37th year - N° 36 Saturday, 5 February 2022

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
37th year - N° 36 Saturday, 5 February 2022

5 February / Today's 25 Events:

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(+) 182 years ago Wednesday 5th of February 1840 Inventor John Boyd Dunlop is born in Dreghorn, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 174 years ago Saturday 5th of February 1848 Writer Joris-Karl Charles Marie Georges Huysmans is born in 11 Rue Suger, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 174 years ago Saturday 5th of February 1848 Outlaw Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr aka Belle Star is born in Carthage, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 144 years ago Tuesday 5th of February 1878 Automobile designer and manufacturer André Gustave Citroën is born in 44 Rue Laffitte, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 141 years ago Saturday 5th of February 1881 Bootlegger and murderer Charles Charlie Birger, originally Shachna Itzak Birger is born in Adygea, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

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(+) 114 years ago Wednesday 5th of February 1908 Kidnapper and multiple murderer Eugen Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil is born in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 114 years ago Wednesday 5th of February 1908 Stage actress Peg Millicent Lilian Entwistle is born in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(+) 108 years ago Thursday 5th of February 1914 Writer, painter and spoken word performer William Seward Burroughs is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 85 years ago Friday 5th of February 1937 Psychoanalyst and writer Lou Andreas-Salomé, originally Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé dies of uremia at the age of 76 in Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 76 years ago Tuesday 5th of February 1946 Actress Charlotte Tessa Rampling is born in Sturmer, Essex, United Kingdom.

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(x) 74 years ago Thursday 5th of February 1948 19-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is convicted of auto theft and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 63 years ago Thursday 5th of February 1959 Model and actress Gwili Andre, originally Gurli Andresen aka Gurlie commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 51 in 2109 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, California, United States. Andre surrounded herself in her flat with numerous articles and photographs about the career she expected and set it all alight. Another resident of the building, 83-year-old George Katzenberger, was pulled to safety by two neighbors after he broke a bathroom window.

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(x) 61 years ago Sunday 5th of February 1961 57-year-old Kidnapper and murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer marries Gertrud 'Trudi' Garcia de Quevedo in Adjuntas, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.

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(-) 49 years ago Monday 5th of February 1973 Rosalind Heather Thorpe is shot in the head by serial killer Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer in University of California, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, California, United States. Kemper sexually abused her body and the next morning dismembered it and discarded the remains at Eden Canyon near San Francisco, where it was found with the body of Alice Liu a week later.

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(-) 49 years ago Monday 5th of February 1973 Alice Helen Allison Liu is shot in the head by serial killer Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer in University of California, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, California, United States. Kemper sexually abused her body and the next morning dismembered it and discarded the remains at Eden Canyon near San Francisco, where it was found with the body of Rosalind Thorpe a week later.

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(x) 48 years ago Tuesday 5th of February 1974 34-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Gudrun Ensslin is transferred from Essen in Justizvollzugsanstalt Ossendorf, Rochusstraße 350, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Ensslin is placed in a cell next to Ulrike Meinhof.

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(-) 45 years ago Saturday 5th of February 1977 Irene Richardson is hammered and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Soldiers' Field, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 41 years ago Thursday 5th of February 1981 22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs as 'David Mark Chapman', murderer of John Lennon with Xavier Rathé at 2e Verzameling in Handelsbeurs, Kouter, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 27 years ago Sunday 5th of February 1995 Four gypsies are killed in the seventh bomb attack by 46-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Oberwart, Burgenland, Austria. 40-year-old Josef Simon, 27-year-old Peter Sarközi, 22-year-old Karl and 18-year-old Erwin Horvath were killed by an improvised explosive device which was attached to a sign that read "Roma zurück nach Indien".

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(x) 25 years ago Wednesday 5th of February 1997 73 die in Two Sikorsky S-65C-3 Yas'ur 2000 helicopters mid-air collision in She'ar Yashuv, Northern, Israel.

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(-) 23 years ago Friday 5th of February 1999 Triple murderer Sean Richard Sellers aka The Schoolboy Night Stalker aka The Night Roomer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 5th of February 2004 Devotees of all kind gathering for the Thaipoosam Festive Days at the festival grounds in Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

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(-) 14 years ago Tuesday 5th of February 2008 Spiritual leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, originally Mahesh Prasad Varma dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Maharishi European Research University, Station 24, Vlodrop, Limburg, Netherlands.

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(-) 8 years ago Wednesday 5th of February 2014 Murderess Suzanne Margaret 'Sue' Basso, originally Suzanne Burns is executed by lethal injection at the age of 60 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. In August 1998 Basso was the ringleader of a gang who tortured and beat 59-year-old mentally retarded Louis 'Buddy' Musso to death with baseball bats for his life insurance money.

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(-) 2 years ago Wednesday 5th of February 2020 Actor Kirk Douglas, originally Issur Danielovitch dies of natural causes at the age of 102 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

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