(x) 4-year-old King of France Louis XIV originally Louis-Dieudonné aka The Sun King, becomes King upon the death of his father, Louis XIII in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
181 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 May 1832
(+) Charles Frederick Peace aka The Murderous Musician, is born in Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
157 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 May 1856
(x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the Old Bailey, London, London City of, United Kingdom.
145 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 May 1868
(+) Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld is born in Kolberg, Poland.
116 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 May 1897
(+) Musician Sidney Bechet is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 May 1912
(-) Writer August Johann Strindberg dies of pneumonia at the age of 63 in Stockholm, Sweden.
83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 May 1930
(-) Maria Butlies is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 May 1931
(+) Composer Alvin Lucier is born in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States.
78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 May 1935
(-) Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Nice, France.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 May 1936
(+) Musician Bobby Darin originally Walden Robert Cassotto, is born in The Bronx, New York, United States.
He allegedly chose the name Darin because he had seen a malfunctioning electrical sign at a Chinese restaurant reading "DARIN DUCK" rather than "MANDARIN DUCK".
74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 May 1939
(x) 5-year-old The World’s Youngest Mother Lina Medina gives birth to a son in Lima, Peru.
The boy was named Gerardo after her doctor. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.
73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 May 1940
(-) Feminist and Anarchist Writer Emma Goldman dies of a stroke at the age of 70 in Toronto, Canada.
69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 May 1944
(+) Filmmaker George Lucas is born in Modesto, California, United States.
61 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 May 1952
(+) Musician David Byrne is born in Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 May 1959
(-) Musician Sidney Bechet dies of lung cancer at the age of 62 in Garches, France.
51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 May 1962
(+) Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil aka The Collector, is born in Hainburg an der Donau, Austria.
48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 May 1965
(-) Irena St. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 16 in Grodziek, Poland.
45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 May 1968
(-) Mr Delisse is shot in the head by Nestor Pirotte in Genval, Belgium.
Pirotte, sentenced to death 13 years earlier, was out on parole.
43 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 May 1970
(x) 35-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof assists with Gudrun Ensslin in the escape of Andreas Baader from the Deutschen Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen while on leave from Tegel Prison in Berlin, Dahlem, Miquelstrasse 83, Berlin, Germany.
By following Baader in his jump through the window, Meinhof gave up her intellectual fight and went in the underground. This event marks the official foundation of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 May 1972
(-) National Hero Romas Kalanta aka The Young Man with the Mesmerizing Eyes, commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 19 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
It was a protest against the occupation of Lithuania by the USSR.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 May 1973
(x) 7 members of the Alday family are raped, sodomised, beaten and shot dead by escaped prisoners Wayne Coleman, George Dungee and Carl and Billy Isaacs in Seminole County, Georgia, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 May 1976
(-) Samuel Stapleton is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 14 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 May 1977
(x) Unknown Master’s "Heimkehr des Verlorenen Sohnes" is attacked with acid by 39-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in Lubeck, St. Agidien church, Germany.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 May 1981
(x) 51-year-old Serial Killer David Joseph Carpenter aka The Trailside Killer, is arrested in California, United States.
30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 May 1983
(x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is arrested for drunk driving, while the body of 25-year-old Terry Lee Gambrel was found garotted in the passenger seat in San Diego, Interstate 5, California, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 May 1984
(-) SS-Colonel and inventor of the “Black Raven” mobile gas chambers Walter Rauff dies of lung cancer at the age of 77 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 May 1985
(-) William Doi is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, Monterey Park, California, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 May 1986
(-) Aline Peres is stabbed to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 49 in Brest, France.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 May 1987
(-) Actress Rita Hayworth originally Marguerita Carmen Cansino, dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 68 in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.
25 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 May 1988
(-) Aljoscha Woronko is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 9 in Artjomowsk, Russia.
22 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 May 1991
(-) First Lady of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Qing originally Li Shuméng aka Madame Mao, commits suicide by hanging in her hospital bathroom at the age of 77 in China.
(-) Gangster and kidnapper Patrick Haemers commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 40 in Brussels, Vorst Prison, Brussels, Belgium.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 May 1997
(-) Joan Brock is beaten to death as sixth victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 55 in LaPlace, Texas, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 May 1998
(-) Singer and actor Frank Francis Albert Sinatra aka Ol’ Blue Eyes aka The Voice, dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 May 2003
(-) Actor Robert Langford Modini Stack dies of a heart attack at the age of 84 in Beverley Hills, California, United States.
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