(x) Prophet and founder of Islam Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah delivers his Last Sermon aka Khutbatul Wada' in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
596 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 February 1417
(+) 211th Pope Paul II originally Pietro Barbo, is born in Venice, Italy.
566 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1447
(-) 207th Pope Eugenius IV originally Gabriele Condulmer, dies at the age of 109 in Rome, Italy,
328 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1685
(+) Composer Georg Friedrich Handel is born in Halle, Germany.
(-) 5th president of the USA John Quincy Adams dies of a cerebral hemorrhage two days earlier at the age of 80 in Washington, Capitol Building, Speaker's Room, District Columbia, USA.
His last words were "This is the last of earth. I am content."
163 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1850
(+) Hotelier César Ritz is born in Niederwald, Switzerland.
135 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1878
(+) Suprematist artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich is born in Kiev, USSR.
128 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1885
(x) Murderer John Lee aka The Man They Couldn’t Hang, is brought upon the scaffold 3 times to be hanged, but the trapdoor refuses to open upon each attempt. He will at last be repreived in Exeter Jail, United Kingdom.
116 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1897
(-) Celestin Gautrais is stabbed to death by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, in France.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1904
(+) Leader of the ‘Rote Kapelle’ spy-ring Leopold Trepper is born in Nowy Targ, Poland.
107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1906
(-) Murderer of his 24 wives Johan Hoch is executed by hanging in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1924
(-) 28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson dies at the age of 67 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 February 1930
(-) Nazi activist Horst Ludwig Wessel known for “Die Fahne Hoch” aka Das Horst-Wessel-Lied, dies due to injuries after an assault on 14 January 1930 at the age of 22 in Berlin, Germany.
83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 February 1930
(-) Hildegard Eid is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 24 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She survived.
82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1931
(-) Cop Killer ‘Iron’ Irene Schroder aka Tiger Girl, is executed by Old Sparky in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, USA.
She was the first woman to die in the Pennsylvania Electric Chair.
82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1931
(+) Pop artist Tom Wesselmann is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1937
(-) An unidentified woman is hacked to death by The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Lake Erie, East 156th street, Ohio, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 February 1939
(+) Actor Peter Fonda is born in New York, New York, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 1944
(+) Musician Johnny John Dawson III Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 1944
(-) Inventor of Bakelite Leo Hendrik Baekeland dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 80 in Beacon, New York, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1946
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Neville George Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is found whipping an unidentified girl in London, Strand Palace Hotel, United Kingdom.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1965
(-) Actor Stan Laurel originally Arthur Stanley Jefferson, dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 1966
(+) Seventh victim of Bobby Joe Long aka Bound To Die, Virginia Johnson is born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1970
(+) Daughter of Marlon, Cheyenne Tarita Brando is born in Tahiti.
42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 February 1971
(-) An unidentified woman is assaulted by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.
38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 February 1975
(x) 26-year-old Manson Family member Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz, is baptised by Chaplain Sargent Wright in Frontiera, Institution for Women, California, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1976
(x) Start of the first trial against 29-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Salt Lake City, Metropolitan Hall of Justice, Utah, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1981
(x) 48-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina attempts a military coup in Madrid, Spain.
He failed.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 February 1981
(-) Gabriella Bohn is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 February 1985
(x) Over 100 Die in train derailment in Calcutta, India.
23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1990
(x) 30-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Body Art" in Bern, Galerie Lydia Megert, Switzerland.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1996
(-) Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
He was the first man to be executed by lethal injection in California.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 February 1996
(x) Convicted Robber Paul Wilson tries to strangle 49-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, with the flex of a headphone in Broadmoor Hospital, Henley Ward, United Kingdom.
Stockwell Strangler Kenneth Erskine came to rescue Sutcliffe.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 February 2000
(-) Murderer Cornelius Alan Goss is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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