(+) Philosopher and theologian Sören Aabye Kierkegaard is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
195 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 May 1818
(+) Economist Karl Marx is born in Trier, Germany.
192 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 May 1821
(-) War leader Napoleon Bonaparte dies of inner bleedings at the age of 51 in St. Hélène, France.
108 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 May 1905
(-) Murderer Frank Gugleilmo is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Oregon, United States.
99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 May 1914
(+) Actor Tyrone Power is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 May 1942
(+) Musician Tammy Wynette originally Virginia Wynette Pugh aka the First Lady of Country Music, is born in Itawamba County, Mississippi, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 May 1945
(-) Commander of Dachau concentration camp Weiter commits suicide in Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 May 1961
(-) Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
50 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 May 1963
(x) James Henry Audett aka Blackie, is the last prisoner to step out of Alcatraz Prison before its closure in San Francisco, California, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 May 1967
(+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Ernest Miller is born in Illinois, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 May 1973
(x) 250 Die in 2 riverboat collision in Dacca, Bangladesh.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 May 1975
(x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to 60 years imprisonment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 May 1975
(-) SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Siegfried Hausner dies at the age of 23 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
He was severely burned in an unintentional explosion at the West German Embassy in Stockholm where the RAF held several people hostage.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 May 1980
(-) Shelley Dudley aka Valorie Ann Street, is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 19 in Hasbrouck Heights, Quality Inn Motel, Room 132, New Jersey, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 May 1980
(-) Anna Bachmeier is strangled by Klaus Grabowski at the age of 7 in Germany.
He was a previously sentenced and castrated sex-offender.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 May 1980
(-) Valerie Street is tortured to death by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 19 in Hasbrouck Heights Quality Inn, New York, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 May 1981
(-) IRA-member Bobby Robert Gerard Sands dies after 66 days of hungerstriking at the age of 27 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the first to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 May 1981
(x) Start of the trial against 34-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 May 1982
(x) The bomb mailed to Professor Patrick Fisher by 39-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, explodes when opened in the Computer Science Department in Nashville, Vanderbilt University , Tennessee, United States.
One person is injured.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 May 1997
(-) Transvestite Serial Killer Samuel Jacques Coetzee commits suicide by drug-overdose in Boksburg prison, South Africa.
He was accused of killing four men and a boy together with his ex-partner John Frank Brown. He left a note saying he no longer wanted to live.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 May 1999
(-) Multiple murderer Robert Wayne Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
An inmate on death row already, on 4 march 1982, he doused Buster Holsinger, another death row inmate, with Vitalis and set him on fire. Holsinger died as a result of tracheobronchial burns.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 May 1999
(-) Murderer Clydell Coleman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 May 2005
(x) 45-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Noise-Electronics-Computerpunk" in Vladivostok, Art-Klub Premiera, Russia.
6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 May 2007
(x) 114 Die in Kenya Airways Flight 507 Boeing 737-8AL crash in Mbanga Pongo, Kenya.
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