32nd year - N° 142 Monday, 22 May 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 142 Monday, 22 May 2017

22 May / Today's 20 Events:

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(+) 204 years ago Saturday 22nd of May 1813 Composer Richard Wilhelm Wagner is born in Gasthof Roter und Weißer Löwe, Brühl 3, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(+) 158 years ago Sunday 22nd of May 1859 Writer Arthur Conan Ignatius Doyle known for creating Sherlock Holmes is born in 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 121 years ago Friday 22nd of May 1896 59-year-old Baby farm murderess Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, originally Hobley aka The Ogress of Reading pleads guilty to the murder of 4-months-old Doris Marmon in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. It took the jury only four and a half minutes to find Dyer guilty. There is little doubt she was responsible for many more similar deaths - possibly 400 or more - over a period of perhaps 20 years.

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(+) 110 years ago Wednesday 22nd of May 1907 Cartoonist Georges Prosper Remi aka Hergé known for his creation of Tintin is born in 25 Rue Cranz, Etterbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(+) 103 years ago He Was Teleported from Saturn Friday 22nd of May 1914 Musician Sun Ra, originally Herman Poole Blount, legally Le Sony'r Ra is born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

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(x) 102 years ago Saturday 22nd of May 1915 226 die in five train collision and fire in Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland, United Kingdom. Those killed were mainly Territorial soldiers from the Royal Scots 1/7th (Leith) Battalion heading for Gallipoli.

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(+) 93 years ago Thursday 22nd of May 1924 Singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour, originally Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian is born in Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 92 years ago Friday 22nd of May 1925 Artist Jean Tinguely is born in Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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(+) 75 years ago Friday 22nd of May 1942 Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber is born in Evergreen Park, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 66 years ago Tuesday 22nd of May 1951 Serial killer Kenneth Alessio Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler is born in Rochester, New York, United States. Bianchi was born to a prostitute who gave him up for adoption two weeks after he was born. He was adopted at three months by Frances Scioliono and her husband Nicholas Bianchi.

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(-) 58 years ago Friday 22nd of May 1959 Murderer Edward F Eckwerth is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

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(+) 57 years ago Sunday 22nd of May 1960 Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper Jacqueline Hill is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 50 years ago Monday 22nd of May 1967 251 die in L'Innovation department store fire in L'Innovation, Rue Neuve, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. The fire inspired Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin to burn down warehouses in Germany as a protest against the war in Vietnam.

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(x) 49 years ago Wednesday 22nd of May 1968 99 die in USS Scorpion (SSN-589) nuclear submarine shipwreck in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Scorpion contained highly sophisticated spy gear and spy manuals, two nuclear-tipped torpedoes, and a nuclear propulsion system. The boat was officially declared 'lost' on 5 June 1968. End October 1968 the wreck was discovered in more than 3.000m of water.

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(x) 36 years ago Friday 22nd of May 1981 35-year-old Serial killer Peter William Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper is convicted to life imprisonment for killing 13 women in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 36 years ago Friday 22nd of May 1981 23-year-old Serial killer Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer is questioned by the police near the Chattahoochee River where three days later the body of 27-year-old Nathaniel Cater was found in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Friday 22nd of May 1992 67-year-old Television host Johnny Carson known for ‘The Tonight Show’ presents his last show on NBC in Hollywood, California, United States. For the last time America heard "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!".

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(-) 25 years ago Friday 22nd of May 1992 Murder plotter Robert Black is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Black hired John Wayne Hearn to kill his wife Sandra.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 22nd of May 1999 Two men discussing at the opening of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK's exhibition at Barbara Thumm Gallery in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 7 years ago Saturday 22nd of May 2010 158 die in Air India Express Boeing 737-800 Flight 812 crash in Mangalore International Airport, Mangalore, Karnataka, India. There were 8 survivors.

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