(-) Pope Gregorius VII originally Hildebrand of Sovana, dies in exile at the age of 65 in Salerno, Apulia, Italy.
752 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1261
(-) Pope Alexander IV originally Rinaldo di Jenne, dies at the age of 62 in Viterbo, Italy.
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.
148 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 1865
(x) 300 Die in ordnance depot explosion in Mobile, Alabama, United States.
126 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1887
(+) Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, is born in Pietrelcina, Italy.
124 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 1889
(+) Aircraft pioneer Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorsky is born in Kiev, Russia.
121 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1892
(+) President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito is born in Kumrovec, Croatia, Yugoslavia.
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.
(-) 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.
86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1927
(+) Writer Robert Ludlum is born in New York, New York, United States.
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.
59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 May 1954
(+) IRA-member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, is born in Derry, Ireland.
57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 May 1956
(+) IRA-member Kevin Lynch originally Caoimhghin O Loinsigh, is born in Dungiven, Londonderry, Ireland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 May 1983
(x) 294 Die in 10th of the Ramadan Ferry explosion in Nasser Lake, Egypt.
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.
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.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 1985
(x) Over 400 Die in M.V. Shamia Ferry capsizing in Meghna River, Bangladesh.
27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 May 1986
(+) Juvenile mass murderer Andrew Golden aka Drew Douglas Grant, is born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 1989
(-) Murderer Stephen McCoy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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.
13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 May 2000
(-) Murderer James Edward Clayton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 May 2002
(x) 197 Die in train crash in Tenga, Mozambique.
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.
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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