441 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 February 1572
(+) Composer Hans Christoph Haiden is born in Germany.
234 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 February 1779
(-) Explorer Captain James Cook is stabbed and beaten to death by natives at the age of 50 in Hawaï.
Some of his flesh was cut and roasted from the bones.
154 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 February 1859
(x) Oregon becomes the 33rd of the United States in the USA.
112 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 February 1901
(-) Elizabeth Taylor is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, United Kingdom.
101 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 February 1912
(x) Arizona becomes the 48th of the United States in the USA.
100 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 February 1913
(+) Union-leader Jimmy Hoffa is born in Brazil, Indiana, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 February 1929
(x) Gangsters Adam Meyer, Frank Foster, John May, Frank Clark, Al Weinshank and Frank Gusenberg are shot dead in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, arranged by 30-year-old Gangster Al Alphonse Capone in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 February 1942
(x) Greta Hayward is attacked by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, Die in in London, Piccadilly Circus, United Kingdom.
She survived
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 February 1945
(-) Farmer Charles Watson is accused of witchcraft and ritually murdered by driving a pitfork into his chest and a sickle through his throat by persons unknown at the age of 74 in Meon Hill, Lower Quinton, United Kingdom.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 February 1947
(+) Musician Tim Buckley is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 February 1950
(x) 25-year-old Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, marries his first wife, Joan Davies in Wales, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 February 1950
(-) Radio engineer and discoverer of cosmic radio sources Karl Guthe Jansky dies at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 February 1957
(-) Murderer Winfred D. Moore is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 February 1957
(-) Murderer Thomas J. Edwards is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 February 1960
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 12-year-old schoolboy in Grands Vaux, Jersey.
46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 February 1967
(x) Over 150 graves are destroyed by an unidentified maniac who roams Belgian, German and Dutch cemetaries in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 February 1969
(-) Mafia Leader Vito Genovese aka Don Vito, dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Springfield, United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Missouri, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 February 1972
(x) 112 Die in Caravelle crash in Dubai, India.
The plane collided with a mountain.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 February 1974
(-) Writer Pelham ‘Plum’ Grenville Wodehouse dies of a heart attack at the age of 92 in New York, New York, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 February 1974
(-) Isabella Griffiths is stabbed to death by Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, at the age of 84 in Chelsea, 19 Cheyne Walk, United Kingdom.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 February 1977
(-) Multiple murderer and self-styled Nazi Fred Cowan commits suicide by a shot through the head in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 February 1979
(x) Melvin Reynolds confesses to the abduction and murder of Eric Christgen and is sentenced to life-imprisonment, although the murder was committed by 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 February 1981
(-) Julie Reitz is shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 17 in Beaverton, Cherryhill Drive, Oregon, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 February 1986
(-) Sadist murderer Marc Fasquel is shot dead by the police at the age of 37 in Montbequi, France.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 February 1989
(x) 41-year-old Writer Salman Rushdie is condemned to death by Ayatollah Khomeiny for his ‘Satanical Verses’ blasphemy in Teheran, Iran.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 February 1990
(x) 92 Die in Indian Airlines Flight 605 Airbus A-320 crash in Bangalore Airport, India.
19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 February 1994
(-) Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 57 in Rostow, Russia.
17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 February 1996
(x) The Long March 3 rocket is launched in Xichang, Sichuan, China.
The rocket flies off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashes into a rural village.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 February 1997
(x) Serial Killer Ilshyat Kuzikov is arrested on suspicion of killing three of his vodka drinking buddies and eating their internal organs in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The confessed cannibal said he killed his first victim in 1992 after inviting him to his flat for a nightcap. After sating his appetite Kuzikov dismembered his friends and put them in a garbage dump.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 February 1997
(x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, is granted bail after spending two decades behind bars in New Delhi, India.
Desperately trying to avoid extradition to Thailand, he said he would not leave jail until he received his identity papers from the French embassy.
10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 February 2003
(-) The first succesfully cloned sheep Dolly dies of progressive lung disease at the age of 6 in Edinburgh, Roslin Institute, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Her stuffed remains are at the National Museum.
9 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 February 2004
(-) Serial Killer Yang Xinhai is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Hehan, China.
3 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 February 2010
(x) 100 Die in The Station nightclub fire during a concert by Heavy Metal band Great White in West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA.
Over 200 people are injured. The band's guitarist Ty Longly also died in the fire.
1 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 February 2012
(x) 359 Die in Comayagua Prison fire in Honduras.
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