35th year - N° 60 Saturday, 29 February 2020

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35th year - N° 60 Saturday, 29 February 2020

29 February / Today's 8 Events:

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(+) 552 years ago Saturday 29th of February 1468 220th Pope Paulus III, originally Alessandro Farnese is born in Canino, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 228 years ago Wednesday 29th of February 1792 Composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini is born in Pesaro, Marche, Italy.

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(+) 156 years ago Monday 29th of February 1864 Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli is born in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(+) 112 years ago Saturday 29th of February 1908 Artist Balthasar Kłossowski, originally Kłossowski de Rola aka Balthus is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 64 years ago Wednesday 29th of February 1956 Serial killer Aileen Carol Wuornos, originally Pittman aka The Florida Highway Killer is born in Rochester, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago Wednesday 29th of February 1956 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Johannes Thimme is born in Erlangen, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 60 years ago The Bullet Traced his Head Monday 29th of February 1960 FBI Special Agent Melvin Horace Purvis aka Little Mel commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 57 in Florence, South Carolina, United States. Purvis died from a gunshot wound to the head fired from the pistol given to him by fellow agents when he resigned from the FBI. A later investigation suggested that Purvis may have shot himself accidentally while trying to extract a tracer bullet jammed in the pistol.

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(x) 24 years ago Thursday 29th of February 1996 123 die in Faucett Boeing 737-222 Flight 251 crash in Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru.

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35th year - N° 59 Friday, 28 February 2020

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35th year - N° 59 Friday, 28 February 2020

28 February / Today's 22 Events:

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(-) 1534 years ago Thursday 28th of February 0486 46th Pope Hilarius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 155 years ago Tuesday 28th of February 1865 Jane Taylor is poisoned with antimony by doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 140 years ago Saturday 28th of February 1880 Victim of John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer Olive Henrietta Olivia Robarts Durand-Deacon is born in Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 114 years ago Wednesday 28th of February 1906 Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 108 years ago Wednesday 28th of February 1912 Mistress of Benito Mussolini Clara Claretta Petacci is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 78 years ago Saturday 28th of February 1942 Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkins Jones is born in Park Nursing Home, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 73 years ago Friday 28th of February 1947 Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising after the confiscation of contraband cigarettes and subsequent killing a 40-year-old widow named Lin Jiang-mai by agents of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau enforcement team in Tianma teahouse, Taiheichō, Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan. Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.

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(+) 70 years ago Tuesday 28th of February 1950 Irish republican hunger striker Francis Hughes, originally Proinsias Ó hAodha is born in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 64 years ago Tuesday 28th of February 1956 Gangster and French public enemy No. 1 for 1950 Émile Buisson aka Mimile is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 63 years ago Thursday 28th of February 1957 Murderer Leonardo Salemi is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

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(+) 60 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1960 Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker is born in El Paso, Texas, United States.

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(+) 60 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1960 Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten, originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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(x) 49 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1971 31-year-old Performance artist Vito Hannibal Acconci performs 'Security Zone' with Lee Jaffe in Pier 18, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 46 years ago Kill Lied All Thursday 28th of February 1974 Picasso's painting 'Guernica' is sprayed over with "KILL LIES ALL" in foot-high letters 31-year-old Art gallery owner and art vandal Tony Shafrazi in Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 40 years ago She Heard Voices Thursday 28th of February 1980 Cassidy Mae Marie Johnson aka Muffin is suffocated by serial killer Christine Falling aka The Babysitter Killer in Blountstown, Florida, United States. Three days earlier Johnson was sent to a doctor's office. She was diagnosed with meningitis caused by traumatic brain injuries. In 1982 Falling confessed to murdering children because she had heard voices telling her "Kill the baby".

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(-) 34 years ago Friday 28th of February 1986 26th Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Sven Joachim Palme is shot dead by an unidentified assassin at the age of 59 in Sveavägen, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. Although more than 130 people have confessed to Palme's murder the case remains unsolved.

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(x) 32 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1988 26-year-old Serial killer Roberto Succo aka L'Assassino della Luna Piena aka Il Mostro di Mestre aka Roberto il Folle is arrested in Mestre, Veneto, Italy.

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(-) 28 years ago Friday 28th of February 1992 Double murderer David Michael Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 23 years ago His Spine Was Simultaneously Severed Friday 28th of February 1997 Bank robber Larry Eugene Phillips commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 27 in Bank of America, 6600 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, North Hollywood, California, United States. About an hour earlier Phillips and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered and robbed the bank but were confronted by LAPD officers when they exited the bank and a shootout between the officers and robbers ensued. The robbers attempted to flee the scene, Phillips on foot and Mătăsăreanu in their getaway vehicle, while continuing to exchange fire with the officers. Phillips was shot in the right hand, causing him to drop his Beretta 92FS pistol. After re trieving it, he placed the muzzle under his chin and fired. Phillips was simultaneously shot by a bullet that severed his spine.

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(-) 23 years ago There Were Two and a Half Minutes of Uninterrupted Gunfire Friday 28th of February 1997 Bank robber Emil Decebal Mătăsăreanu dies from trauma due to excessive blood loss coming from two gunshot wounds in his left thigh at the age of 31 in Bank of America, 6600 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, North Hollywood, California, United States. About an hour earlier Mătăsăreanu and Larry Phillips entered and robbed the bank but were confronted by LAPD officers when they exited the bank and a shootout between the officers and robbers ensued. The robbers attempted to flee the scene, Phillips on foot and Mătăsăreanu in their getaway car, while continuing to exchange fire with the officers. Mătăsăreanu took cover behind the getaway car and engaged them two-and-a-half minutes of almost uninterrupted gunfire. One SWAT officer fired his AR-15 below the cars and wounded Mătăsăreanu in his unprotected lower legs; he was soon unable to continue and put his hands up to show surrender. The police radioed for an ambulance but Mătăsăreanu, loudly swearing profusely and goading the police to shoot him, died before the ambulance and EMTs were allowed to reach the scene almost 70 minutes later.

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(-) 18 years ago He Was the Warden Thursday 28th of February 2002 Murderer Monty Allen Delk is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. When the warden asked if he had a final statement Delk shouted. "I am the warden! Get your warden off this gurney and shut up!"

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(-) 7 years ago Thursday 28th of February 2013 Great Train Robber Bruce Richard Reynolds known for masterminding the 1963 Great Train Robbery dies of poor health at the age of 82 in Croydon, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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35th year - N° 58 Thursday, 27 February 2020

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35th year - N° 58 Thursday, 27 February 2020

27 February / Today's 25 Events:

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(x) 290 years ago Monday 27th of February 1730 Start of the trial against 65-year-old Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General for the rape of Anne Bond on 10 November 1729 in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The jury quickly found Charteris guilty. On 2 March, he was sentenced to death and held in Newgate Prison. On 10 April 1730 after a substantial campaign to pardon Charteris, joined by Anne Bond, King George II granted him a royal pardon.

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(x) 166 years ago Monday 27th of February 1854 44-year-old Romantic composer Robert Schumann tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the Rhine River in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Schumann was rescued by boatmen and taken home, he asked to be taken to an asylum for the insane.

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(+) 159 years ago Wednesday 27th of February 1861 Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy is born in Ludbreška ulica 13, Kraljevec, Međimurska županija, Austria-Hungary.

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(-) 133 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1887 Composer Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies of poor health at the age of 54 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 118 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1902 Writer John Ernst Steinbeck is born in Salinas, California, United States.

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(+) 107 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1913 Philosopher Paul Jean Gustave Ricœur is born in Valence, Drôme, France.

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(+) 107 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1913 Writer and playwright Irwin Shaw, originally Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 90 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1930 Actress and philanthropist Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is born in Thomasville, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago Saturday 27th of February 1932 Actress Elizabeth Rosemond 'Liz' Taylor is born in Heathwood, 8 Wildwood Road, Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 87 years ago Monday 27th of February 1933 24-year-old Communist and presumed arsonist Marinus Van der Lubbe known for the Reichstag fire is arrested in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 84 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1936 Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Leningrad, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. Conscious until his very last moment Pavlov asked one of his students to sit beside his bed and to record the circumstances of his dying.

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(-) 73 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1947 Double murderer Walter Graham Rowland is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 40 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(+) 65 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1955 Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 62 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1958 Punk icon Nancy Laura Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy is born in University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 50 years ago Friday 27th of February 1970 32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 7th 'Abreaktionsspiel' in Aktionsraum 1, Waltherstraße 25, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 47 years ago Tuesday 27th of February 1973 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement seize and occupy the town following the failure of an effort of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization to impeach tribal president Richard Wilson, whom they accused of corruption and abuse of opponents in Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, United States.

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(x) 45 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1975 53-year-old Politician candidate for mayor of West Berlin Peter Lorenz is kidnapped by the Bewegung 2. Juni in Quermatenweg 128, Zehlendorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. The terrorists demanded a release of several imprisoned group members, including founder of Die Rote Armee Fraktion Horst Mahler and future RAF terrorists Verena Becker, Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, Ingrid Siepmann, Rolf Heißler and Rolf Pohle. After the terrorists had been flown out to Aden, Lorenz was set free on 4 March. The kidnappers were Ralf Reinders, Ronald Fritzsch, Gerald Kl öpper, Andreas Vogel and Till Meyer.

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(x) 36 years ago Monday 27th of February 1984 Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in United States Federal Building and Courthouse, 605 West Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

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(x) 28 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1992 42-year-old Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper is arrested in Miami, Florida, United States.

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(-) 24 years ago Tuesday 27th of February 1996 Mass murderer Kenneth Granviel is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 16 years ago Friday 27th of February 2004 49-year-old Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, originally Chizuo Matsumoto known for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway is sentenced to death by hanging in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(x) 16 years ago Friday 27th of February 2004 116 die in SuperFerry 14 bomb explosion in Manila Bay, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines. Redondo Cain Dellosa later admitted to planting the bomb on board for the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group. Founder of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr. was arrested in Bahrain on 24 July 2008 as the mastermind behind the bombing.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 27th of February 2005 Dorothea Olkowski's impressive high heels during her lecture at AMVK's 'HeadNurse' booklaunch in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 13 years ago Tuesday 27th of February 2007 Double murderer Donald Anthony Miller is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Miller's last meal request was for one piece of fried chicken, ketchup, one bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, two enchiladas, sweet tea, and a cinnamon roll.

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(-) 5 years ago His Long and Prosperous Life Ended Friday 27th of February 2015 Actor Leonard Simon Nimoy aka Mr. Spock dies of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 84 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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