34th year - N° 138 Saturday, 18 May 2019

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
34th year - N° 138 Saturday, 18 May 2019

18 May / Today's 19 Events:

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(-) 204 years ago Thursday 18th of May 1815       Adelheid Miltenberg is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. Adelheid was Gottfried's daughter.

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(+) 138 years ago Wednesday 18th of May 1881 Architect Walter Adolph Georg Gropius known for founding the Bauhaus School is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 108 years ago Thursday 18th of May 1911 Romantic composer Gustav Mahler dies of bacterial endocarditis at the age of 51 in Löw Sanatorium, Mariannengasse 20, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 107 years ago Saturday 18th of May 1912 Singer and television personality Perry Pierino Ronald Como is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 102 years ago Friday 18th of May 1917 Axe murderess Germaine Leloy-Godefroy is born in Crosmières, Pays de la Loire, France.

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(+) 99 years ago Tuesday 18th of May 1920 Ioannes Paulus II, originally Karol Józef Wojtyła is born in Wadowice, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.

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(+) 92 years ago Wednesday 18th of May 1927 Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is born in Fargo, North Dakota, United States.

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(-) 92 years ago A Criminal was Made Wednesday 18th of May 1927 Mass murderer Andrew Philip Kehoe detonates dynamite stored inside his shrapnel-filled truck, killing himself and Superintendent Huyck during a struggle at the age of 55 in Bath Consolidated School, Bath Township, Michigan, United States. Between 16 May and the morning of 18 May Kehoe killed his wife Ellen 'Nellie' Price. He moved her body to a farm building before setting off incendiary explosions in their house and farm buildings. About the same time he had arranged timed explosions in the new Bath Consolidated School building. In all 44 people died and 58 were injured in the explosions. After the bombings investigators found a wooden sign wired to the farm's fence with Kehoe's last message "Criminals are made, not born".

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(x) 83 years ago She Couldn't Take His Body with Her Monday 18th of May 1936 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe strangles her lover Kichizo Ishida and cuts off his penis and testicles in Ogu, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. "Because I couldn't take his head or body with me. I wanted to take the part of him that brought back to me the most vivid memories."

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(-) 82 years ago She Was Wasted Away Tuesday 18th of May 1937 Double murderess Christine Papin dies of cachexia at the age of 32 in Asyle Départemental Saint-Méen, Rennes, Bretagne, France.

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(-) 77 years ago Monday 18th of May 1942 Gladys Hosking is strangled by serial killer Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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(x) 74 years ago He Carried a Length of Rope Friday 18th of May 1945 18-year-old Serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer is caught in the act of breaking into the apartment of Elma Hamum in Vrain Street, Denver, Colorado, United States. A length of rope and a .25-caliber pistol were found in Glatman's possession. Glatman was charged with first-degree robbery and his parents posted bail.

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(x) 66 years ago Monday 18th of May 1953 The body of Beryl Evans is exhumed to establish wether 54-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place had indeed murdered her, in Gunnersbury Cemetery, 143 Gunnersbury Avenue, Acton, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 59 years ago He Was Mummy's Boy Wednesday 18th of May 1960 Spree killer and mass murderer Michael Robert Ryan aka The Rambo Killer is born in Savernake Hospital, Marlborough, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 50 years ago Sunday 18th of May 1969 Triple murderer Sean Richard Sellers aka The Schoolboy Night Stalker aka The Night Roomer is born in Corcoran, California, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Sunday 18th of May 1980 Musician Ian Kevin Curtis known from Joy Division commits suicide by hanging at the age of 23 in 77 Barton Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Curtis had just viewed Werner Herzog's film 'Stroszek' and listened to Iggy Pop's album 'The Idiot'.

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(-) 20 years ago Il n'avait plus de Plaisir Tuesday 18th of May 1999 Mass murderer Günter Hermann Günter commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 37 in Hotel Mon Plaisir, 218 Route d'Arlon, Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Ewen killed four people and wounded at least nine others in Dillingen, Germany on 16 May 1999, before escaping to Sierck-les-Bains, France, where he killed another person and wounded two more. Hunted by German and French police Ewen committed suicide.

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(-) 15 years ago Tuesday 18th of May 2004 Double murderer Kelsey Patterson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 18th of May 2007 An easy step for dogs in a shop window while scoring all kinds of useful artefacts for a performance in Kulttuuritalo Annis, Annankatu 6, Pori, Satakunta, Finland.

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