32nd year - N° 131 Thursday, 11 May 2017

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32nd year - N° 131 Thursday, 11 May 2017

11 May / Today's 12 Events:

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(+) 206 years ago Saturday 11th of May 1811 Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker is born in Meklong, Samut Songkhram, Thailand.

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(+) 129 years ago Friday 11th of May 1888 Composer Irving Berlin, originally Israel Isidore Beilin is born in Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 123 years ago Friday 11th of May 1894 Leider van het Nederlandse Volk Anton Adriaan (Ad) Mussert is born in Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

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(+) 113 years ago Wednesday 11th of May 1904 Surrealist artist and first Marqués de Dalí de Pubol Salvador Dalí, originally Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech is born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

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(x) 70 years ago Sunday 11th of May 1947 42-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess escapes in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It was Judd's third escape, but she was recaptured 12 hours later.

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(x) 58 years ago Monday 11th of May 1959 55-year-old Actor Peter Lorre, originally László Löwenstein suffers a heart attack while directing a film in Granada, Andalucía, Spain.

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(x) 57 years ago Wednesday 11th of May 1960 54-year-old SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Otto Eichmann known for organising the Holocaust is captured by the Israeli Mossad living under the assumed name of Ricardo Klement in Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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(x) 52 years ago They Had a Curfew Tuesday 11th of May 1965 33-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is arrested for public drunkenness in Starkville, Mississippi, United States. Cash described it as being picked up for picking flowers. He was held overnight at the city jail.

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(-) 36 years ago Monday 11th of May 1981 Musician Bob Robert Nesta Marley dies of lung cancer and a brain tumour at the age of 36 in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States.

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(x) 21 years ago Saturday 11th of May 1996 110 die in ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Flight 592 crash in Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area, The Everglades, Florida, United States.

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(-) 19 years ago Monday 11th of May 1998 Serial killer Hans van Zon, originally Johannes Marinus van Zon dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 57 in Delfzijl, Groningen, Netherlands.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 11th of May 2007 A basement air vent in Kattenberg 79, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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