Tuesday, February 28, 2017

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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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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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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