(-) Artist Fra Angelico originally Guido di Pietro, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Italy.
497 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1516
(+) Queen Mary Tudor aka Bloody Mary, is born in Greenwich, United Kingdom.
467 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 1546
(-) Reformer Martin Luther dies of an apoplectic stroke at the age of 62 in Eisleben, Germany.
449 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 February 1564
(-) Artist Buonarotti Michelangelo dies of a stroke at the age of 89 in Rome, Italy.
268 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1745
(+) Physicist Alessandro Guiseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta is born in Como, Italy.
121 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1892
(+) Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, is born in Japan.
117 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 February 1896
(+) Writer André Breton aka The Father of Surrealism, is born in Tinchebray, Orne, France.
110 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 February 1903
(+) USSR-leader Nikolay Viktorovitsch Podgorny is born in Russia.
107 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 February 1906
(+) Pediatrician Hans Asperger is born in Vienna, Austria.
94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 February 1919
(+) Actor Jack Palance originally Volodymyr Palahnyuk, is born in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA.
81 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1932
(+) Filmmaker Milos Jan Tomá Forman is born in áslav, Czechoslowakia.
(+) Artist Yoko Ono is born in Tokyo, Japan.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1949
(-) Olive Durand-Deacon is shot dead and dumped in sulphuric acid by John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, at the age of 69 in Crawley, Leopold Road, Sussex, United Kingdom.
59 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1954
(+) Actor John Travolta is born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 February 1956
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Horst Ludwig Meyer is born in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 February 1961
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 12-year-old boy in Mont Cochon, Jersey.
50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 1963
(-) Gertrude Gruen is attacked and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
She survived.
46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 February 1967
(-) Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Julius Oppenheimer dies of throat cancer at the age of 62 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1972
(x) The California Supreme Court vote 6 to 1 to abolish the Death Penalty in California, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1972
(x) 26-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden starts his performance "Bed Piece" in Venice, Market Street, California, USA.
It lasted until 10 march 1972.
40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 February 1973
(x) An ultra-right commando steals the coffin of Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain and re-buries it near the Battlefield in Verdun, France.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 February 1982
(-) Detective-writer Ngaio Edith Marsh dies at the age of 86 in New Zealand.
30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 February 1983
(x) Fourteen people are gunned down during a robbery by Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng in Seattle, Wah Mee Club, Washington, USA.
Only Wai Y. Chin survived the massacre and later testified in court against the three robbers.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 1991
(-) Curtis Straughter is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 1991
(x) Two IRA bombs explode in London, Paddington and Victoria stations, United Kingdom.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 February 1997
(-) Joyce Dickerson is strangled by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 37 in Springfield, downtown, Massachussets, USA.
12 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 February 2001
(-) Artist Balthasar de Rola Klossowski aka Balthus, dies at the age of 93 in Rossinière, Switzerland.
5 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 February 2008
(-) Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet dies of heart failure at the age of 85 in Caen, France.
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