33rd year - N° 137 Thursday, 17 May 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 137 Thursday, 17 May 2018

17 May / Today's 16 Events:

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(-) 508 years ago Tuesday 17th of May 1510 Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, originally Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 152 years ago Thursday 17th of May 1866 Pianist and composer Erik Satie, originally Éric Alfred Leslie Satie is born in Honfleur, Basse-Normandie, France.

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(+) 150 years ago He Was no Veg-O-Matic Sunday 17th of May 1868 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Horace Elgin Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 145 years ago Saturday 17th of May 1873 Writer Henri Barbusse is born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 118 years ago Thursday 17th of May 1900 25-year-old Mass murderer John Filip Nordlund aka Mälarmördaren aka Mordlund aka Svarte Filip kills the Princ Carl steamboat's captain Olof Rönngren, a butcher, an old lady, a farmer and a cattle merchant and wounds another nine passengers in Arboga, Västmanlands Län, Sweden. Nordlund's plan was to rob and kill as many people as possible on the ship and steal the ship's register. To avoid early detection he also planned to torch the ship. This plan failed because scared passengers on the boat managed to attract the attention of the Köping ferry.

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(+) 114 years ago Il n'Était pas un Moko Tuesday 17th of May 1904 Actor Jean Gabin, originally Jean-Alexis Moncorgé is born in 23 Boulevard Rochechouart, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 94 years ago Saturday 17th of May 1924 Numerous skulls and bones are found in the river Leine between Schloss Herrenhausen and the Bruckmühle. They are all presumed victims of 45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 91 years ago Tuesday 17th of May 1927 28-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for malicious wounding in South Western Magistrates Court, 176A Lavender Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 81 years ago He Rode Easy Monday 17th of May 1937 Actor and film director Dennis Lee Hopper is born in Dodge City, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 77 years ago Saturday 17th of May 1941 36-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is released from prison on the occasion of the 2.600th anniversary celebrations of the mythical founding of Japan in Tochigi, Kantō, Japan.

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(+) 55 years ago Friday 17th of May 1963 Victim of Bobbie Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist Kim Marie Swann is born in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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(-) 38 years ago Saturday 17th of May 1980 Martyn Duffey is drowned in the kitchen sink by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 30 years ago Tuesday 17th of May 1988 Mass murderer Robert A. Hawkins aka The Omaha Mall Gunman is born in RAF Lakenheath, Lakenheath, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 17th of May 2007 On the way from Tampere for a performance in Kulttuuritalo Annis, Annankatu 6, Pori, Satakunta, Finland.

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(-) 8 years ago Monday 17th of May 2010 Entertainer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter and professional whistler Bobbejaan Schoepen, originally Modest Schoepen dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 6 years ago Thursday 17th of May 2012 Singer-songwriter Donna Summer, originally LaDonna Adrian Gaines aka The Queen of Disco dies of lung cancer at the age of 64 in Naples, Florida, United States. Summer believed she developed her lung cancer by inhaling toxic particles following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

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