39th year - N° 227 Wednesday, 14 August 2024

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39th year - N° 227 Wednesday, 14 August 2024

14 August / Today's 37 Events:

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(-) 560 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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(+) 282 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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(+) 184 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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(+) 157 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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(+) 148 years ago Monday 14th of August 1876 King of Serbia Alexander I, originally Aleksandar Obrenović is born in Beograd, Beograd, Serbia.

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(+) 136 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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(+) 118 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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(-) 117 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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(+) 114 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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(-) 103 years ago Sunday 14th of August 1921 Black Jerome Whitfield is lynched by hanging and his body riddled with bullets at the age of 25 in Kinston, North Carolina, United States. Whitfield criminally assaulted the 19-year-old wife of Pompie Irving.

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(-) 99 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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(+) 98 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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(-) 88 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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(+) 83 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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(+) 79 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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(+) 74 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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(-) 73 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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(-) 68 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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(x) 66 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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(-) 63 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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(x) 59 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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(-) 59 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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(-) 55 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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(x) 52 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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(-) 44 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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(-) 42 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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(-) 34 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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(-) 30 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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(x) 30 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 by 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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(x) 27 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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(-) 26 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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26 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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(-) 22 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.

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21 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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(x) 19 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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(x) 15 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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12 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 14th of August 2012 A hole in the chest of a realistic sculpture in Museo dei Bronzi Dorati, Pergola, Marche, Italy.

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