalvo was arrested 30 hours later in West Lynn, Massachusetts.

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(x) 48 years ago Monday 24th of February 1969 18-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen escapes from reformatory school in Ruiselede, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Van Eyken left the country for the Netherlands.

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(x) 48 years ago Monday 24th of February 1969 37-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black plays live in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

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(-) 47 years ago Tuesday 24th of February 1970 Assassin Josef Erwin Bachmann known for shooting Rudi Dutschke commits suicide by asphyxia with a plastic bag at the age of 26 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Tegel, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 44 years ago Saturday 24th of February 1973 Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by 27-year-old Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, 24-year-old Toni Antoinette Denise White, 21-year-old James Cyril Cendrillon and 17-year-old Alphons Joseph Klimek at the age of 20 in Raynes Park Road, Hampton, Australia. "After confronting her and asking more questions it came out that she had sex feelings about the hose on the vacuum cleaner and bananas in a bowl in the room. We all slapped her and she was punched in the stomach. She fell when she was pushed and hit her head on the floor."

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(-) 17 years ago Thursday 24th of February 2000 Murderess Betty Lou Beets, originally Betty Lou Dunevant is executed by lethal injection at the age of 63 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Beets was convicted to death for shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on 6 August 1983. Also found buried in a garage were the remains of another Beets' husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. Beets did not request a final meal.

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(-) 11 years ago Friday 24th of February 2006 Actor Dennis William Weaver dies of cancer at the age of 82 in Ridgway, Colorado, United States.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 24th of February 2006 The Rue Le Sueur where Serial Killer Dr. Marcel Petiot killed about 63 people at n° 21 (the original building however was torn down) in his infamous 'Triangular Chamber of Death', before and during WWII in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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