32nd year - N° 140 Saturday, 20 May 2017

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32nd year - N° 140 Saturday, 20 May 2017

20 May / Today's 21 Events:

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(-) 740 years ago Thursday 20th of May 1277 187th Pope Ioannes XXI, originally Pedro Julião dies of injuries suffered when the roof of his bedroom collapsed on 14 May at the age of 62 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 508 years ago Thursday 20th of May 1509 Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain Christophorus Columbus dies of Reiter's syndrome at the age of 58 in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain.

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(x) 496 years ago Friday 20th of May 1521 30-year-old Founder of the Jesuits Ignatius de Loyola is severely injured when a French cannonball shatters his leg while storming the fortress in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.

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(+) 218 years ago Monday 20th of May 1799 Writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac known for La Comédie Humaine is born in Tours, Centre, France.

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(+) 166 years ago Tuesday 20th of May 1851 Inventor Emile Berliner known for developing the disc record gramophone is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 135 years ago Saturday 20th of May 1882 Writer Sigrid Undset is born in Kalundborg, Sjælland, Denmark.

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(+) 109 years ago Wednesday 20th of May 1908 Actor James Maitland Stewart is born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 102 years ago Thursday 20th of May 1915 Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Kitaigorodsky Dayan is born in Degania Alef, Emek Hayarden, Israel.

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(x) 100 years ago Sunday 20th of May 1917 20-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer has his left foot ripped open by a German hand-grenade during a bitter fight in Aisne, Picardie, France.

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(+) 92 years ago Wednesday 20th of May 1925 Aircraft designer Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(-) 90 years ago Friday 20th of May 1927 Murderer Charles J. Blackburn is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(x) 81 years ago She Kept Trying and Trying Wednesday 20th of May 1936 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is arrested walking around the street with the cut off penis and testicles of her lover Kichizo Ishida in her handbag in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. "I felt attached to Ishida's penis and thought that only after taking leave from it quietly could I then die. I unwrapped the paper holding them and gazed at his penis and scrotum. I put his penis in my mouth and even tried to insert it inside me... It didn't work however though I kept trying and trying." After her arrest, Ishida's penis and testicles were moved to Tokyo University Medical School's pathology museum. They were put on public display not long af ter the end of World War II, but they have since disappeared.

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(-) 77 years ago Monday 20th of May 1940 Leader of the Verdinaso Joris Edmond Eduard Van Severen is brutally murdered by drunken French partizans at the age of 46 in Kiosque d'Abbeville, Abbeville, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Twenty one suspects of varying political stripe were selected and executed without trial.

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(+) 73 years ago Saturday 20th of May 1944 Singer and musician Joe John Robert Cocker is born in 38 Tasker Road, Crookes, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 71 years ago Monday 20th of May 1946 Singer and actress Cher, originally Cherilyn Sarkisian aka The Goddess of Pop is born in El Centro, California, United States.

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(+) 65 years ago Tuesday 20th of May 1952 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Christian Klar is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 52 years ago Thursday 20th of May 1965 121 die in Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B Flight 705 crash in Cairo International Airport, Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt. There were 6 survivors.

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(x) 49 years ago Monday 20th of May 1968 26-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is sentenced for sodomy and sent to the Iowa Men Reformatory in Anamosa, Iowa, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago Wednesday 20th of May 1992 Murderer Roger Keith Coleman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 34 in Greensville Correctional Center, Jarratt, Virginia, United States. Coleman's last meal request was for cold pepperoni pizza, with chocolate marshmallow cookies and 7UP.

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(-) 25 years ago Wednesday 20th of May 1992 Murderer Jesus Romero is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 20th of May 2007 One of several lakes on the way from Pori for a performance in Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland.

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