(+) 245th Pope Benedictus XIII originally Pietro Francesco Orsini, is born in Gravina, Puglio, Italy.
281 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1732
(+) 1st president of the USA George Washington is born in Bridges Creek, Virginia, USA.
225 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1788
(+) Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is born in Sztutowo, Poland.
216 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1797
(-) Adventurer and outrageous tale teller Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen dies at the age of 76 in Bodenwerder, Germany.
206 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1807
(-) Murderer John Holloway is executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.
206 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1807
(-) Murderer Owen Haggerty is executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.
206 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1807
(-) Murderess Elisabeth Godfrey is executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.
129 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1884
(+) Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer William Buehler Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York, is born in Westminster, Maryland, USA.
117 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 February 1896
(+) Poet Paul Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
114 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1899
(+) Actor in many Universal horror movies Dwight Iliff Fry is born in Salina, Kansas, USA.
113 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 February 1900
(+) Filmmaker Luis Bunuel aka Le Chien Andalou, is born in Calanda, Spain.
98 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1915
(x) 70-year-old Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt has her right leg amputated in the United Kingdom.
92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 February 1921
(+) Military Ruler Jean Bédel Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa is born in Bobangi, Moyen-Congo.
85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1928
(+) Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths Clarence 13X originally Clarence Smith aka The Father, is born in Danville, Virginia, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1937
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, is considered mentally sick and sent to psychiatric care for life in Västerås, Sweden.
The other gang members, Eric Hedström, Roland Abrahamsson, Herbert Jansson and Åke Lindberg were sentenced to life imprisonment.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1942
(-) Writer Stefan Zweig commits suicide by an overdose of Veronal at the age of 60 in Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Brazil.
His girlfriend Lotte joins him in death.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1942
(x) The first ‘low-pressure’ experiments are carried out on prisoners of war by 61-year-old Nazi-doctor and aeronautic experimentor Hans August Rascher in Dachau-KZ, Germany.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1942
(+) Model and showgirl Christine Keeler known from the Profumo Affair, is born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1943
(-) Leader of The White Rose resistance group Sophie Magdalene Scholl is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in München, Stadelheim Prison, Germany.
Her brother Hans and their friend Christoph Probst were also executed, convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich.
69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 February 1944
(+) Filmmaker Jonathan Demme is born in Baldwin, New York, USA.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1950
(+) Musician Genesis P-Orridge is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1950
(+) Actress Sylvette Herry aka Miou-Miou, is born in Paris, France.
61 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1952
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Werner Lotze is born in Mühlheim-an-den-Ruhr, Germany.
(+) National Hero Romas Kalanta aka The Young Man with the Mesmerizing Eyes, is born in Kaunas, Lithuania.
53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 February 1960
(x) 123 Die in coal-mine explosion in Zwickau, Germany.
45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 February 1968
(-) Patricia Docker is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 25 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 February 1973
(x) Over 200 Die in ferry and freighter collision in Rangoon, Birma.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1974
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with public indecency in Portland, Oregon, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 February 1974
(-) Would-be Assassin of President Richard Nixon Samuel Joseph Byck commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 44 in Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Maryland, USA.
He attempted to hijack the Delta Air Lines Flight 523 DC-9 to Atlanta and crash it into the White House. Two people died in a shootout before he shot himself.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 February 1984
(-) Marta Rjabenko is stabbed to death and her nipples and uterus cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1987
(-) Artist and filmmaker Andy Andrew Warhol aka The Pope of Pop, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in New York, New York, USA.
He died in his sleep after recovering from a gall-operation.
15 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 February 1998
(-) Serial Killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, dies of cardiac arrest due to a fatal combination of drugs at the age of 73 in Florence, Italy.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 February 2007
(-) Double murderer Newton Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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