36th year - N° 59 Sunday, 28 February 2021

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36th year - N° 59 Sunday, 28 February 2021

28 February / Today's 22 Events:

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(-) 1535 years ago Thursday 28th of February 0486 46th Pope Hilarius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 156 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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(+) 141 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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(+) 115 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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(+) 109 years ago Wednesday 28th of February 1912 Mistress of Benito Mussolini Clara Claretta Petacci is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 79 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) 74 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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(+) 71 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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(-) 65 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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(-) 64 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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(+) 61 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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(+) 61 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) 50 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) 47 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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(-) 41 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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(-) 35 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) 33 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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(-) 29 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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(-) 24 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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(-) 24 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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(-) 19 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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(-) 8 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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36th year - N° 58 Saturday, 27 February 2021

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36th year - N° 58 Saturday, 27 February 2021

27 February / Today's 26 Events:

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(x) 291 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) 167 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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(+) 160 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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(-) 134 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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(+) 119 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1902 Writer John Ernst Steinbeck is born in Salinas, California, United States.

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(+) 108 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1913 Philosopher Paul Jean Gustave Ricœur is born in Valence, Drôme, France.

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(+) 108 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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(+) 91 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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(+) 89 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) 88 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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(-) 85 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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(-) 74 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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(+) 66 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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(+) 63 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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(+) 53 years ago Tuesday 27th of February 1968 Murderess Lisa Marie Montgomery is born in Melvern, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 51 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) 48 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) 46 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) 37 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) 29 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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(-) 25 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) 17 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) 17 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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16 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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(-) 14 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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(-) 6 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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36th year - N° 57 Friday, 26 February 2021

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36th year - N° 57 Friday, 26 February 2021

26 February / Today's 25 Events:

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(+) 219 years ago Friday 26th of February 1802 Romantic poet and writer Victor Marie Hugo is born in 140 Grande Rue, Besançon, Franche-Comté, France.

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(+) 192 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1829 Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss, originally Löb Strauß known for Levi Strauss & Co. blue jeans is born in Marktstraße 33, Buttenheim, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 175 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1846 Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill is born in Napsinekee Hollow, Le Claire, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 169 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1852 Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 169 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1852 Serial poisoner Hélène Jégado is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Champ-de-Mars, Rennes, Bretagne, France. Jégado is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years.

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(+) 113 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1908 Animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director Tex Frederick Bean Avery is born in Taylor, Texas, United States.

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(-) 112 years ago Friday 26th of February 1909 Murderer Cyrus Y. Timmons is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 107 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1914 Murderer George Ball aka George Sumner aka The Sack Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. He killed his employer Christina Catherine Bradfield in her shop at 86 Old Hall Street in Liverpool on 10 December 1913.

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(+) 93 years ago Sunday 26th of February 1928 Singer-songwriter and musician Fats Antoine Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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(+) 89 years ago Friday 26th of February 1932 Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States.

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(-) 78 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 SS-Obergruppenführer and first commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies as his Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft is shot down by Soviet troops at the age of 51 in Artelnoje, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 78 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 Murderer William E. Wallace is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 54 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. Wallace was the oldest man executed in the Oregon State Penitentiary Gas Chamber.

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(x) 78 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 The first transport of Gypsies arrives in KZ Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(+) 63 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1958 Writer Michel Houellebecq, originally Michel Thomas is born in Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France.

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(x) 62 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1959 Peter Paul Rubens' 'Der Höllensturz der Verdammten' is attacked with acid by 53-year-old Art vandal Walter Menzl in Alte Pinakothek, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 57 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 3 / Klarsichtpackung / Versumpfung in Einer Truhe – Panierung Eines Weiblichen Gesäßes – Wälzen im Schlamm' in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 50 years ago Friday 26th of February 1971 Actor and singer Fernandel, originally Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Avenue Foch, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 37 years ago Sunday 26th of February 1984 Rosario Teresa Gonzales aka Chary is presumably abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Grand Prix Race Track, Miami, Florida, United States.

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(x) 35 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1986 50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador aka The Monster of Charquito is arrested only a few minutes after he had murdered a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. Barbosa was charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months after he escaped from Gorgona prison in Colombia in November 1984.

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(-) 34 years ago She Came Out from the Cold Thursday 26th of February 1987 Serial poisoner Audrey Marie Hilley, originally Audrey Marie Frazier dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Anniston, Alabama, United States. Hilley escaped from prison and had been crawling around in the woods for four days of frequent rain and numb from temperatures dropping to the low 30s. She was taken to a local hospital and underwent emergency treatment for hypothermia.

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(-) 30 years ago Tuesday 26th of February 1991 Murderer Lawrence Lee Buxton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 23 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1998 Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil Isabel Dorsett dies of breast cancer at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States.

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(-) 21 years ago Saturday 26th of February 2000 Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 51 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained.

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(x) 18 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 2003 Noise music band Club Moral play their 93rd concert on the occasion of the 'Synesthetics' exhibition in Cultuurcentrum, Minderbroedersgang 5, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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8 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 26th of February 2013 James Chance and Les Contortions playing live in Magasin 4, Avenue du Port, 51b, Brussel, Belgium.

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