458 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 February 1555
(-) Bishop John Hooper aka Johan Hoper, is executed by burning at the stake in Gloucester, United Kingdom.
396 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 February 1617
(-) Composer Hans Christoph Haiden dies at the age of 45 in Germany.
242 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 February 1771
(+) Farmer, mechanic and composer Daniel Belknap is born in Framingham, Massachussets, USA.
240 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 February 1773
(+) 9th president of the USA William Henry Harrison is born in Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia, USA.
132 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 February 1881
(-) Writer Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 59 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
128 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 February 1885
(+) Composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg is born in Vienna, Austria.
111 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 February 1902
(+) Nazi Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink originally Gertrud Emma Treusch, is born in Aldesheim, Germany.
100 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 February 1913
(-) Black murderer Dand Rucker is lynched by burning in Houston, Texas, USA.
82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 February 1931
(+) Writer Thomas Bernhard is born in Heerlen, the Netherlands.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 February 1932
(-) Murderer Major Johnson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 February 1932
(+) Artist Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 February 1942
(-) Evelyn Hamilton is strangled as first victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 40 in London, Montagu Place air raid shelter, United Kingdom.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 February 1945
(+) Actress Mia Farrow is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 February 1963
(-) Military overtaker of King Feisal II General Quassim is executed in Iraq.
50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 February 1963
(+) Actress Lolo Ferrari originally Eve Valois aka The Woman with the Largest Breasts in the World, is born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France.
45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 February 1968
(x) 46-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs "Eurasienstab 82 min Fluxorium Organum" in Antwerpen, Wide Whide Space Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 February 1972
(x) 26-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "T.V. Hijack" on Channel 3 Cablevision in Irvine, California, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 February 1977
(-) Engineer and aircraft designer Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin dies at the age of 82 in Moscow, Russia.
35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 February 1978
(-) Kimberley Leach is bludgeoned to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 12 in Jacksonville, Lake City, Florida, USA.
35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 February 1978
(-) Head of the SS in Rome Herbert Kappler dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Soltau, Germany.
He escaped from prison 10 months earlier.
34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 February 1979
(-) Helena L. is shot through the head by Freddy Horion aka Beatle, in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.
33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 February 1980
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, marries Carole Boone in Orlando, Courthouse, Florida, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 February 1981
(-) Musician Bill Haley dies of a brain tumour at the age of 55 in Harlingen, Texas, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 February 1983
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is arrested after neighbours complained about a blocked drain in 23 Cranley Gardens in London, Muswell Hill, United Kingdom.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 February 1984
(-) Soviet leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov dies of a bad cold at the age of 69 in Moscow, Russia.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 February 1996
(-) Double Murderer Leo Jenkins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 February 1998
(-) Triple murderer Steven Renfro is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 February 1999
(-) Double murderer Jaturun Siripongs is executed by lethal injection in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
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