33rd year - N° 234 Wednesday, 22 August 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 234 Wednesday, 22 August 2018

22 August / Today's 14 Events:

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(+) 156 years ago Friday 22nd of August 1862 Composer Claude Achille Debussy is born in 38 Rue au Pain, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 127 years ago Saturday 22nd of August 1891 Artist Jacques Lipchitz, originally Chaim Jacob Lipschitz is born in Druskininkai, Dzūkija, Lithuania.

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(+) 116 years ago War Sie ein Blaues Licht Friday 22nd of August 1902 Dancer, actress, film director and photographer Leni Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 110 years ago He Was in the Picture Saturday 22nd of August 1908 Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson aka The Master of Candid Photography is born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France.

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(+) 98 years ago Sunday 22nd of August 1920 Science fiction writer Ray Douglas Bradbury known for Fahrenheit 451 is born in Waukegan, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 90 years ago Wednesday 22nd of August 1928 58-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is arrested for petty larceny in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 90 years ago Wednesday 22nd of August 1928 Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is born in Burg Mödrath, Mödrath, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 66 years ago Friday 22nd of August 1952 Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 53 years ago Sunday 22nd of August 1965 Hermann Schmitz is stabbed to death by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Großenbaum, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Schmitz' girlfriend Marion Veen escaped unharmed.

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(+) 51 years ago Tuesday 22nd of August 1967 Yukiko Okada, originally Kayo Satō aka Yukko is born in Ichinomiya, Chūbu, Japan.

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(-) 42 years ago Sunday 22nd of August 1976 Lutheran pastor Oskar Brüsewitz known for his protest against the repression of religion in the Communist state of East Germany dies of of his severe burns due to his self-immolation on 18 August 1976 in front of his church at the age of 47 in Michaeliskirche, Michaeliskirchhof 9, Zeitz, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. On the day of his protest suicide Brüsewitz carried pamphlets accusing the communists of repression. "Funkspruch an alle: Die Kirche in der DDR klagt den Kommunismus an! Wegen Unterdrückung in Schulen an Kindern und Jugendlichen."

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(-) 35 years ago Monday 22nd of August 1983 Furniture designer, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament sympathiser and art vandal James Gore-Graham dies from suffering 90% burns at the age of 37 in Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The day before Gore-Graham was caught running in flames having set fire to David Mach's 'Polaris' sculpture that was made of about 6.000 car tyres outside the Royal Festival Hall.

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(-) 29 years ago His Soul Lived Forever Tuesday 22nd of August 1989 Founder of the Black Panther Party Huey Percy Newton is fatally shot by 24-year-old Black Guerilla Family member Tyrone Robinson at the age of 47 in 1400 Block, 9th Street, Oakland, California, United States. Newton's last words as he stood facing his killer were "You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!"

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(-) 27 years ago Thursday 22nd of August 1991 Murderer Derick Lynn Peterson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Mecklenburg Correctional Center, Boydton, Virginia, United States.

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