(-) Aristocrat Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General, dies at the age of 56 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
246 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 February 1767
(-) Murderer Patrick Redmond is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
After 28 minutes he was declared dead, he was taken down and revived after 6 hours by the use of bronchotomy.
227 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 1786
(+) Philologist and folklorist Wilhelm Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany.
138 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1875
(x) 102 Die in SS Gothenburg shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia.
91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 1922
(+) Pop Art pioneer Richard Hamilton is born in London, Pimlico, United Kingdom.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 1939
(-) Murderer Franklin Pierce McCall is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Florida, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1949
(+) Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is born in Arizona, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1949
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion “Bewegung 2. Juni” member Thomas Weisbecker is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 February 1953
(-) Parenticider Miles Giffard is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Bristol, United Kingdom.
(-) War leader Gerd Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt dies at the age of 77 in Hannover, Germany.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1954
(+) Musician Roger Marie François Jouret aka Plastic Bertrand, is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
58 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1955
(+) Spree Killer Woo Bum-kon is born in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 1956
(-) Sex-murderer Arthur Ross Brown is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Prison, Missouri, USA.
53 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1960
(-) Murderer Earl Steward is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 41 in Nevada, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 February 1969
(x) 17-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, escapes from reformatory school to the Netherlands in Ruiselede, Antwerp, Belgium.
41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1972
(x) 98 Die in department-store fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 1972
(-) Frank Aguirre is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 19 in Houston, Texas, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 February 1973
(x) 20-year-old Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, Toni Antoinette Denise White, James Cyril Cendrillon and Alphons Joseph Klimek in Hampton, United Kingdom.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 February 1987
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin his father Ben commits suicide by a pain-killer overdose in New York, New York, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1999
(-) Murderer Karl Hinze LaGrand is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 1999
(-) Murderer Norman Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 February 2000
(-) Double murderess Betty Lou Beets is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
She had been convicted of shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on August 6, 1983. Also found buried in a garage were the remains of Doyle Wayne Barker, another husband of her.
7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 February 2006
(-) Actor Dennis Weaver dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Ridgway, Colorado, USA.
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 February 2010
(x) 27-year-old Juvenile murderer Jon Venables is arrested on allegations of possessing child pornography in United Kingdom.
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