Monday, February 11, 2013

65 Years Ago Ivan Ended Terrible

478 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1535
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229th Pope Gregorius XIV originally Niccolo Spondrati, is born in Somma, Italy.

363 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 1650
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Philosopher René Descartes dies of pneumonia at the age of 53 in Stockholm, Sweden.

166 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 February 1847
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Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, Ohio, USA.

144 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 February 1869
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Murderer James Whelan is executed by hanging in Ottawa, Canada.
It would be the last public hanging in Canada.

107 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 February 1906
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Murderer Milton Diltwer is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.

86 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 1927
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William Gaffney is abducted from Riker Avenue, Astoria, Queens and strangled, cut to pieces and roasted by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 4 in New York, Brooklyn, 99 Fifteenth St., New York, USA.
The body was dumped in the Bowery Bay.

78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1935
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Musician Gene Vincent originally Vincent Eugene Craddock, is born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1936
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Actor Burt Leon Reynolds is born in Lansing, Michigan, USA.

76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 February 1937
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Child-murderer Albert E. Volckmann is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 1938
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Musician Bobby Boris Pickett aka The Guy Lombardo of Halloween, is born in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.

72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1941
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Martha Zernowski is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.

71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 February 1942
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Margaret Lowe aka Pearl, is strangled and sexually mutilated with a razorblade and candlestick as third victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 43 in London, Marylebone, Gosfield Street, United Kingdom.

66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1947
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Founding Symbionese Liberation Army member Emily Harris originally Emily Montague Schwartz, is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 February 1948
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Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Moscow, Russia.

56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1957
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31-year-old Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, is chosen as leader for the Conservative Party in London, United Kingdom.

39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1974
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Murderer Richard Cartwright is born in Texas, USA.

28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1985
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Filmmaker Henry Hathaway originally Henri Leonard de Fiennes, dies of a heart attack at the age of 86 in Hollywood, California, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1986
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Writer Frank Franklin Patrick Herbert known for “Dune”, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1992
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Murderer Johnny Frank Garrett is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 1994
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Actor William Conrad originally William Cann aka Cannon, dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1997
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Rosemary Downs is strangled by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 43 in Springfield, Massachussets, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 February 1999
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Murderer Danny Lee Barber is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 2000
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Filmmaker Roger Vadim originally Roger Vladimir Piemiannikov, dies of lymphoma at the age of 72 in Paris, France.

9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 February 2004
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Triple murderer Edward Lewis Lagrone is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 February 2006
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Writer Peter Bradford Benchley known for "Jaws", dies of ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 65 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

1 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 February 2012
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Musician Whitney Houston dies at the age of 48 in Beverley Hills, Hilton Hotel, California, USA.

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