(-) 237th Pope Alexander VII originally Fabio Chigi, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
230 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1783
(+) Inventor of electromagnets William Sturgeon is born in Whittington, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
(+) Composer Richard Wilhelm Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany.
154 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 May 1859
(+) Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
128 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1885
(-) Writer Victor Marie Hugo dies of pneumonia at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
106 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1907
(+) Actor and filmmaker Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier is born in Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom.
106 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1907
(+) Artist Georges Prosper Remi aka Hergé, is born in Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.
99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1914
(+) Musician Sun Ra originally Herman Poole Blount officially Le Sony’r Ra, is born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 1915
(x) 227 Die in three train collision in Gretna Green, Scotland, United Kingdom.
89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1924
(+) Musician Charles Aznavour originally Shahnour Vaghinagh Aznavourian, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1925
(+) Artist Jean Tinguely is born in Fribourg, Switzerland.
88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1925
(-) Murderer L. W. Peare is executed by hanging at the age of 67 in Oregon, United States.
He went on a moonshine spree and killed his wife among others.
88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1925
(-) Murderer Arthur Covell is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Oregon, United States.
83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1930
(+) Public supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Bernard Milk is born in Woodmere, New York, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1940
(+) Actor Michael Jacques Andre Sarrazin known from “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, is born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1942
(+) Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 May 1951
(+) Serial Killer Kenneth Alessio Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, is born in Rochester, New York, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1957
(-) Wife murderer Leonard Coey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 58 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1957
(+) Murderer John Dennis Daniels is born in North Carolina, United States.
53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 May 1960
(+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Jacqueline Hill is born in the United Kingdom.
51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 May 1962
(-) Robber and mass murderer Thomas G. Doty blows up a Continental Airlines Flight 11 Boeing 707 as an insurance fraud in Unionville, Missouri, United States.
37 other passengers and 7 crew also died in the explosion.
49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1964
(-) Spree killer Reuben Rolle commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 30 in Nassau, Bahamas.
He first shot 6 people in the Grove Club.
46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 May 1967
(x) 252 Die in L’Innovation department store fire in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
The fire inspired the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe to use this kind of disaster as a terrorist action, something they would actually do less than a year later.
45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 1968
(x) 99 Die in USS Scorpion nuclear submarine shipwreck in the Atlantic.
43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1970
(+) Fashion Model Naomi Campbell is born in Streatham, South London, London City of, United Kingdom.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 1971
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, marries Paula Dietz in Park City, Kansas, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 May 1972
(x) Ceylon adopts a new constitution and changes its name to Sri Lanka .
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 May 1972
(+) Triple murderer Riley Dobi Noel is born in Arkansas, United States.
35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 May 1978
(-) Mafia-leader Joseph “Joe” Colombo dies after vegetating for seven years after being shot in the head at the age of 63 in New York, Blooming Grove, New York, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1980
(-) Leslie O’Dell is tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 18 in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, United States.
They spent 3 hours of rape and sexual torture in room 117 of the Quality Inn Motel, Cottingham was arrested later that day.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1981
(x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is convicted to life-imprisonment for killing 13 women in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1981
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is questioned by the police near the Chattahoochee River where three days later the body of 27-year-old Nathaniel Cater was found in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1981
(x) 25-year-old IRA-member Kieran Doherty originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 1982
(-) Angela Marks is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.
26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1987
(-) Murderer Richard Tucker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 May 1990
(-) Boxer Rocky Graziano originally Thomas Rocco Barbella, dies of cardiopulmonary failure at the age of 71 in New York City, New York, United States.
21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1992
(-) Murder-instigator Robert Black is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
He hired John Wayne Hearn to kill his wife Sandra.
21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 May 1992
(x) 66-year-old TV-host Johnny Carson presents his last show on NBC in Hollywood, California, United States.
For the last time America heard "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!".
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1997
(-) Poet Herman De Coninck dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Lissabon, Portugal.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 May 1997
(-) Murderer Larry White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 May 2002
(-) Murderer Johnny Joe Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 May 2007
(-) Murderer Robert Comer is executed by lethal injection in Arizona, United States.
3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 May 2010
(x) 158 Die in Air India Express Flight IX-812 Boeing 737-800 crash in Bajpe Airport, Mangalore, India.
Seven people survived. The plane skidded off the landing strip because the pilot fell asleep.
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