Monday, February 4, 2013

30 Years Ago Cachexia Skipped a Syrupy Heartbeat

1305 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 February 708
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87th Pope Sisinnius dies of gout in Rome, Italy.

133 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 February 1880
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69-year-old James, Johannah, Thomas, Bridget and John Donelly are killed with clubs, spades and gunfire by the ‘Whiteboys’ Northern Division of the Ku Klux Klan in Lucan, Ontario, Canada.

132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 February 1881
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Artist Fernand Joseph Henri Léger is born in Argentan, France.

119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 February 1894
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Designer and musician Adolphe Sax dies at the age of 79 in Paris, France.

113 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 February 1900
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Writer Jacques Prévert is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France.

111 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 February 1902
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Aviation pioneer Charles Augustus Lindbergh aka The Lone Eagle, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

106 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 February 1907
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Wilhelm Erdner is born in Gehrden, Germany.

105 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 February 1908
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Actress Gwili Andre originally Gurli Andresen, is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.

101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 February 1912
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Tailor and parachute pioneer Franz Reichelt aka The Birdman, dies at the age of 33 in Paris, France.
He jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a self-designed parachute, which didn't work.

98 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 February 1915
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Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, is born in Freiwaldau, Silesia, Austria.

92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 February 1921
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Rapist and murderer Jack Alfred Field is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 February 1921
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Rapist and murderer William Thomas Gray is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 February 1928
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Child-abductor and murderer William Hickman aka The Fox, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in San Quentin, California, USA.

73 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 February 1940
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Filmmaker George Andrew Romero aka The Grandfather of the Zombie, is born in New York, New York, USA.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 February 1948
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Musician Alice Cooper is born in Detroit, Allen Park, Michigan, USA.

47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 February 1966
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133 Die in All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 crash in Tokyo Bay, Japan.

43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 February 1970
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236 Die in train collision in Buenos Aires, Brazil.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 February 1972
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Yvonne Weber is abducted and presumably killed by Zodiac at the age of 12 in Santa Rosa, Redwood Ice-Skating Rink, California, USA.
Her skeletonised body was found 10 months later.

39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 February 1974
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19-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in Berkeley, California, USA.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 February 1983
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Musician Karen Anne Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa and an Icepac overdose at the age of 32 in Downey, California, USA.

29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 February 1984
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Anneliese Schreiner is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 20 in Bremen, Germany.
She survived.

27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 February 1986
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John Jordan is presumably strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 57 in Brixton, London, Josephine Avenue, United Kingdom.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 February 1987
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Entertainer and musician Wladziu Valentino Liberace dies of AIDS at the age of 67 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 February 1995
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Four gypsies are killed in the seventh bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Oberwarth, Austria.
The gypsies tried to remove a racist poster near their camp.

18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 February 1995
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Writer Patricia Highsmith dies of leukemia at the age of 74 in Locarno, Switzerland.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 February 1997
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54-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is given notice that she will never leave prison during her life in the United Kingdom.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 February 1999
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Satan Worshiper and Triple Murderer Sean Sellers aka Web of Darkness, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 February 1999
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Murderer Darrick Leonard Gerlaugh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 February 1999
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Cannibal Dorangel Vargas aka The Hannibal Lecter of the Andes, is arrested on charges of cannibalism in Caracas, Venezuela.

12 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 February 2001
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Composer Iannis Xenakis dies at the age of 78 in Paris, France.

6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 February 2007
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Murderer John William Elliott is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

4 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 February 2009
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Musician Lux Interior originally Erick Lee Purkhiser, dies of aortic dissection at the age of 62 in Glendale, California, USA.

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