(-) Scientist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 50 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
He was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling watered-down tobacco and tried, convicted and executed on the same day.
202 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 May 1811
(-) Murderer Arthur William Hodge is executed by hanging in the West Indies.
188 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 May 1825
(+) Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant is born in Geneve, Switzerland.
133 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 May 1880
(-) Writer Gustave Flaubert dies of apoplexy at the age of 58 in Croisset, France.
129 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 May 1884
(+) 33rd president of the USA Harry S. (Shippe or Solomon) Truman is born in Lamar, Montana, United States.
127 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 May 1886
(x) 55-year-old Druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola John Stith Pemberton brews his first 'delicious, refreshing, exhilarating, invigorating' beverage and touted it as a 'valuable brain tonic' that would cure headaches, relieve exhaustion and calm nerves in Columbus, Eagle Drug & Chemical Company, Georgia, United States.
122 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 May 1891
(-) Theosophist Madame Blavatsky originally Helena Petrovna Hahn, dies of complications from influenza at the age of 59 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
120 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 May 1893
(-) Murderer Carlyle W. Harris is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, New York, United States.
(+) Actor Fernand Contandin aka Fernandel, is born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.
110 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 May 1903
(-) Artist Paul Gauguin dies of syphilis at the age of 54 in Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.
109 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 May 1904
(-) Photographer Eadweard James Muybridge dies at the age of 74 in Kingston-Upon-Thames, United Kingdom.
108 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 May 1905
(-) Gangster Bill Rudolph aka The Missouri Kid, is executed by hanging in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
107 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 May 1906
(+) Filmmaker Roberto Rosselini is born in Rome, Roma, Italy.
105 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 May 1908
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is caught in the act of strangling 10-year-old Marcel Poirot, and is arrested in Commercy, France.
93 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 May 1920
(-) Black Henry Scott is riddled with bullets for asking a white woman to wait a few minutes in Tampa, Florida, United States.
93 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 May 1920
(+) Fetish artist Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland, is born in Kaarina, Finland.
81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 May 1932
(+) World-champion boxing Sonny Liston is born in Sand Slough, Arkansas, United States.
80 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 May 1933
(x) 63-year-old Indian Leader Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, starts a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 May 1936
(-) Historian and philosopher Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler dies of a heart attack at the age of 55 in München, Bayern, Germany.
73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 May 1940
(+) Writer Peter Bradford Benchley known for ‘Jaws’, is born in New York, New York, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 May 1940
(+) Musician Eric Hilliard Nelson aka Ricky Nelson, is born in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 May 1944
(+) Singer-songwriter Gary Glitter originally Paul Francis Gadd aka Paul Raven, is born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 May 1945
(x) 17-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is arrested and charged with burglary and first degree robbery in Denver, Vrain Street, Colorado, United States.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 May 1946
(+) Serial Killer J.C. Simon aka The Red Zebra Killer, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.
55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 May 1958
(x) 128 Die in train collision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
54 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 May 1959
(-) Cop Killer Ronald Henry Marwood is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 May 1966
(+) Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, Ervin Dwayne Gibson is born in Illinois, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 May 1966
(-) Manfred Grassman is abducted, tortured and murdered by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 11 in Essen-Schonnebeck, Germany.
45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 May 1968
(x) 34-year-old Gangsters and murderous twins Reginald & Ronald Kray aka The Profession of Violence, are arrested in their flats in Finsbury, City Road, Braithwaite House, United Kingdom.
40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 May 1973
(x) All imprisoned members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe / German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion start their second hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.
37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 May 1976
(-) Karin Toepfer is raped and strangled by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, in Dinslaken, Germany.
35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 May 1978
(x) 41-year-old Gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Ennemy n°1, escapes from the Santé Prison with his accomplices Besse and Carman in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 May 1980
(-) Gabriela Roesner is raped and strangled by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 23 in Langen, Germany.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 May 1985
(x) 42-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to the Auburn Fabrication Division of the Boeing Company in Oakland, California, United States.
25 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 May 1988
(-) Writer Robert Anson Heinlein aka The Dean of Science Fiction Writers, dies of heart failure at the age of 80 in Carmel, California, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 May 1990
(-) Composer Luigi Nono dies at the age of 66 in Venice, Italy.
22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 May 1991
(x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, United States.
It is his 11th consecutive life-sentence.
20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 May 1993
(-) Murderer Larry Joe Johnson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 49 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, United States.
19 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 May 1994
(-) Actor George Peppard aka Colonel “Hannibal” Smith, dies of cancer at the age of 65 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 May 1997
(-) Murderer Scott Carpenter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 22 in McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.
He was the youngest person to be executed since capital punishment resumed in 1976.
14 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 May 1999
(-) Actor Dirk Bogarde dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
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