(+) Adventurer and outrageous tale teller Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen is born in Bodenwerder, Germany.
202 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 May 1811
(+) Siamese twin Chang and Eng Bunker are born in Samutsongkram, Thailand.
They were connected through a 15cm thick navelstring.
156 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 May 1857
(-) Villain and later Chief Constable Eugène-François Vidocq dies of the effects of cholera at the age of 81 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
155 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 May 1858
(x) Minnesota becomes the 32nd of the United States in Minnesota, United States.
125 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 May 1888
(+) Composer Irving Berlin originally Israel Isidore Baline, is born in Mogilev, Russia.
119 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 May 1894
(+) Leader of the Dutch Fascist Nationaal Socialistische Beweging Anton Mussert aka Führer of the Netherlands People, is born in Werkendam, Netherlands.
109 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 May 1904
(+) Artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali is born in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain.
97 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 May 1916
(-) Composer Max Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger dies of a heart attack at the age of 43 in Leipzig, Germany.
93 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 May 1920
(-) Millionaire, bridge-expert and womanizer Joseph Browne Elwell is shot dead by persons unknown in New York, 244 West 70th street, New York, United States.
He was shot to death in a room in his home which was found to be locked from the inside.
85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 May 1928
(-) Cop Killer John Leonard Whitfield is shot dead whilst escaping from the Ohio State Penitentiary in Ohio, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 May 1945
(-) Gauleiter of Sudetenland Konrad Henlein commits suicide by cutting his veins with broken glasses at the age of 47 in an allied POW camp in Plzen, Czechoslowakia.
66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 May 1947
(x) 42-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the Arizona State Hospital in Arizona, United States.
It was her third escape, but she was recaptured 12 hours later.
66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 May 1947
(x) 42-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, has her death sentence commuted to life-imprisonment after 20 years in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 May 1958
(+) Son of Marlon, Christian Brando is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.
54 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 May 1959
(x) 54-year-old Actor Peter Lorre originally Ladislav Löwenstein, suffers a heart attack while directing a film in Spain.
53 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 May 1960
(x) 54-year-old Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Israeli Mossad living under the assumed name of Ricardo Klement in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 May 1965
(x) 33-year-old Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, is arrested for tresspassing in Starville, Mississippi, United States.
He was picking flowers on a private property.
47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 May 1966
(-) Genowefa B. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 36 in Lagiza-Nieplieko, Poland.
45 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 May 1968
(-) An unidentified boy is attacked by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, in Newcastle, Scotswood, Delaval Arms, United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 May 1970
(-) Protester George Winne commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 23 in San Diego, University of California, California, United States.
He was protesting the US involvement in the war in Vietnam.
41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 May 1972
(x) A bomb-attack is executed by the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion on the US-army 5th Corps headquarters which kills Lt. Colonel Paul Bloomquist in Frankfurt-am-Main, I.G. Farben Building, Germany.
The Petra Schelm Commando claims responsability for the attack.
38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 May 1975
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Ziad Samir Jarrah is born in Mazraa, Lebanon.
35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 May 1978
(x) Members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Sieglinde Hofmann, Rolf Clemens Wagner and Peter-Jürgen Boock are arrested in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 May 1980
(-) Pamela Weisenfeld is tortured and beaten to death by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 27 in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 May 1981
(-) Musician Bob Robert Nesta Marley dies of lung cancer and a brain tumour at the age of 36 in Miami, Florida, United States.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 May 1983
(-) Dominique Crete is stabbed to death by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 16 in Amiens, France.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 May 1985
(x) 56 Die in soccer-stadium fire in Bradford, United Kingdom.
24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 May 1989
(-) Sascha Djakonow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 8 in Rostow, Kamenka, Russia.
21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 May 1992
(-) Filmmaker & hairdresser Ross Cannon dies of AIDS at the age of 34 in Tasmania.
17 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 May 1996
(x) 110 Die in ValuJet Flight 592 Douglas DC-9 crash in Miami, Florida, United States.
A fire had broken out due to improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold.
(-) Serial Killer Hans Johannes Marinus Van Zon dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 57 in Utrecht, Netherlands.
13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 May 2000
(-) Double murderer Michael Lee McBride is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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