40th year - N° 32 Saturday, 1 February 2025

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40th year - N° 32 Saturday, 1 February 2025

1 February / Today's 41 Events:

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(-) 334 years ago Thursday 1st of February 1691 241st Pope Alexander VIII, originally Pietro Vito Ottoboni dies of natural causes at the age of 81 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 174 years ago Saturday 1st of February 1851 Writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, originally Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin known her novel Frankenstein dies of a brain tumour at the age of 54 in Chester Square, Belgravia, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 153 years ago Thursday 1st of February 1872 Mass murderer Andrew Philip Kehoe is born in Tecumseh, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 151 years ago Sunday 1st of February 1874 Poet and writer Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal is born in Salesianergasse 12, Landstraße, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 132 years ago Wednesday 1st of February 1893 Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See is born in Spandau, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 130 years ago Friday 1st of February 1895 Film director John Ford, originally John Martin 'Jack' Feeney is born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, United States.

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(+) 124 years ago He Was Mistaken for a Female Friday 1st of February 1901 Actor Clark William Gable aka The King of Hollywood is born in Cádiz, Ohio, United States. Gable was mistakenly listed as a female on his birth certificate.

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(-) 117 years ago Saturday 1st of February 1908 King Carlos I of Portugal aka o Diplomata aka o Martirizado and his son Prince Luis are shot dead by revolutionary republicans Alfredo Costa and Manual Buiça at the age of 45 in Praça do Comércio, Lisboa, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Portugal. The assassins were shot dead by the King's bodyguards. An innocent bystander was also killed in the confusion.

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(+) 117 years ago Saturday 1st of February 1908 Kidnapper and child murderer William Edward Hickman aka The Fox known for the murder of Marion Parker is born in Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States.

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(-) 103 years ago Wednesday 1st of February 1922 Actor and film director William Desmond Taylor, originally William Cunningham Deane-Tanner is shot dead by persons unknown at the age of 50 in Alvarado Court Apartments, 404-B South Alvarado Street, Westlake, Los Angeles, California, United States. More than a dozen individuals were eventually named as suspects by both the press and the police. Newspaper reports at the time were both overwhelmingly sensationalised and speculative, even fabricated, and the murder was used as the basis for much subsequent 'true crime' fiction. Suspects included Taylor's valet and cook Edward F. Sands, valet Henry Peavey who found Taylor's body, actress and Taylor's lover Mabel N ormand, neighbour Faith Cole MacLean who might have mistaken Taylor for a burglar, general manager of Paramount Pictures Charles Eyton, child star and teen screen idol Mary Miles Minter, Minter's mother Charlotte Shelby and film actress Margaret Gibson. Gibson reportedly confessed to murdering Taylor shortly before she died in 1964.

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(-) 96 years ago Friday 1st of February 1929 Murderess Ada Bonner LeBoeuf is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in St. Mary Parish jail, Franklin, Louisiana, United States. LeBoeuf was hanged side to side with her lover Dr. Tom Dreher. LeBoeuf was the first white woman to be hanged in Louisiana.

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(+) 94 years ago Sunday 1st of February 1931 First President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is born in Butka, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 92 years ago Wednesday 1st of February 1933 Luxury call girl Rosemarie Rosalie Marie Auguste Nitribitt is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 90 years ago He Was Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Hang Friday 1st of February 1935 Double murderer Kenneth Louis Neu is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in . While awaiting execution Neu sang in his cell and composed a verse 'I'm fit as a fiddle and ready to hang'.

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(+) 88 years ago Monday 1st of February 1937 Singer-songwriter Don Isaac Donald Everly known from The Everly Brothers is born in Brownie, Kentucky, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago Il ne Connaissait pas Alexandrie ni Alexandra Wednesday 1st of February 1939 Musician Claude Antoine Marie François aka Cloclo is born in Ismaïlia, Al Isma'iliyah, Egypt.

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(-) 81 years ago Tuesday 1st of February 1944 Painter Piet Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan dies of pneumonia at the age of 72 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 80 years ago Thursday 1st of February 1945 96 pilgrims die in Mexico City-San Juan de Los Lagos extra passenger train collision in Cazadero, Queretaro, .

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(-) 66 years ago She Felt Better Sunday 1st of February 1959 August Norry is shot dead by murderess Penny Bjorkland in San Bruno Mountains, San Francisco, California, United States. "Just to see if I could do it and not worry about it and I've felt better since I killed him."

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(x) 62 years ago Friday 1st of February 1963 95 die in Middle East Airlines Vickers 754D Viscount Flight 265 and Turkish Air Force C-47 collision in Ankara, Anatolia, Turkey. There were 87 casualties on the ground.

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(-) 61 years ago Saturday 1st of February 1964 Serial killer Vladimir Ionesyan aka Mosgaz aka Iwan the Axeman is executed by the firing squad at the age of 27 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(-) 59 years ago Tuesday 1st of February 1966 Actor, film director and stunt performer Buster Joseph Frank Keaton aka The Great Stone Face dies of lung cancer at the age of 71 in Woodland Hills, California, United States.

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(x) 58 years ago Wednesday 1st of February 1967 47-year-old Serial killer Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice is arrested in Katowice, Województwo Katowice, Poland.

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(+) 57 years ago Thursday 1st of February 1968 Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley is born in Baptist Memorial Hospital, 6019 Walnut Grove Road, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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(x) 55 years ago Sunday 1st of February 1970 236 die in express and local train collision in Benavídez station, Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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(x) 51 years ago Friday 1st of February 1974 188 die in Joelma Building fire in Joelma Building, 225 Avenue Nove de Julho, São Paulo, Região Sudeste, Brazil. 40 individuals jumped to escape the conditions inside and in failed attempts to grasp unreachable fire ladders. None of these jumpers survived.

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(x) 51 years ago Friday 1st of February 1974 45-year-old Great Train Robber Ronnie Ronald Arthur Biggs is arrested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biggs could not be extradited because his girlfriend, nightclub dancer Raimunda de Castro, was pregnant.

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(-) 51 years ago Friday 1st of February 1974 Linda Ann Healy is abducted, raped and beaten to death by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in 5517 NE 12th Street, Seattle, Washington, United States. Healy was Bundy's first deadly victim, her skull and mandible were recovered at a Taylor Mountain dump site.

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(x) 47 years ago Wednesday 1st of February 1978 45-year-old Film director Roman Polanski, originally Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański skips bail and flees the country after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer during a photo shoot for French Vogue magazine in March 1977 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 46 years ago Thursday 1st of February 1979 25-year-old Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst is granted an official clemency order by President Carter and released in Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, California, United States.

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(-) 44 years ago Sunday 1st of February 1981 Aircraft designer and manufacturer Donald Wills Douglas dies of unknown causes at the age of 89 in Palm Springs, California, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Wednesday 1st of February 1984 Willi Fleischer is beaten to death by serial killer Kurt-Friedhelm Steinwegs aka Die Bestie vom Niederrhein in Süchteln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Steinwegs cut off Fleischer's penis; "Ich habe denen den elften Finger abgeschnitten, weil ich wissen wollte, wie das Ding funktioniert, wie das Pipi da rauskommt".

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(-) 40 years ago Friday 1st of February 1985 Manager Ernst Zimmermann is shot in the head by two members of Die Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 56 in Gauting, Bayern, Germany. The assassination was carried out in the name of Kommando Patsy O'Hara.

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(x) 34 years ago Friday 1st of February 1991 46-year-old Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer is sentenced to 10 consecutive terms of 25 years to life in Rochester, New York, United States.

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(-) 23 years ago Friday 1st of February 2002 Actress and singer Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef dies of lung cancer and pneumonia at the age of 77 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 21 years ago Sunday 1st of February 2004 36-year-old Serial killer Yang Xinhai aka The Monster Killer is found guilty of 67 murders and 23 rapes and sentenced to death by the City Intermediate People's Court in Luohe, Henan, China.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 1st of February 2004 A closed door in Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 17 years ago Friday 1st of February 2008 Double murderer Masahiko Matsubara is executed by hanging at the age of 63 in Osaka, Kinki, Japan.

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(-) 17 years ago Friday 1st of February 2008 Murderer Takashi Mochida is executed by hanging at the age of 65 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(-) 17 years ago Friday 1st of February 2008 Double murderer Keishi Nago is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Fukuoka Detention Center, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.

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(x) 15 years ago Monday 1st of February 2010 119 die in Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 Flight 956 crash in Khorramabad, Lorestan, Iran.

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