Saturday, February 16, 2013

90 Years Ago Tutankhamun Saw the Light

243 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1770
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Porter Zaro Agha is born in Turkey.
He became the oldest man in the world and died at the age of 164.

165 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 February 1848
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Writer Octave Mirbeau is born in Trévières, France.

114 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 February 1899
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President of France Félix Faure dies in the act of making love to murderess Marguerite Steinheil at the age of 50 in Paris, France.

96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1917
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Writer Octave Mirbeau dies at the age of 69 in Paris, France.

90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1923
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48-year-old Archaeologist Howard Carter opens the inner chamber of the tomb and first sees the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.

87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1926
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Filmmaker John Richard Schlesinger is born in London, United Kingdom.

78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 February 1935
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Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bono known from Sonny & Cher, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 February 1942
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Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Jong-il Kim originally Yuri Irsenovich Kim, is born in Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.
Official North Korean records say he was born in Mt. Baekdu, Japanese Korea.

71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 February 1942
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28-year-old Serial Killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, is arrested in London, United Kingdom.

59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1954
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Wife-murderer and matricider Donald Merret aka Ronald Chesney, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 46 in Köln, Germany.

59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1954
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Mass Murderer Hastings Arthur Wise is born in South Carolina, USA.

58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 February 1955
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Over 100 Die in elderly home fire in Yokohama, Japan.

55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 February 1958
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Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 33 in Hannover, Zuchthaus Celle, Germany.

51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1962
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Coil musician John or Jhonn Balance originally Geff Rushton, is born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 February 1963
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Constance Madrill is raped and strangled by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, in West Perth, Western, Australia.

48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1965
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Bridget O’Hara aka Bridget Moore, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 27 in London, United Kingdom.

43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 February 1970
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150 Die in train derailment in Nigeria.
Afterwards 52 ‘survivors’ died in a truck crash.

41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 February 1972
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Leslie Richardson is attacked by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, in Heywood, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 February 1978
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Cindy Hudspeth is raped and strangled by Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.

35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 February 1978
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William Kindred aka Billy Shotgun, is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1979
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Lila Bratislav is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 20 in Kocevska Reka, Yugoslavia.

23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 February 1990
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Artist Keith Haring dies of AIDS at the age of 31 in New York, New York, USA.

18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 February 1995
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Murderer Billy Gardener is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1999
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Triple Murderer Johnie Michael Cox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Varner, Arkansas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 February 1999
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Triple murderer Andrew Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 February 2000
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Cop Killer Anthony Lee Chaney is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Florence, State Prison, Arizona, USA.

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