32nd year - N° 236 Thursday, 24 August 2017

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32nd year - N° 236 Thursday, 24 August 2017

24 August / Today's 13 Events:

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(-) 153 years ago Wednesday 24th of August 1864 Christian mystic and visionary Jakob Lorber aka Der Schreibknecht Gottes dies of pneumonia at the age of 64 in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

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(+) 102 years ago Tuesday 24th of August 1915 Science fiction writer Alice Bradley Sheldon aka James Tiptree Jr. is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 94 years ago Friday 24th of August 1923 Heinrich Struß is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 88 years ago Saturday 24th of August 1929 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, originally Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa is born in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

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(+) 77 years ago Saturday 24th of August 1940 Serial killer Richard Fran Biegenwald aka The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer is born in Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago Thursday 24th of August 1944 News reporter Christine Chubbuck is born in Hudson, Ohio, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Monday 24th of August 1981 26-year-old Murderer Mark David Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon is sentenced to 20-years-to-life in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 33 years ago Friday 24th of August 1984 The Texas School Book Depository from where 45-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald presumably operated is destroyed by arson in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, United States.

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(-) 30 years ago He Couldn't Be Dead Monday 24th of August 1987 Fictitious Robol scientist Edward Moolenbeek dies of unknown causes in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom. In fact Moolenbeek was a fictional character created by Andrew M. McKenzie of The Hafler Trio.

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(-) 24 years ago Tuesday 24th of August 1993 Murderer Ruben Montoya Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Cantu's final request was for a piece of bubble gum, which was denied.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 24th of August 1999 A stairway down into the ocean in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 24th of August 2007 The house where on 14 May 1970 Ulrike Meinhof assisted in the freeing of Andreas Baader with Gudrun Ensslin, Irene Goergens and Ingrid Schubert, and jumped in the underground in Deutsches Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen, Miquelstraße 83, Dahlem, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 3 years ago Sunday 24th of August 2014 Actor Richard Samuel Attenborough dies of heart failure at the age of 91 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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