33rd year - N° 223 Saturday, 11 August 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 223 Saturday, 11 August 2018

11 August / Today's 24 Events:

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(-) 190 years ago He Became a Book Cover Monday 11th of August 1828 Murderer William Corder aka The Red Barn Murderer is executed by hanging by John Foxton at the age of 25 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. Corder's body was taken back to the courtroom at Shire Hall where it was slit open along the abdomen to expose the muscles, over 5,000 people queued to see it. Corder's skin was tanned by surgeon George Creed and used to bind an account of the murder.

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(+) 181 years ago Friday 11th of August 1837 4th President of France Sadi Marie François Carnot is born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.

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(x) 126 years ago Thursday 11th of August 1892 32-year-old Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is arrested on suspicion of hacking her parents to death in Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 105 years ago Monday 11th of August 1913 Writer Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson is born in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 93 years ago Tuesday 11th of August 1925 Double murderer George Gumtow is born in Comstock, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 89 years ago Habe Er Blut in Sich Aufgenommen Sunday 11th of August 1929 Maria Hahn is stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Papendell, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. "Ich hatte der Hahn zuerst eine Verletzung am Halse beigebracht. Aus dieser Verletzung habe ich Blut in mich aufgenommen von der Hahn, größere Mengen. (Frage [von Prof. Sioli, Anm. JNK]: Sie meinen getrunken?) Ja. Hierbei trat die Auslösung der sexuellen Erregung ein. Das getrunkene Blut habe ich nachher wieder ausgebrochen."

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(+) 86 years ago Thursday 11th of August 1932 Film director and writer Fernando Arrabal, originally Fernando Arrabal Terán is born in Melilla, Ciudad autónoma de Melilla, Spain.

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(+) 85 years ago Friday 11th of August 1933 Theatre director Jerzy Marian Grotowski is born in Rzeszów, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland.

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(+) 70 years ago Wednesday 11th of August 1948 Simpletone Rudy Cabie is born in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 70 years ago Wednesday 11th of August 1948 Revolutionary student Jan Palach aka Pochodeň č. 1 is born in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(-) 64 years ago Wednesday 11th of August 1954 Painter and child murderer William Sanchez de Pina Hepper is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 62 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 62 years ago He Lost His Drip Saturday 11th of August 1956 Abstract expressionist painter Jackson Paul Pollock known for his drip paintings dies in a single-car crash in his Oldsmobile convertible while driving under the influence of alcohol at the age of 44 in Springs, New York, United States. Edith Metzger was also killed in the accident. Artist and Pollock's mistress Ruth Kligman survived.

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(+) 61 years ago Sunday 11th of August 1957 White Power punk rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson is born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 39 years ago Saturday 11th of August 1979 34-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company burns the remains of Stephen Holmes, murdered on 30 December 1978, in his back garden in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 38 years ago Monday 11th of August 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Untitled Series - 4' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. With a razorblade I have cut 6 crosses in my body going from my left shoulder to my left knee.

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(+) 34 years ago Saturday 11th of August 1984 School shooter Mitchell Scott Johnson known for the Jonesboro Massacre is born in Grand Meadow, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago Tuesday 11th of August 1992 Murderer Curtis Lee Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 24 years ago Thursday 11th of August 1994 Actor Peter Wilton Cushing known for playing Baron Victor Frankenstein and Professor Van Helsing dies of prostate cancer at the age of 81 in Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(-) 19 years ago Wednesday 11th of August 1999 Murderer James Otto Earhart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 56 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 11th of August 1999 A sun eclipse as seen through my welding gear in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 11th of August 2003 A weird roadside shack on the outskirts of town in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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(x) 13 years ago Thursday 11th of August 2005 21-year-old School shooter Mitchell Scott Johnson known for the Jonesboro Massacre is released from prison after serving 7 years in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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(x) 12 years ago Friday 11th of August 2006 45-year-old Serial killer Wayne Adam Ford aka The Breast Severer is sentenced to death in San Bernardino, California, United States. Ford resides on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

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(x) 12 years ago Friday 11th of August 2006 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV plays 'Silence of the Pigs' in Factor 44, Bleekhofstraat 44, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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