Wednesday, August 14, 2019

34th year - N° 226 Wednesday, 14 August 2019

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34th year - N° 226 Wednesday, 14 August 2019

14 August / Today's 34 Events:
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555 years ago

Sunday 14th of August 1464

210th Pope Pius II, originally Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini dies of fever at the age of 59 in Ancona, Marche, Italy.


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277 years ago

Tuesday 14th of August 1742

251st Pope Pius VII, originally Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti is born in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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179 years ago

Friday 14th of August 1840

Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, originally Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing known for Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie is born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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152 years ago

Wednesday 14th of August 1867

Baby farmer and murderess Rhoda Willis aka Leslie James is born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom.


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131 years ago

Tuesday 14th of August 1888

KZ-Aufseherin Emma Zimmer, originally Emma Anne Mezel is born in Schlüchtern, Hessen, Germany.


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113 years ago

Tuesday 14th of August 1906

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Paul Bronichewski is born in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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112 years ago She Farmed the Last Baby

Wednesday 14th of August 1907

Baby farmer and murderess Rhoda Willis aka Leslie James is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Cardiff Prison, Adamsdown, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

Willis was the only woman to be hanged in Wales in the 20th century and the last baby farmer to be executed.


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109 years ago

Sunday 14th of August 1910

Composer, musicologist and acoustician Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer is born in Nancy, Lorraine, France.


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94 years ago

Friday 14th of August 1925

Murderer Arthur Henry Bishop is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Bishop murdered 26-year-old Francis Edward Rix at 24 Charles Street, Mayfair, London on 7 June 1925.


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93 years ago

Saturday 14th of August 1926

Film director Lina Wertmüller, originally Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spañol von Braueich is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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83 years ago

Friday 14th of August 1936

Murderer Rainey Bethea is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States.

Bethea's last meal request was for fried chicken, pork chops, mashed potatoes, pickled cucumbers, cornbread, lemon pie, and ice cream. A crowd of 20.000 people gathered to watch the execution with thousands coming from out of town.


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78 years ago

Thursday 14th of August 1941

Singer-songwriter and musician David Van Cortlandt Crosby known from the band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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74 years ago War Er Nicht Über Berlin

Tuesday 14th of August 1945

Film director Wim Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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69 years ago

Monday 14th of August 1950

Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man known for organising his own disappearance and presumed death is born in Hartlepool, North East, United Kingdom.


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68 years ago

Tuesday 14th of August 1951

Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst dies of unknown causes at the age of 82 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.


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63 years ago He Was the Man in Steel

Tuesday 14th of August 1956

Poet, playwright and theatre director Bertolt Eugen Friedrich Brecht dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

In his will Brecht provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms.


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61 years ago

Thursday 14th of August 1958

99 die in KLM Flight 607-E Lockheed Super Constellation named Hugo de Groot crash into the ocean in northwest of Ireland, the North Atlantic Ocean.


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58 years ago

Monday 14th of August 1961

Actor Edwin Cooper aka Bozo the Clown dies of unknown causes at the age of 41 in Denver, Colorado, United States.


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54 years ago

Saturday 14th of August 1965

Film director Roger Vadim, originally Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov dies of unknown causes in Dunes Hotel, 3600 Las Vegas Boulevard S., Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Vadim and Fonda divorced on 16 January 1973.


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54 years ago

Saturday 14th of August 1965

Ulrich Kahlweiß is abducted, sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder in Velbert, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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50 years ago

Thursday 14th of August 1969

Roy Kenner Dumas is strangled by serial killer George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.


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47 years ago

Monday 14th of August 1972

156 die in Interflug Ilyushin Il-62 fire and crash in Königs Wusterhausen, Brandenburg, Germany.


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39 years ago

Thursday 14th of August 1980

Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten, originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten is shot dead by 29-year-old Paul Snider at the age of 20 in 10881 West Clarkson Road, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Stratten as well as Snider's naked bodies were found in Snider's room both facially blasted with a Mossberg 12 gauge. Police believed that Snider murdered Stratten and then abused and raped the corpse before turning the shotgun on himself.


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37 years ago

Saturday 14th of August 1982

Opal Charmaine Mills is strangled by serial killer Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, United States.


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29 years ago

Tuesday 14th of August 1990

Ivan Fomin is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russia.


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25 years ago His Testicle Recovery Took Two Days

Sunday 14th of August 1994

45-year-old Terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal is transferred him to French agents of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire who fly him to Paris for trial in Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.

Sánchez was recovering from a minor testicle operation two days before.


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25 years ago

Sunday 14th of August 1994

Writer Elias Canetti dies of unknown causes at the age of 89 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.


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22 years ago

Thursday 14th of August 1997

29-year-old Serial killer Sipho Mandla Agmatir Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler aka The Phantom Sniper aka The Canefield Killer is arrested by heavily armed policemen on suspicion of killing at least 19 young women in the Besters squatter camp in Phoenix, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.


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21 years ago He Plunged to Death

Friday 14th of August 1998

Serial killer Gary Charles Evans drowns in an attempt to escape at the age of 44 in Troy-Menands Bridge, Menands, New York, United States.

Evans was being transported from Rensselaer County to an Albany court. Evans had a handcuff key shoved deep into his sinus cavity and managed to free his hands while in the police van. When they reached the Troy-Menands Bridge Evans suddenly kicked out the side window of the vehicle, jumped out and started running. When police cornered him Evans leaped off the bridge and plunged to his death into the shallows of the Hudson River over 60 feet below.


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21 years ago

Friday 14th of August 1998

Murderer Zane Brown Hill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.


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17 years ago

Wednesday 14th of August 2002

Cop killer Javier Suárez Medina is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.



16 years ago The Eyes had it

Thursday 14th of August 2003

The Nayada Kanca Studio Musik where I had a rehearsal with Henry Foundation aka Batman for a music performance at the BB's Club, organized by Pink Girl Go Wild EuNice Nuh in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.


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14 years ago

Sunday 14th of August 2005

121 die in Helios Airways Flight 522 Boeing 737-31S crash in Grammatiko, Attica, Greece.

A loss of cabin pressurization incapacitated the crew, leaving the aircraft flying on autopilot until it ran out of fuel and crashed.


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10 years ago

Friday 14th of August 2009

61-year-old Member of the 'Manson Family' Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky known for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford is released from prison on parole in Federal Medical Center Carswell, Fort Worth, Texas, United States.


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