(-) 206th Pope Martinus V originally Oddone Colonna, dies at the age of 93 in Rome, Italy.
146 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 February 1867
(-) Murderer Martin W. Bates is executed by hanging in Burlingame, Kansas, USA.
118 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 February 1895
(+) Henri Valéry , an alias used by Marcel Petiot, The Triangular Chamber of Death, is born in Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime, France.
109 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1904
(+) USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
104 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1909
(x) 32-year-old Artist Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes the Futurist Manifesto in the Le Figaro newspaper in Paris, France.
102 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 February 1911
(-) Mass-poisoner John James Hutchinson commits suicide by Prussic acid in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.
101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 February 1912
(+) Writer Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle known for “Planet of the Apes”, is born in Avignon, France.
88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 February 1925
(+) Filmmaker Robert Altman is born in Kansas City, Montana, USA.
87 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1926
(-) Clara Newman is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in San Francisco, California, USA.
86 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 February 1927
(+) Actor Sidney Poitier is born in Miami, Florida, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 February 1941
(-) Lisa Nowak is beaten to death by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 30 in Berlin, Germany.
59 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1954
(+) Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1960
(+) Murderer and son of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, Joey Kallinger is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 February 1962
(x) 40-year-old Astronaut John Herschel Glenn is the first US-astronaut to fly around the earth in Space.
46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 February 1967
(+) Musician Kurt Donald Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 February 1971
(x) 46-year-old Dictator Idi Amin Dada is chosen for president by the army in Uganda.
26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 February 1987
(x) 44-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap behind the CAAMs computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
One person is injured when moving the package.
22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 February 1991
(-) Murderer Lawrence Buxton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
(-) Car designer Ferrucio Elio Arturo Lamborghini dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy.
11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 February 2002
(-) Murderer Robert Frederick Glass dies of a heart attack in Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institute, North Carolina, USA.
He had fulfilled his victim's wish to be tortured and strangled to death.
8 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 February 2005
(-) Writer Hunter Stockton Thompson aka the creator of Gonzo journalism, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 67 in Woody Creek, Colorado, USA.
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun—for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax—This won't hurt."
7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 February 2006
(x) 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, starts "Diggin' for Gordon" at an undisclosed location in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
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