(-) Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is executed by beheading at the age of 44 in Fotheringhay Castle, Scotland, United Kingdom.
It took three blows to separate her head.
288 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 February 1725
(-) Ruler Peter the Great originally Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov, dies of an inflammation of the bladder at the age of 52 in Lakhta, Russia.
205 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 February 1808
(-) Murderer Edward Donnelly is executed by hanging in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.
(+) Science-Fiction writer Jules Gabriel Verne is born in Nantes, France.
179 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 February 1834
(+) Scientist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev is born in Verhnie Aremzyani, Russia.
141 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 February 1872
(+) Philosopher Theodor Lessing is born in Hannover, Germany.
119 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 February 1894
(+) Filmmaker King Wallis Vidor is born in Galveston, Texas, USA.
92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 February 1921
(+) Actress Lana Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner is born in Wallace, Idaho, USA.
92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 February 1921
(-) Anarchist Peter Alekseyewitsch Kropotkin aka The Anarchist Prince, dies at the age of 78 in Dmitrov, Russia.
90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 February 1923
(x) 120 Die in coal-mine explosion in Dawson, Mexico.
89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 February 1924
(-) Wife-murderer Gee Jon is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 29 in Carson City, State Prison, Nevada, USA.
He was the first man to be executed by the Gas Chamber.
89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 February 1924
(-) Hermann Speichert is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Germany.
88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 February 1925
(+) Actor Jack John Uhler Lemmon is born in Newton, Massachussets, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 February 1929
(-) Child-Rose Ohilger is strangled and stabbed to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 8 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 February 1931
(+) Actor James Byron Dean known from “Rebel Without a Cause”, is born in Marion, Indiana, USA.
73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 February 1940
(+) Actor Nick Nolte is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 February 1942
(+) Producer and shaper of Californian Surf Sound Terry Melcher is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He’s the son of Doris Day and one of Charles Manson’s enemies.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 February 1942
(-) Founder of the Organisation Todt Fritz Todt is killed in a planecrash at the age of 50 in Rastenburg, Germany.
65 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 February 1948
(+) Cop Killer Lynda Lyon Block is born in Orlando, Florida, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 February 1955
(-) Irmgard Strehl is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 19 in Herrenstein, Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 February 1961
(-) Murderer Georges Riley is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Shrewsbury Prison, United Kingdom.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 February 1977
(-) Irene Richardson is hammered, stabbed and her throat cut by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 28 in Leeds, Roundhay, Soldiers Field, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 February 1980
(-) Greek Folk-legend Nikos Xilouris dies of a brain tumour at the age of 43 in Greece.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 February 1989
(x) 144 Die in Independent Air Boeing 707 collision in Santa Maria Island, off Portugal.
It crashed into a mountain.
23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 February 1990
(-) Singer-songwriter Del Shannon originally Charles Wedon Westover, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 55 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 February 1997
(x) 24-year-old Mass Murderer Stephen Anderson goes berserk in a ski resort, killing six people and wounding five others before he was arrested naked and unarmed by authorities who tracked him through the rugged forest with the help of planes and helicopters in Raurimu, New Zealand.
14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 February 1999
(-) Writer Iris Murdoch dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 79 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 February 2001
(-) Murderer Adolph Gil Hernandez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 February 2006
(-) Murderer Robert James Jr. Neville is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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