45 Years Ago His Cries Were Unheard

419 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 May 1594
(-) Artist Tintoretto originally Jacopo Comin aka Il Furioso, dies of fever at the age of 75 in Venice, Italy.

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204 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1809
(-) Composer Franz Josef Haydn dies at the age of 77 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

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194 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 May 1819
(+) Poet and humanist Walt Walter Whitman aka the Father of Free Verse, is born in West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island, New York, United States.

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156 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 May 1857
(+) 260th Pope Pius XI originally Achille Ratti, is born in Desio, Italy.

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135 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1878
(-) Murderess Eugenie Marie Chantrelle is executed by hanging at the age of 54 in the United Kingdom.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1922
(-) Murderer Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong is executed by hanging at the age of 53 in Gloucester Prison, United Kingdom.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1928
(-) Murderer Frederick Guy Browne is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1928
(-) Murderer William Henry Kennedy is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 May 1930
(+) Actor and filmmaker Clint Clinton Eastwood is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1945
(+) Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder is born in Bad-Wörishofen, Bayern, Germany.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1945
(x) Nazi-Germany capitulates in WWII.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 May 1953
(-) Futurist artist Wladimir Jewgrafowitsch Tatlin dies at the age of 67 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 May 1960
(-) Writer Willem Elsschot originally Alfons-Jozef De Ridder, dies of skin cancer at the age of 78 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1962
(-) Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Jerusalem, Ramleh Prison, Israël.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 May 1965
(+) Actress Brooke Shields is born in New York, New York, United States.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 May 1965
(x) 37-year-old Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths Clarence 13X originally Clarence Smith aka The Father, is arrested and charged with assault and battery, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, marijuana possession, resisting arrest, and unlawful assembly in New York City, New York, United States.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1967
(-) Jan Douse aka Cra Cupido, is beaten and stabbed to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 80 in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1968
(x) 11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, and Norma Bell break into the local nursery, leaving notes referring to the murder of 4-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1972
(x) In a taped speech, 37-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof calls up students to take up arms and fight the system in Frankfurt-am-Main, Hörsaal 6 der Universität, Germany.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1974
(x) Bomb attack by the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the office of the California Attorney General in response to the killing of six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army in Sacramento, California, United States.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1984
(x) 30-year-old Mass-Murderer Linwood Earl Briley leads the escape of 6 convicted killers from the Mecklenberg Correctional Centre in Boydton, United States.
They are all arrested about 3 weeks later.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1989
(+) Fashion Model Daul Kim is born in Seoul, South Korea.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1990
(-) Joseph Proce is killed by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 78 in New York, Queens, New York, United States.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1991
(-) Writer Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 77 in the United Kingdom.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1996
(-) Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary dies of prostate cancer at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 2000
(-) Multiple Murderer Robert Earl Carter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 May 2010
(-) Artist Louise Bourgeois dies of a heart attack at the age of 98 in New York City, New York, United States.

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235 Years Ago He Wanted to Die in Peace

582 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1431
(-) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 19 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.

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478 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1535
(x) 43-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his third wife Jane Seymour in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
It was only 11 days after the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

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373 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 May 1640
(-) Artist Peter Paul Rubens dies of gout at the age of 62 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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341 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1672
(+) Ruler Peter the Great originally Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov, is born in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

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235 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 May 1778
(-) Writer Voltaire originally François-Marie Arouet, dies at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
When asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce the devil and turn to God, he replied, "For God's sake, let me die in peace."

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199 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1814
(+) Anarchist Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin is born in Pryamukhino, Russia.

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168 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 May 1845
(+) Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I is born in Turin, Italy.

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132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1881
(-) Cornelia De Hees-Van Der Linden is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, Netherlands.
They were sisters in law.

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126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1887
(+) Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko is born in Kiev, Russia.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 May 1906
(+) Heilstrom Mystic Bruno Gröning is born in Gdansk, Poland.

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104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 May 1909
(+) Musician Benny Benjamin David Goodman is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1912
(-) Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright dies of typhoid fever at the age of 45 in Dayton, Ohio, United States.

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86 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1927
(-) Jenny Randolph is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 35 in Buffalo, New York, United States.

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84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1929
(+) Lutheran Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz is born in Willkischken, Lithuania.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 May 1947
(+) Artist Orlan is born in Saint Etienne, Loire, France.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1960
(+) Victim of Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, Beth Wilmot is born in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1960
(-) Writer Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Peredelkino, Russia.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 1961
(-) Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo is assassinated at the age of 70 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 1961
(x) 61 Die in KLM DC-8 crash in Portugal.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1963
(+) Nude model and pornographic performer Shauna Grant originally Colleen Marie Applegate aka Callie Aimes, is born in Bellflower, California, United States.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 May 1969
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is arrested in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 1972
(x) 26 Die and 80 are injured when three gunmen from the Revolutionary Japanese Red Army open fire in the passenger terminal of Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israël.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 1972
(x) Start of the trial against Communist militant group The Angry Brigade in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 May 1981
(-) President Zia Ur-Rahman is killed during a rebellion in Bangladesh.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1985
(-) Arms-Factory director José Martinez-Parens is shot dead by the ETA at the age of 32 in Spain.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 1985
(-) Carol Kyle is attacked and raped by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, in Los Angeles, Burbank, California, United States.
She survived.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 May 1993
(-) Musician Sun Ra originally Herman Poole Blount officially Le Sony’r Ra, dies of pneumonia at the age of 79 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 May 1994
(-) Inventor of the ‘bic’, Marcel Bich dies at the age of 79 in France.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 May 1999
(x) 37-year-old Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong stabs eight women to death in Bejing, China.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 May 2002
(-) Murderer Stanley Allison Jr. Baker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 May 2006
(-) Serial Killer Metod Trobec aka The Monster of Gorejne Vasi, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 57 in Slovenia.

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100 Years Ago Le Printemps n'Étais pas Sacré

574 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 May 1439
(+) 215th Pope Pius III originally Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, is born in Siena, Italy.

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412 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1601
(x) 29-year-old Artist Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio kills Ranuccio Tomassoni in a brawl in Milano, Milano, Italy.
He was outlawed and fled to Naples.

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133 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 May 1880
(+) Historian and philosopher Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler is born in Blankenburg, Brandenburg, Germany.

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119 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1894
(+) Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg originally Jonas Stern, is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

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110 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1903
(+) Actor and musician Bob Leslie Townes Hope is born in London, Eltham, London City of, United Kingdom.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1906
(+) Philosopher and adventurer Walter Menzl is born in Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 May 1913
(x) 30-year-old Composer Igor Fyodorowitsch Strawinsky his ballet "Le Sacre du Printemps" premieres in Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
The premiere involved one of the most famous classical music riots in history.

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99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1914
(-) Weapon designer Paul von Mauser dies at the age of 75 in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany.

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99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1914
(-) Murderess Augusta Fullam dies of a heat-stroke at the age of 40 in Agra Prison, India.

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99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1914
(x) 1024 Die in Empress of Ireland Ocean liner shipwreck in St. Lawrence, Canada.
It collided with the collier.

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96 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1917
(+) 35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 May 1922
(+) Composer Iannis Xenakis is born in Braila, Romania.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1923
(-) Hans Sonnenfeld is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1953
(x) 33-year-old Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary and Tensing Norkey are he first men to reach the top of Mount Everest in Nepal.

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58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 May 1955
(+) Attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan, John Warnock Jr. Hinckley aka Jodie Foster’s Lover Boy, is born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States.

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57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1956
(+) Musician La Toya Yvonne Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, United States.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 May 1957
(-) Horror filmmaker James Whale commits suicide by drowning in his swimming pool at the age of 67 in Hollywood, California, United States.

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47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 May 1966
(+) Child kidnapper and murderer Robert Anderson is born in Great Lakes, Illinois, United States.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1970
(-) Ex-president Pedro Eugenio Arambaru is kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Argentina.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1970
(-) Artist Eva Hesse dies of cancer at the age of 34 in New York, New York, United States.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 May 1971
(-) David Hilligiest is killed by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 13 in Houston Heights, Texas, United States.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1973
(-) Rosa Vasquez is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, United States.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1973
(-) Eugène Stephan is beaten and shot dead by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 25 in Laigneville Cemetary, France.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1979
(-) Actress Mary Pickford originally Gladys Louise Smith aka America’s Sweetheart aka The Girl with the Curls, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 86 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1981
(x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "My Coat is My House" in Hamburg, Künstlerhaus, Germany.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 May 1982
(-) Actress Romy Schneider originally Rose-Marie Magdalena Albach-Retty, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 43 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 May 1985
(x) 39 Die in collapse of a retaining wall between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus F.C. fans in Brussel, Heysel Stadium, Brabant, Belgium.
Hundreds of fans are injured.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1987
(-) Murderer William Boyd Tucker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Jackson, Georgia, United States.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 May 1990
(-) Raymond Smith aka Ricky Beeks, is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 32 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 May 1994
(-) Architect of East Germany Erich Honecker dies of liver cancer at the age of 81 in Santiago, Chili.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 May 1998
(x) The California Board of Prison Terms takes 20 minutes to deny parole to 48-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, United States.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 May 2010
(-) Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper dies of prostate cancer at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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275 Years Ago Il Cherchait une Machine qui Pût Être Substituée à la Main du Bourreau

275 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1738
(+) Physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin is born in Saintes, France.

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173 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1840
(+) Artist Hans Makart is born in Salzburg, Austria.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 May 1905
(+) Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is born in Tokyo, Kanda, Japan.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 1906
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is convicted to 3 months imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

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105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1908
(+) Writer Ian Lancaster Fleming is born in London, Mayfair, London City of, United Kingdom.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 May 1921
(+) Writer Heinz Gunther Konsalik is born in Köln, Germany.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 1923
(+) Composer Györgi Sándor Ligeti is born in Diciosanmartin, Tirnaeni, Romania.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1935
(x) 23-year-old Wife of Adolf Hitler for one day Eva Anna Paula Braun is found unconscious after swallowing 35 tablets of Vanodorm in München, Bayern, Germany.
She recovered a couple of days later.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1940
(x) Belgium capitulates for Nazi-Germany in WWII..

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73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1940
(-) Murderer Boyd Wilson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 44 in Nevada, United States.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1942
(-) Gladys Hosking is strangled by Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
He wanted to get her voice.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 May 1944
(+) Musician Gladys Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1947
(-) Nazi-doctor in Auschwitz and Mauthausen Friedrich Entress is executed by hanging in Landsberg, Germany.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 May 1948
(-) Supposed mistress of Adolf Hitler Unity Valkyrie Mitford dies due to injuries inflicted in a suicide-attempt 10 years earlier at the age of 33 in Oban, United Kingdom.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 May 1949
(+) Musician Wendy O. Orlean Williams aka The Queen of Shock Rock, is born in Webster, New York, United States.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1959
(x) 92 Die in train derailment in Java.

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49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1964
(x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for car theft in Oklahoma City, United States.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 May 1965
(x) Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Bihar, India.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 May 1971
(-) Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is killed in a plane crash at the age of 45 in Catawba, Virginia, United States.
The pilot and four passengers also died.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 May 1972
(-) Ex-King of England Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Edward VIII aka The Duke of Windsor, dies of throat cancer at the age of 77 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, 4 Rue du Champ d'Entrainement, France.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 1973
(-) Artist Jacques Chaim Jacob Lipchitz dies at the age of 81 in Capri, Italy.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1974
(x) 6 die in a bomb-attack during an anti-fascist rally in Brescia, Italy.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 May 1977
(x) 160 Die in Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, United States.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1981
(-) Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski aka The Primate of the Millennium, dies at the age of 79 in Warsaw, Poland.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1981
(x) 24-year-old IRA-member Martin Edward Hurson originally Mairtin O hUrsain, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1981
(-) Christine Schultz is shot into her back and through her heart by Laurie Bembenek aka Bambi, at the age of 30 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1986
(-) Wilfred Parkes is choked to death by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 70 in London, Stockwell Park Estate, Albamarle House, London City of, United Kingdom.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 May 1987
(-) Murderer Anthony Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 May 1993
(-) Christopher Dunn is tortured to death by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 37 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 1996
(-) Sabine Dardenne is abducted and held imprisoned by Marc Dutroux at the age of 13 in Kain, Belgium.
She was locked up in a cellar for 80 days.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1997
(x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Thomas Quick originally Sture Ragnar Bergwall, is convicted to indefinite confinement in a security asylum for the criminally insane for the 1988 murder of the Israeli tourist Yinon Levy in Sweden.
This is his fourth conviction for the serial killer who has confessed to 15 killings.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 1997
(-) Double Murderer Robert Madden is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 May 2002
(-) Murderer Napoleon Beazley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 25 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 May 2003
(-) Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine dies at the age of 86 in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 2007
(-) Japanese minister of Agriculture Toshikatsu Matsuoka commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in Tokyo, Japan.
He was involved in several corruption scandals.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 May 2007
(-) Artist Jörg Immendorff dies of heart failure and Lou Gehrig's Disease at the age of 61 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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55 Years Ago He Was Doomed to Too Many Things Unseen

186 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1827
(x) 18-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Boston, Fort Independence, Massachusetts, United States.

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176 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1837
(+) Gunfighter James Butler Hickok aka Wild Bill Hickok, is born in Troy Grove, Illinois, United States.

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173 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1840
(-) Composer Niccolo Paganini dies of a lung bleeding due to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 57 in Nice, France.

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163 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 May 1850
(+) Serial Killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, is born in Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

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160 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1853
(-) Slave and murderess Jane Elkins is executed by hanging in Dallas, Texas, United States.
She is the first woman to be executed in Texas.

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150 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1863
(-) Murderer Claudous C. Frizell is executed by hanging in Fort Scott, Kansas, United States.

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122 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1891
(x) 36-year-old Writer Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud has his left leg amputated because of carcinoma in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.

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119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1894
(+) Writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches Celine is born in Courbevoie, Asnières, France.

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119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1894
(+) Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett is born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, United States.

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116 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 May 1897
(-) Beaupied is strangled by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 14 in France.

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102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1911
(+) Actor Vincent Leonard Price is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1919
(-) Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Baden-Baden, Germany.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1921
(+) Robber, kidnapper and rapist Caryl Whittler Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit, is born in St. Joseph, Michigan, United States.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1922
(+) Actor Christopher Frank Carandini Lee known from “Dracula”, is born in Belgravia, Westminster, United Kingdom.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1923
(+) Politician Henry Heinz Alfred Kissinger is born in Fürth, Bayern, Germany.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 May 1940
(-) Murderer Mateo Quinionis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hawaï, United States.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1941
(x) 37-year-old Nazi-leader Richard Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Josef Gabcik and Kan Kubis in Prague, Holesovice, Czechoslowakia.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1958
(+) Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is born in Atlanta, Dixie Hills, Georgia, United States.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1960
(+) Reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze, is born in Rochester, Minnesota, United States.

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47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1966
(x) 6 French army-jets crash due to a lack of fuel in Spain.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1969
(-) Darwin Scott is stabbed to death and mutilated by persons unknown at the age of 64 in United States.
He was the brother of Colonel Smith.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1978
(-) Eric Christgen is abducted and killed by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 4 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 May 1993
(x) 5 Die in a Maffia bomb-attack on the famous Uffizi-Museum in Firenze, Italy.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1994
(-) Triple Murderer Charles Campbell is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, United States.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1994
(-) Cop Killer Stephen Ray Nethery is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 2003
(-) Composer Luciano Berio dies at the age of 77 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

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100 Years Ago the Baby Smirked, the Father Sneered and the Mother Screamed

535 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1478
(+) 219th Pope Clementius VII originally Giulio di Giuliano de Medici, is born in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

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366 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1647
(-) Witch Alse Young is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Windsor, Connecticut, United States.
She was the first person in the records executed for witchcraft in the USA.

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191 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1822
(x) 116 Die in Grue Church fire in Skulstad, Norway.

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185 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1828
(x) 16-year-old Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, is found on a market square in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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160 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1853
(+) Outlaw and gunman John Wesley Hardin is born in Bonham, Texas, United States.

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146 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1867
(+) Queen consort of the United Kingdom Victoria Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes Mary of Teck is born in London, Kensington Palace, London City of, United Kingdom.

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135 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1878
(+) Choreographer Isadora Angela Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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130 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1883
(+) Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, is born in Mulheim-am-Rhein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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129 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1884
(-) Husband murderess Mary Lefley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Lincoln, United Kingdom.
She had to be dragged to the gallows screaming 'murder, murder!' and struggling with the warders.

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127 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1886
(+) Singer Al Jolson originally Asa Yoelson aka The World’s Greatest Entertainer, is born in Seredzius, Lithuania.

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114 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 May 1899
(+) War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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109 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1904
(-) Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Edouard Brutus de la Tourette dies due to depression and hypomania at the age of 46 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1907
(+) Actor John Wayne originally Marion Michael Morrison, is born in Winterset, Iowa, United States.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1913
(+) Horror film actor Peter Wilton Cushing is born in Kenley, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 May 1916
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, sets fire to the State Penitentiary’s flax mill and workshops in Oregon, United States.

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93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1920
(+) Singer, songwriter and actress Peggy Lee originally Norma Deloris Egstrom, is born in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 May 1922
(x) 52-year-old Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is hit by a stroke in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1923
(+) Actor Horst Tappert aka Stephan Derrick, is born in Elberfeld, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1924
(-) Fritz Wittig is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1924
(-) Friedrich Abeling is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 10 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1926
(+) Musician Miles Dewey III Davis is born in Alton, Illinois, United States.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1928
(+) Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is born in Pontiac, Michigan, United States.

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75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1938
(-) Murderer Robert Hoolhouse is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Durham Gaol, United Kingdom.

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75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1938
(+) Murderess Pauline Yvonne Parker aka Heavenly Creature, is born in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1946
(-) Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1946
(+) Musician Michael “Mick” Ronson is born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1954
(x) 103 Die in US Bennington aircraftcarrier explosion.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1954
(+) Serial Killer Danny Harold Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper, is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

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57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1956
(+) Army Veteran and Suicide Pilot Frank Eugene Corder is born in Perry Point, Maryland, United States.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1957
(+) Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, is born in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1971
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is arrested and charged with the murders of 25 migrant farm workers in Yuba City, California, United States.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1976
(-) Philosopher Martin Heidegger dies at the age of 86 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1983
(x) The Public Health Service announces AIDS to be the number 1 public health menace in United States.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1984
(-) Michelle Simms is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 22 in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1991
(x) 223 Die in Lauda-Air Flight 004 Boeing 767-3Z9ER "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" crash in Phu Toei National Park, Suphanburi, Thailand.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1991
(-) Konerak Sinthasomphone is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 14 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 2003
(-) Falun Gong member Li Rongxian is tortured to death at the age of 44 in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp, Jilin, China.
He also suffered of advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis.

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9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 2004
(x) 44-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Hij die geen Hart Heeft zal geen Hartepijn Hebben" in Borgerhout, Factor 44, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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5 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 2008
(-) Filmmaker Sydney Irwin Pollack dies of stomach cancer at the age of 73 in Pacific Palisades, California, United States.

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100 Years Ago Begann Seine Vampiren Karriere

928 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 May 1085
(-) Pope Gregorius VII originally Hildebrand of Sovana, dies in exile at the age of 65 in Salerno, Apulia, Italy.

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752 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1261
(-) Pope Alexander IV originally Rinaldo di Jenne, dies at the age of 62 in Viterbo, Italy.

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148 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 1865
(+) Founder of the WMCA John Raleigh Mott is born in New York, Livingston Manor, New York, United States.

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148 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 1865
(x) 300 Die in ordnance depot explosion in Mobile, Alabama, United States.

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126 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1887
(+) Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, is born in Pietrelcina, Italy.

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124 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 1889
(+) Aircraft pioneer Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorsky is born in Kiev, Russia.

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121 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1892
(+) President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito is born in Kumrovec, Croatia, Yugoslavia.

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118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 1895
(x) 40-year-old Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to two years in prison in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 May 1913
(-) Christine Klein is killed by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 9 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1927
(+) Writer Robert Ludlum is born in New York, New York, United States.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 May 1943
(x) In a letter to Enrico Fermi, 39-year-old Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Julius Oppenheimer discusses the possibility of infecting food with Strontium 90, whereby easily about 1/2 million people could be killed at once in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 May 1954
(+) IRA-member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, is born in Derry, Ireland.

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57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 May 1956
(+) IRA-member Kevin Lynch originally Caoimhghin O Loinsigh, is born in Dungiven, Londonderry, Ireland.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 1961
(-) Murderer Victor John Terry is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Bedford, United Kingdom.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 1963
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the 2nd floor of a building he owns, collecting 15000$ on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, United States.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 1968
(-) Martin Brown is strangled by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, at the age of 4 in Newcastle, Scotswood, 85 St. Margaret’s Road, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 May 1969
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is arrested and questioned but released by the FBI in Corvallis, Callahan Hall Lounge, Oregon, United States.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 1974
(x) Miguel Rivera is arrested on suspicion of being the Unidentified murderer Charlie Chopoff but is never brought to trial in New York, Eighth Street, New York, United States.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1977
(x) 2 unidentified burglars are blown to pieces whilst robbing a safe in a dynamite warehouse in Hunnerberg, Sweden.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 1978
(x) 36-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap bomb in the parking lot of the Engineering Department in Chicago, University Circle Campus, Illinois, United States.
The bomb explodes the next day, when opened at the Northwestern Technological Institute police department, one person is injured.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 May 1979
(-) Murderer John Arthur Spenkelink is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, United States.
After the execution, unfounded rumors spread that the fighting, shouting Spenkelink was dragged to the electric chair, gagged, beaten, and had his neck broken.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 May 1979
(x) 271 Die in American Airlines Flight 191 McDonnel Douglas DC-10 crash during takeoff in Chicago, O'Hare International Airport, Illinois, United States.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1983
(x) 294 Die in 10th of the Ramadan Ferry explosion in Nasser Lake, Egypt.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 May 1984
(-) Sue Luna is abducted and killed by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 23 in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 May 1984
(-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 1985
(x) Over 400 Die in M.V. Shamia Ferry capsizing in Meghna River, Bangladesh.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 May 1986
(+) Juvenile mass murderer Andrew Golden aka Drew Douglas Grant, is born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 1989
(-) Murderer Stephen McCoy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 May 1990
(-) GRAPO-terrorist Jose Manuel Sevillano dies after 177 days hungerstriking at the age of 30 in Madrid, prison hospital, Spain.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 2000
(-) Murderer James Edward Clayton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 2002
(x) 197 Die in train crash in Tenga, Mozambique.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 2006
(-) Musician Desmond Adolphus Dekker originally Dacres, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in London, Croydon, London City of, United Kingdom.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 May 2007
(x) 21-year-old Juvenile mass murderer Andrew Golden aka Drew Douglas Grant, is released from prison after serving 9 years for the Jonesboro Massacre in Alexander, Youth Services Division Juvenile Facility, Arkansas, United States.

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470 Years Ago the Sky Turned Dark

519 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 1494
(+) Artist Jacopo Pontormo originally Jacopo Carucci, is born in Pontormo, Italy.

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470 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1543
(-) Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies of a stroke at the age of 70 in Frombork, Poland.

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327 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1686
(+) Physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is born in Gdansk, Poland.

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270 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1743
(+) Activist in the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat is born in Boudry, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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194 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1819
(+) Queen Alexandrina Victoria is born in London, Kensington Palace, London City of, United Kingdom.

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114 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 1899
(+) Writer and painter Henri Michaux is born in Namur, Namur, Belgium.

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104 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1909
(+) Dr. Philip Blaiberg is born in Uniondale, South Africa.

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96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 1917
(-) Double Murderer Dr. Arthur Warren Waite is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, United States.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 May 1930
(x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, is arrested in Düsseldorf, Mettmanner Straße, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1935
(-) Murderer Tellie McQuate is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, United States.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1940
(+) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, is born in Leningrad, Russia.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 May 1941
(+) Musician Bob Dylan originally Robert Zimmerman, is born in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 1945
(+) Actress Priscilla Presley is born in New York, New York, United States.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1954
(+) Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is born in Arizona, United States.

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57 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 1956
(+) Rapist and child-murderer Steven Timothy Judy is born in Indiana, United States.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 1972
(x) 3 US-soldiers die and 5 are injured in a German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion bomb attack on the American Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany.
The 15 Juli Commando claims responsability for the attack.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 1972
(-) Actress Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen dies at the age of 90 in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1974
(-) Musician Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington dies of lung cancer at the age of 75 in New York, New York, United States.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 May 1975
(-) Mass-Murderer Russel Smith commits suicide by a shot through the head in Dayton, Ohio, United States.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1982
(x) Suzanne Wagner escapes after being held imprisoned as a sex-slave for over a year by Sex Researcher Dr. Ulrich Kochwald in Regensburg, Germany.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 May 1983
(+) Model and actress Seung-yeon Woo is born in Seoul, South Korea.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1985
(x) Serial Killer Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Frankfurt, Germany.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 May 1987
(x) Almost a million people walk from each side over the Golden Gate Bridge on it’s 50th anniversary festivity-day in San Francisco, California, United States.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1991
(-) Anthony Hughes is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 31 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 2000
(-) Murderer Richard Donald Foster is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 2006
(-) Double murderer Jesus Ledesma Aguilar is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 2007
(-) Murderer Christopher Newton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Ohio, United States.
It took the medics over 2 hours to find a suitable artery to insert the syringes.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 2010
(x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Stephen Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal, is arrested after a CCTV camera caught him shooting 36-year-old prostitute Suzanne Blamires in the head with a crossbow in Bradford, Holmfield Courtflats, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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25 Years Ago Life Was a Gas

583 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 May 1430
(x) 18-year-old Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve the city in Compiègne, France.

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279 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 May 1734
(+) Physician and inventor of Animal Magnetism Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer is born in Moos, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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165 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1848
(+) Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal aka The Glider King, is born in Anklam, Pomerania, Germany.

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145 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1868
(-) Trapper Christopher “Kit” Houston Carson dies of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the age of 58 in Fort Lyon, Colorado, United States.

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130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1883
(+) Actor Douglas Fairbanks originally Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, is born in Denver, Colorado, United States.

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121 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1892
(-) Mass murderer of his first wife and four children and second wife Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston, is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Old Melbourne Gaol, Victoria, Australia.
About 10.000 spectators showed up.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1906
(-) Writer Hendrik Ibsen dies of a stroke at the age of 78 in Oslo, Norway.

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103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1910
(+) Artist Franz Jozef Kline is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.

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103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1910
(+) Musician and bandleader Artie Shaw originally Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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95 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 May 1918
(-) Joseph Maggio is hacked to death by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
His wife is also killed in the same event.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1923
(-) Roland Hoch is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1933
(+) Actress Joan Henrietta Collins is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

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79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1934
(-) Clyde Barker and Bonnie Parker are shot dead by the police at the age of 25 in Gibsland, Louisiana, United States.
They were lured in an ambush by an accomplice.

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79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1934
(+) Musician and inventor Robert Arthur Moog is born in New York, New York, United States.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1936
(-) Multiple Child-Murderer Adolf Seefeld is executed by the Guillotine in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 May 1937
(-) Philantropist and industrialist John Davison Rockefeller dies of arteriosclerosis at the age of 97 in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1939
(+) Composer Michel Colombier aka Fusion-Sama, is born in Lyon, France.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1939
(+) Mountain climber Junko Tabei is born in Japan.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 1945
(-) Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Lüneburg, Germany.

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63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1950
(+) Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is born in Sacramento, California, United States.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 May 1958
(+) Victim of Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, Kathy Sue Miller is born in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 May 1958
(-) Murderer Emil Tillman commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 41 in Germany.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1959
(-) Murderer Edward Eckwerth is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, New York, United States.

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49 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1964
(x) 328 Die in soccer riot caused by a denied goal in the game Peru-Argentina in Lima, Peru.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1967
(x) 4-year-old Zeena LaVey is the first person to receive a legal Satanic baptism ever in San Francisco, The Church of Satan, California, United States.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1967
(-) Actress Kitty Ting Hao aka Little Darling, dies at the age of 27 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 May 1969
(-) Paul Adam Meyer crashes in the Channel with a Hercules C-130 he had stolen from Cambridge airbase at the age of 23 in Alderney, United Kingdom.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1970
(+) Assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Yigal Amir is born in Herzliya, Israël.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 May 1981
(x) 25-year-old IRA-member Kevin Lynch originally Caoimhghin O Loinsigh, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

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25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1988
(-) Psychopatic killer Roberto Succo aka ‘André’, commits suicide by opening a gas refill in a plastic bag over his head in his prison cell at the age of 26 in Vicenza, Italy.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 1989
(x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is sentenced to 5 years probation for sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 May 1991
(-) Murderer Ignacio Cuevas is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 May 1994
(-) George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, dies at the age of 90 in Waterbury, New York, United States.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 May 1997
(-) Artist James Lee Byars dies at the age of 65 in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 2000
(-) Falun Gong member Yulan Mei dies in police detention after she was fatally injured during force-feeding at the age of 44 in Minghang hospital, Beijing, China.
On may 17 she was force-fed by an inmate who had no medical skills at all, the feeding tube was wrongly inserted causing serious injuries. After she returned to her cell she had a headache and started to vomit blood, lapsed into a coma and never regained consciousness again. She was the 19th Falun Gong member to die in police custody.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 May 2000
(-) Murderer James David Richardson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 May 2007
(x) 72-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is denied parole for the eleventh time in Corcoran, California, United States.

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200 Years Ago War Sein Atem Die Musik

346 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 May 1667
(-) 237th Pope Alexander VII originally Fabio Chigi, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

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230 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1783
(+) Inventor of electromagnets William Sturgeon is born in Whittington, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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200 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 1813
(+) Composer Richard Wilhelm Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany.

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154 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 May 1859
(+) Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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128 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1885
(-) Writer Victor Marie Hugo dies of pneumonia at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

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106 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1907
(+) Actor and filmmaker Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier is born in Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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106 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1907
(+) Artist Georges Prosper Remi aka Hergé, is born in Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.

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99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1914
(+) Musician Sun Ra originally Herman Poole Blount officially Le Sony’r Ra, is born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

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98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 1915
(x) 227 Die in three train collision in Gretna Green, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1924
(+) Musician Charles Aznavour originally Shahnour Vaghinagh Aznavourian, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1925
(+) Artist Jean Tinguely is born in Fribourg, Switzerland.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1925
(-) Murderer L. W. Peare is executed by hanging at the age of 67 in Oregon, United States.
He went on a moonshine spree and killed his wife among others.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1925
(-) Murderer Arthur Covell is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Oregon, United States.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1930
(+) Public supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Bernard Milk is born in Woodmere, New York, United States.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1940
(+) Actor Michael Jacques Andre Sarrazin known from “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, is born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1942
(+) Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 May 1951
(+) Serial Killer Kenneth Alessio Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, is born in Rochester, New York, United States.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1957
(-) Wife murderer Leonard Coey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 58 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1957
(+) Murderer John Dennis Daniels is born in North Carolina, United States.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 May 1960
(+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Jacqueline Hill is born in the United Kingdom.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 May 1962
(-) Robber and mass murderer Thomas G. Doty blows up a Continental Airlines Flight 11 Boeing 707 as an insurance fraud in Unionville, Missouri, United States.
37 other passengers and 7 crew also died in the explosion.

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49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1964
(-) Spree killer Reuben Rolle commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 30 in Nassau, Bahamas.
He first shot 6 people in the Grove Club.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 May 1967
(x) 252 Die in L’Innovation department store fire in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
The fire inspired the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe to use this kind of disaster as a terrorist action, something they would actually do less than a year later.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1968
(x) 99 Die in USS Scorpion nuclear submarine shipwreck in the Atlantic.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1970
(+) Fashion Model Naomi Campbell is born in Streatham, South London, London City of, United Kingdom.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 1971
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, marries Paula Dietz in Park City, Kansas, United States.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 May 1972
(x) Ceylon adopts a new constitution and changes its name to Sri Lanka .

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41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 May 1972
(+) Triple murderer Riley Dobi Noel is born in Arkansas, United States.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 May 1978
(-) Mafia-leader Joseph “Joe” Colombo dies after vegetating for seven years after being shot in the head at the age of 63 in New York, Blooming Grove, New York, United States.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1980
(-) Leslie O’Dell is tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 18 in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, United States.
They spent 3 hours of rape and sexual torture in room 117 of the Quality Inn Motel, Cottingham was arrested later that day.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1981
(x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is convicted to life-imprisonment for killing 13 women in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1981
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is questioned by the police near the Chattahoochee River where three days later the body of 27-year-old Nathaniel Cater was found in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1981
(x) 25-year-old IRA-member Kieran Doherty originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 1982
(-) Angela Marks is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1987
(-) Murderer Richard Tucker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, United States.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 May 1990
(-) Boxer Rocky Graziano originally Thomas Rocco Barbella, dies of cardiopulmonary failure at the age of 71 in New York City, New York, United States.

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21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1992
(-) Murder-instigator Robert Black is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
He hired John Wayne Hearn to kill his wife Sandra.

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21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1992
(x) 66-year-old TV-host Johnny Carson presents his last show on NBC in Hollywood, California, United States.
For the last time America heard "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!".

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16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1997
(-) Poet Herman De Coninck dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Lissabon, Portugal.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1997
(-) Murderer Larry White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 2002
(-) Murderer Johnny Joe Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 May 2007
(-) Murderer Robert Comer is executed by lethal injection in Arizona, United States.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 2010
(x) 158 Die in Air India Express Flight IX-812 Boeing 737-800 crash in Bajpe Airport, Mangalore, India.
Seven people survived. The plane skidded off the landing strip because the pilot fell asleep.

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15 Years Ago He Decided not to Change His Behaviour

542 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1471
(+) Artist Albrecht Dürer is born in Nürnberg, Germany.

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542 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1471
(-) King of England Henry VI dies of melancholy after hearing of his son's death in the Battle of Tewkesbury at the age of 49 in London, Tower of London prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

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380 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1633
(+) Composer Joseph De La Barre is born in France.

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169 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1844
(+) Artist Henri Julien Félix Rousseau aka Le Douanier, is born in Laval, Mayenne, France.

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140 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 May 1873
(-) Johanna Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, at the age of 12 in Leiden, Netherlands.

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106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1907
(+) German ambassador Karl Maria von Spreti is born in Landshut, Germany.

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97 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1916
(+) Writer Harold Robbins originally Francis Kane and given the adoptive name Harold Rubin, is born in New York, New York, United States.

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95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1918
(-) An unidentified girl is assaulted by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in California, United States.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1921
(+) Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov is born in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1921
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is charged with assault on a child and sent to an asylum in San Francisco, California, United States.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 May 1924
(-) Bobby Franks is kidnapped and killed by Nathan & Richard Leopold & Loeb aka The Perfect Murderers, at the age of 14 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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86 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1927
(x) 25-year-old Aviation pioneer Charles Augustus Lindbergh aka The Lone Eagle, is the first man to fly from New York to Paris non-stop.

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81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1932
(x) 34-year-old Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, landing in in Derry, Ireland.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 May 1943
(x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is arrested by the French Gestapo, suspected of leading an escape-route for jews in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

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62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 May 1951
(+) Serial Killer Douglas Edward Gretzler is born in Arizona, United States.
Along with mental hospital escapee Willie Luther Steelman, he killed 19 people.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 May 1954
(-) Murderer Nathaniel Germany is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1960
(+) Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is born in Milwaukee, Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Wisconsin, United States.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1963
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the basement of a building he owns, collecting 15000$ on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, United States.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1963
(+) Murderer Donald Jay Miller is born in Arizona, United States.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 May 1965
(-) Mass-Murderer Roger Girard commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 34 in Chavagneux, France.
He first killed his 34-year-old wife Jeannette, his 58-year-old mother Angèle, his 23-year-old brother Robert and 10-year-old Eliane, 8-year-old Jacqueline, 7-year-old Bernard, 4-year-old Yves, 2-year-old Daniel, 16-months-old Sylvianne and 6-months-old Pierre.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1968
(x) 26-year-old Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkin Jones is arrested for marijuana possession in United Kingdom.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 May 1970
(-) Jutta Rahn is strangled by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Breitscheid, Germany.
Her 20-year-old boyfriend Peter Schay is charged with the crime and spent 15 months in prison before he was released due to lack of evidence.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1972
(x) 33-year-old Michelangelo’s ‘Piëta’-attacker Laszlo Toth strikes in the St-Peters-Dom in Rome, Roma, Italy.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1972
(-) Billy Baulch is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 17 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, United States.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1974
(x) 53-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys starts his performance "I like America and America likes Me" in New York City, René Block Gallery, New York, United States.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 May 1975
(x) Start of the trial against the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion members Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 May 1976
(x) The artificial respiration for 22-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, is stopped in St. Claire's Hospital, New Jersey, United States.
She would remain in a coma for almost 10 years until her death.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 May 1981
(-) IRA-member Raymond Peter McCreesh originally Réamann Mac Raois, dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the third to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 May 1981
(-) IRA-member Patrick Patsy O’Hara originally Padraig or Peatsai O hEadra, dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 23 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the fourth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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25 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1988
(x) 32-year-old Elite-sergeant Marciano Contaoe shoots 11 people in a drunken rage in Manila, the Fillipines.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1989
(x) Over 150 Die in Darma Mulia Ferry capsizing in Street of Lombok, Indonesia.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1996
(x) About 800 Die in MV Bukoba steamer sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
Among the victims was Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, who was at the time second in command of the Al Qaeda.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 May 1997
(-) Murderer Bruce Callins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 May 1998
(x) 15-year-old Spree killer Kip Kipland Philip Kinkel drives to his school where he starts a shooting rampage that kills two of his classmates and wounds another 22 in Springfield, Thurston High School cafeteria, Oregon, United States.
The day before he had been expelled from school for possession of a handgun, in the evening he killed his parents to protect them from the embarrassment that his expulsion would have caused.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 2000
(-) Founder of Herbalife International Inc. Mark Reynolds Hughes dies of a combination of alcohol and anti-depressant Doxepin at the age of 44 in Malibu, California, United States.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 2000
(-) Actor John Gielgud dies at the age of 96 in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 2002
(-) Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle dies at the age of 71 in La Jolla, California, United States.

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