(+) Scientist Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, Italy.
136 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 February 1877
(+) Automobile pioneer Louis Renault is born in Paris, France.
104 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1909
(x) Over 250 Die in Flores Theatre fire in Acapulco, Mexico.
84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 February 1929
(+) World Champion Formule 1 Racing, Graham Hill is born in London, Hampstead, United Kingdom.
81 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1932
(-) Mary Ellen O’Connor is presumably abducted, killed and eaten by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 16 in New York, Manhattan, New York, USA.
80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1933
(x) Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak is fatally shot by Joseph Zangara in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Zangara actually tried to kill the 32nd president of the USA, Franklin Roosevelt. Cermak died three weeks later.
74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1939
(+) Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is born in Esterville, Coleman Hospital, Iowa, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 February 1942
(x) Capitulation of Singapore in WWII, 138.000 British and Australian soldiers are taken as prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in Singapore.
59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1954
(-) Annie Hamann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.
In view of the events, the German radio warns the public for the danger of buying poisoned sweets.
53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1960
(-) Murderer Fernat Bournani kills 2 cops and is lynched by the public at the age of 28 in Paris, rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, France.
52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1961
(x) 73 Die in Sabena Flight 548 Boeing 707 crash in Berg, Brabant, Belgium.
Among the victims were the entire US figure skating association.
(-) Murderer Robert Griffin is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1965
(-) Musician Nat ‘King’ Cole dies of lung cancer at the age of 45 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 February 1966
(-) Revolutionary priest Camilo Torres Restrepo is shot dead by a military patrol at the age of 37 in El Carmen, Colombia.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 February 1970
(x) 102 Die in Dominican DC-9 crash during takeoff from Santo Domingo in the Carribean Sea.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 February 1974
(x) 55-year-old Writer Alexander Isaewitsch Solzhenitsyn is banned from the USSR in Moscow, Russia.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 February 1974
(-) Donald Skepper is shot dead by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, in Lancashire, United Kingdom.
35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1978
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is arrested ‘trying to evade a police-officer’ in Pensacola, Florida, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 February 1982
(x) 84 Die in Ocean Ranger drilling rig sinking during a storm in Newfoundland.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 February 1983
(x) 40-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is stabbed in the upper left arm and back by fellow inmate and multiple murderer Henry Brisbon in Menard Correctional Centre, Illinois, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 1984
(-) US-Diplomat Leamon Hunt is shot dead by Red Brigades in Rome, Italy.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 February 2006
(-) Murderer Clyde Jr. Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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