(+) Racketeer Bugsy Benjamin Siegel is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
101 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 February 1912
(+) Mistress of Il Duce Benito Mussolini Clara Claretta Petacci is born in Rome, Italy.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 February 1942
(+) Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkin Jones is born in Cheltenham, Park Nursing Home, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1947
(x) Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising in Taiwan.
Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.
63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 February 1950
(+) IRA member Francis Hughes originally Proinsias O hAodha, is born in Bellaghy, Londonderry, Ireland.
57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 February 1956
(-) Robber, murderer, cop killer and Public Enemy Nº 1 Emile Buisson aka Mimile, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 53 in Paris, France.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 February 1957
(-) Murderer Leonardo Salemi is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1958
(x) 26 children Die in school bus and wrecker truck collision in Floyd County, Levisa Fork River, Kentucky, USA.
It's the worst bus accident in the USA.
53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 February 1960
(+) Serial Killer Richard ‘Ricky’ Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is born in El Paso, Texas, USA.
53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 February 1960
(+) Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 February 1971
(x) 31-year-old Performance artist Vito Acconci performs "Security Zone" with Lee Jaffe in New York, Pier 18, New York, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 February 1974
(x) Picasso’s “Guernica” is sprayed over with the text “Kill Lies All” by art-gallery-owner Tony Shafrazi in New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 February 1985
(x) Nine officers die in a mortar attack by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station in Newry, Ireland.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1986
(-) Prime-minister Olof Palme is shot dead at the age of 59 in Stockholm, Sveavägen, Sweden.
The crime remains unsolved and has been a national trauma.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 February 1987
(x) 56-year-old Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is arrested and charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
(x) 25-year-old Psychopatic killer Roberto Succo aka ‘André’, is arrested in Mestre, Treviso, Italy.
21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1992
(-) Double Murderer David Clark is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1997
(-) Bankrobber Larry Eugene Jr. Phillips commits suicide after being shot in the hand during a shootout with patrol and SWAT officers after leaving the Bank of America he had just robbed at the age of 26 in North Hollywood, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, California, USA.
Ten officers and seven civilians suffered injuries.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 February 1997
(x) 30-year-old Bankrobber Emil Decebal Mătăsăreanu is shot dead in a shootout with patrol and SWAT officers after leaving the Bank of America he had just robbed in North Hollywood, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, California, USA.
Ten officers and seven civilians suffered injuries.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 February 2002
(-) Murderer Monty Allen Delk is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 February 2005
(x) 127 Die in a suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq.
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