(-) 222nd Pope Marcellus II originally Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi, dies at the age of 54 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
441 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 May 1572
(-) 225th Pope St. Pius V originally Michele Ghisleri, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
160 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 May 1853
(+) Scout Martha Jane Canary-Burke aka Calamity Jane, is born in Princeton, Missouri, United States.
(-) Explorer David Livingstone dies of dysentery at the age of 60 in Chief Chitambo's village near Lake Bangweulu, Zambia.
The actual cause of death was blood loss due to severe bleeding from the anus. His heart was buried under a tree on the spot where he died, his body was taken to London to be buried there.
116 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 May 1897
(x) 51-year-old Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, kills his 40-year-old wife Louisa Bicknese in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
He probably mixed her body in the meat at his sausage company.
113 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 May 1900
(x) Over 200 Die in Winter Quarters Mine explosion in Scofield, Utah, United States.
109 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 May 1904
(-) Composer Antonín Leopold Dvorák dies of heart failure at the age of 62 in Prague, Czechoslowakia.
98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 May 1915
(+) President of the German Employers’ Association Hanns Martin Schleyer is born in Offenburg, Germany.
96 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 May 1917
(-) Double Murderer Dr. Arthur Warren Waite is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, New York, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 May 1923
(+) Writer Joseph Heller is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
86 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 May 1927
(-) Jennie Randolph is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Buffalo, New York, United States.
82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 May 1931
(x) The Empire State Building is inaugurated by the 56-year-old 31st president of the USA Herbert Clark Hoover in New York, New York, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 May 1945
(+) Musician Rita Faye Coolidge is born in Lafayette, Tennessee, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 May 1945
(-) Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels commits suicide by poison and a shot through the head at the age of 47 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 May 1945
(-) Wife of Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels Magda Goebbels originally Johanna Maria Magdalena Behrend, commits suicide by poison and a shot through the head at the age of 43 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
She first poisoned all of her 6 children with cyanide.
66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 May 1947
(-) Georgia Weckler is presumably murdered by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, in Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States.
53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 May 1960
(x) A Lockheed U-2 aircraft with 30-year-old US Spy Pilot Gary Francis “Frank” Powers is shot down in Sverdlovsk, Russia.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 May 1966
(-) Marysa Galazka is stabbed to death and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Warsaw, Zoliborz, Poland.
40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 May 1973
(x) 27-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Movie on the Way Down" at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 May 1974
(x) 250 Die in motor launch capsizing in Bangladesh.
39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 May 1974
(x) The Black Zebra Killers JC Simon, Manuel Moore and Larry Green are arrested in San Francisco, California, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 May 1985
(x) 2 firemen are killed in the fourteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, VBO-Building, Brussels, Belgium.
20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 May 1993
(-) Ex-Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 67 in Nièvre, France.
15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 May 1998
(-) Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver dies of diabetes and prostate cancer at the age of 62 in Pomona, Valley Hospital Medical Center, California, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 May 2002
(x) 42-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Six Pack" in Brussel, Theatre Mercelis, Brabant, Belgium.
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