33rd year - N° 141 Monday, 21 May 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 141 Monday, 21 May 2018

21 May / Today's 29 Events:

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(+) 547 years ago Sunday 21st of May 1471 Painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is born in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 547 years ago Sunday 21st of May 1471 King of England Henry VI of England dies of melancholy after hearing of his son Edward's death in the Battle of Tewkesbury at the age of 50 in Tower of London, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 385 years ago Saturday 21st of May 1633 Composer Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre is born in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 174 years ago Tuesday 21st of May 1844 Painter Henri Julien Félix Rousseau aka Le Douanier is born in Laval, Mayenne, France.

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(+) 115 years ago Thursday 21st of May 1903 President of Argentina Perdo Eugenio Aramburu is born in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.

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(+) 111 years ago Tuesday 21st of May 1907 West German Ambassador to Guatemala Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti is born in Schloss Kapfing, Landshut, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 104 years ago Thursday 21st of May 1914 Victim of Neville Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo Margery Aimee Brownell Gardner, originally Margery Wheat is born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 102 years ago He Was not an Orphan Sunday 21st of May 1916 Writer Harold Robbins, originally Harold Rubin is born in New York City, New York, United States. Robbins later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys' home whereas in reality he was the son of well-educated Russian- and Polish-Jewish immigrants.

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(x) 100 years ago Tuesday 21st of May 1918 21-year-old Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer assaults an unidentified girl in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 97 years ago Saturday 21st of May 1921 24-year-old Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer is sentenced for assault on 12-year-old Mary Summers and committed to Napa State Mental Hospital in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Saturday 21st of May 1921 Nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(x) 86 years ago Saturday 21st of May 1932 35-year-old Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, landing in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 75 years ago Friday 21st of May 1943 46-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is arrested by the French Gestapo, suspected of leading an escape-route for jews under the alias of 'Dr. Eugène' in 66 Rue de Caumartin, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 67 years ago Monday 21st of May 1951 Serial killer Douglas Edward Gretzler is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 58 years ago Saturday 21st of May 1960 Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal is born in Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, 1821 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 55 years ago Tuesday 21st of May 1963 28-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker sets fire to the basement of a building he owns in 2039 East Fletcher Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Kallinger collected 15.000,- $ on insurance money.

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(x) 50 years ago Tuesday 21st of May 1968 26-year-old Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkins Jones is arrested for possession of cannabis in his apartment in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The jury found Jones guilty but the judge had sympathy for him, instead of jailing him he fined him £50 plus £105 in costs and told him: "For goodness sake, don't get into trouble again or it really will be serious".

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(-) 48 years ago Thursday 21st of May 1970 Jutta Rahn is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Hösel, Breitscheid, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Rahn's 20-year-old neighbour Peter Schay is arrested on 8 June 1970 and charged with her murder. He spent 18 months in prison before he was acquitted on 12 November 1971 due to lack of evidence.

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(x) 46 years ago He Rose from the Dead with a Hammer Sunday 21st of May 1972 34-year-old Geologist and art vandal László Tóth attacks Michelangelo's Pietà with a geologist's hammer in Basilica di San Pietro, Rome, Lazio, Italy. With fifteen blows Tóth removed Mary's arm at the elbow, knocked off a chunk of her nose, and chipped one of her eyelids while shouting "I am Jesus Christ - risen from the dead". Toth was subdued by bystanders, including American sculptor Bob Cassilly, who was the first person to pull him away from the Pietà.

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(-) 46 years ago Sunday 21st of May 1972 Billy Gene Baulch is tortured and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 925 Schuler Street, Houston, Texas, United States. He was strangled by Wayne Henley and buried at High Island Beach.

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(x) 44 years ago He Was a Pioneer of Likes Tuesday 21st of May 1974 53-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys starts his performance 'I like America and America likes Me' in René Block Gallery, 409 West Broadway, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Wednesday 21st of May 1975 Start of the trial against Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe as leaders of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 42 years ago She Kept Breathing Friday 21st of May 1976 The artificial respiration for 22-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl is stopped in St Clare's Hospital, 25 Pocono Road, Denville, New Jersey, United States. Quinlan lived in a persistent vegetative state until her death from complications from pneumonia on 11 June 1985.

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(-) 37 years ago Thursday 21st of May 1981 Irish republican hunger striker Raymond McCreesh, originally Réamonn Mac Raois dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. McCreesh was the third to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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(-) 37 years ago Thursday 21st of May 1981 Irish republican hunger striker Patsy O'Hara, originally Pádraig Ó hEadhra dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. O'Hara was the fourth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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(x) 30 years ago Saturday 21st of May 1988 32-year-old Rampage killer Marciano Contaoe shoots 11 people in a drunken rage in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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(x) 22 years ago Tuesday 21st of May 1996 Up to 1000 die in MV Bukoba ferry capsizing in Lake Victoria, Mwanza, Nigeria. Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, who was then second in command of Al Qaeda, died in the disaster.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 21st of May 1999 A passing S-Bahn train in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 16 years ago Tuesday 21st of May 2002 Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle dies of emphysema at the age of 72 in La Jolla, California, United States.

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