(-) Printer Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg dies at the age of 70 in Mainz, Germany.
204 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 February 1809
(+) Composer Felix Jakob Ludwig Mendelssohn is born in Hamburg, Germany.
154 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 February 1859
(+) Airplane engineer Hugo Junkers is born in Rheydt, Germany.
139 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 February 1874
(+) Writer Gertrude Stein is born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.
126 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 February 1887
(+) Writer Georg Trakl is born in Salzburg, Austria.
124 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1889
(+) Filmmaker Theodor Carl Dreyer is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
124 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1889
(-) Outlaw Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr aka Belle Starr, dies of shotgun wounds to the back and neck and in the shoulder and face at the age of 41 in Eufaula, Oklahoma, USA.
She was ambushed by an unknown assailant on the way home from a friend.
110 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 February 1903
(-) Child Murderess Annie Walters aka The Finchley Baby Farmer, is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.
109 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 February 1904
(+) Gangster Charles Arthur Floyd aka Pretty Boy, is born in Adairsville, Georgia, USA.
104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 February 1909
(+) Philosopher Simone Weil is born in Paris, France.
102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 February 1911
(x) Mass-poisoner John James Hutchinson serves poison at his parents’ 25th wedding anniversary, killing his father and 2 other relatives in Dalkeith, United Kingdom.
86 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 February 1927
(+) Filmmaker Kenneth Anger originally Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer, is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1929
(-) Hypnotist and murderer Joseph Clarke is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1929
(-) Apollonia Kuhn is attacked with scissors by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She survived.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1929
(+) Revolutionary priest Camilo Torres Restrepo is born in Bogota, Colombia.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1935
(-) Airplane engineer Hugo Junkers dies at the age of 76 in Gauting, Germany.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1957
(+) Musician Steven Peter Stapleton aka Nurse With Wound, is born in London, Finchley, United Kingdom.
55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 February 1958
(-) Musician Buddy Holly dies in a ‘Beechcraft Bonanza’ airplane crash at the age of 21 in Mason, Iowa, USA.
The whole ‘Big Bopper Band’ is wiped out.
55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 February 1958
(-) Musician Ritchie Valens originally Richard Steven Valenzuela known for “La Bamba”, dies in a ‘Beechcraft Bonanza’ airplane crash at the age of 16 in Mason, Iowa, USA.
46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 February 1967
(-) Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Coburg, Pentridge Prison, Victoria, Australia.
He was the last man to be hanged in Australia.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 February 1971
(-) Unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 February 1975
(-) Musician Umm Kulthum aka The Nightingale of the Nile, dies at the age of 76 in Caïro, Egypt.
33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1980
(-) Charles Miranda is sodomised and garotted with his shirt by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 15 in West Hollywood, California, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1980
(-) James McCabe is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 12 in Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 February 1981
(-) Marie Sloane is sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 46 in Redding, Burger Express, California, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 February 1981
(-) Donna Lee Eckard is sexually assaulted and shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 37 in Mountain Gate, Holiday Road, California, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 February 1985
(-) Scientist Frank Oppenheimer dies of lung cancer at the age of 72 in Sausalito, California, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 February 1989
(-) Filmmaker John Nicholas Cassavetes dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 59 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 February 1993
(-) Composer Karel Goeyvaerts dies at the age of 69 in Antwerpen, Belgium.
(-) Multiple Murderess Karla Faye Tucker aka The Pick Axe Murderess, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
She was the first woman to be executed in Texas since the American Civil War.
15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 February 1998
(-) Loretta Daniels is asphyxiated by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 38 in Springfield, State Street near Mason Square Post Office, Massachussets, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 February 2003
(x) 62-year-old Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, is arrested on suspicion of murder when the body of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and B movie-actress Lana Clarkson is found at his mansion in Alhambra, California, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 February 2004
(-) Murderer John Glenn Roe is executed by lethal injection in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 February 2010
(x) 12 Die in IRA incendiary bomb attack in Belfast, La Mon Restaurant, Ireland.
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