Thursday, February 29, 2024

39th year - N° 60 Thursday, 29 February 2024

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39th year - N° 60 Thursday, 29 February 2024

29 February / Today's 8 Events:
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556 years ago

Saturday 29th of February 1468

220th Pope Paulus III, originally Alessandro Farnese is born in Canino, Lazio, Italy.


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232 years ago

Wednesday 29th of February 1792

Composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini is born in Pesaro, Marche, Italy.


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160 years ago

Monday 29th of February 1864

Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli is born in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.


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116 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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68 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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68 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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64 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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28 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.


Wednesday, February 28, 2024

39th year - N° 59 Wednesday, 28 February 2024

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39th year - N° 59 Wednesday, 28 February 2024

28 February / Today's 22 Events:
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1538 years ago

Thursday 28th of February 0486

46th Pope Hilarius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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159 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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144 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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118 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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112 years ago

Wednesday 28th of February 1912

Mistress of Benito Mussolini Clara Claretta Petacci is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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82 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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77 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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74 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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68 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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67 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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64 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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64 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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53 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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50 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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44 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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38 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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36 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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32 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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27 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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27 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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22 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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11 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.


Tuesday, February 27, 2024

39th year - N° 58 Tuesday, 27 February 2024

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39th year - N° 58 Tuesday, 27 February 2024

27 February / Today's 26 Events:
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294 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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170 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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163 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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137 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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122 years ago

Thursday 27th of February 1902

Writer John Ernst Steinbeck is born in Salinas, California, United States.


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111 years ago

Thursday 27th of February 1913

Philosopher Paul Jean Gustave Ricœur is born in Valence, Drôme, France.


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111 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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94 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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92 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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91 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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88 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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77 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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69 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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66 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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56 years ago

Tuesday 27th of February 1968

Murderess Lisa Marie Montgomery is born in Melvern, Kansas, United States.


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54 years ago

Friday 27th of February 1970

32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 32. Aktion 7. Abreaktionsspiel in Aktionsraum 1, Waltherstraße 25, München, Bayern, Germany.


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51 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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49 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 BeckerGabriele 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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40 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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32 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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28 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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20 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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20 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.



19 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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17 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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9 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.