(+) Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, Poland.
288 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1725
(-) Innkeeper Mme Millet dies of spontaneous human combustion in Rheims, France.
133 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 February 1880
(+) General Alvaro Obregon is born in San Angel, Mexico.
115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 February 1898
(+) Sect-leader Lauwrens ‘Lou’ Voorthuyzen aka De Palingboer, is born in the Netherlands.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1924
(+) Actor Lee Marvin is born in New York, New York, USA.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 February 1943
(-) Murderer James C. Rawlins is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 46 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1946
(+) Anti-Nuclear activist Karen Gay Silkwood is born in Longview, Texas, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(-) Murderer Jean Lee is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.
62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(-) Murderer Robert David Clayton is executed by hanging in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.
62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(-) Murderer Norman Andrews is executed by hanging in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.
62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(-) Writer André Gide dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.
62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 February 1951
(+) Triple Murderer Stephen Peter Morin is born in USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1952
(-) Writer Knut Hamsun dies at the age of 92 in Grimstad, Nørholm, Norway.
55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 February 1958
(x) 180 Die in coal-mine explosion in Asanoi, India.
(-) Musician Beny Moré aka El Barbaro Del Ritmo, originally Bartolome Maximilliano, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Havana, Cuba.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 February 1966
(-) Stanislawa S. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Grudkow, Poland.
She survived.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1980
(-) Musician Bon Ronald Belford Scott known from AC/DC, dies of pulmonary aspiration of vomit at the age of 33 in London, United Kingdom.
He was left to sleep in a car at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, South London after he passed out after a night of heavy drinking in the Music Machine club.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 1985
(x) 148 Die in Iberia Boeing crash in Bilbao, Spain.
It collided into a mountain.
24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 February 1989
(+) Daughter of Tex Watson of the Manson Family, Mary Elisabeth Watson is born in Texas, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 February 1999
(-) Murderer Wilford Berry aka The Volunteer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.
He was the first person to be executed in Ohio since 1963.
11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 February 2002
(-) Murderer John W. Byrd is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 February 2009
(x) 49-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Oprichting en Manifest van het Bastardisme" at a literary event in Brussel, Passa Porta, Brabant, Belgium.
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