(-) Composer Franz Xaver Schnitzer dies at the age of 44 in Ottobeuren, Germany.
208 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 May 1805
(-) Poet, philosopher, historian and dramatist Friedrich Johann Christoph von Schiller dies of catarre at the age of 45 in Weimar, Sachsen, Germany.
176 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 May 1837
(+) Automobile engineer Adam Opel is born in Rüsselheim, Germany.
153 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 May 1860
(+) Murderer William Kemmler aka John Hurt, is born in New York, United States.
139 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 May 1874
(+) Archaeologist Howard Carter is born in London, Kensington, London City of, United Kingdom.
106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 May 1907
(+) Writer and Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach is born in Weimar, Germany.
101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 May 1912
(+) Actor Pedro Gregorio Hastings Armendariz is born in Mexico City, Mexico.
92 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 May 1921
(+) Leader of The White Rose resistance group Sophie Magdalene Scholl is born in Forchtenberg am Kocher, Germany.
89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 May 1924
(-) Heinz Martin is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 14 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 May 1936
(+) Murderer Zane Hill is born in North Carolina, United States.
75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 May 1938
(+) Serial Killer Carroll Edward Cole aka Silent Rage, is born in Sioux City, Iowa, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 May 1942
(-) Pauline Thompson is strangled by Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, in Melbourne, Spring Street, Australia.
64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 May 1949
(+) Musician Billy Joel is born in the Bronx, New York, United States.
54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 May 1959
(-) Dorothy Pearce is raped and beaten to death by Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy, at the age of 59 in Southlands Beach, Bermudas.
(-) Poet, Playwright and Lesbian Rights Pioneer Mercedes de Acosta dies of a brain tumour at the age of 75 in New York City, New York, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 May 1976
(-) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof commits suicide by hanging at the age of 41 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 719, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
"Selbstmord ist der letzte Akt der Rebellion".
37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 May 1976
(-) Marcella Claxton is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Leeds, Roundhay, Soldiers’ Field, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
She survived.
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 May 1978
(-) Politician Aldo Moro is murdered by the Red Brigades after being kidnapped at the age of 61 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 May 1978
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Yousef al-Shehhi Marwan is born in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 May 1979
(x) 36-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap bomb in a cardboard box in a common area at the Northwestern University Campus in Evanston, Illinois, United States.
One person is injured when opening the package.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 May 1981
(x) 29-year-old IRA-member Joe McDonnel originally Seosamh Mac Domhnaill, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 May 1982
(-) Regina Spielman is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 17 in Dietzenbach, Heusenstamm Wald, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 May 1982
(x) 25-year-old Serial Killer David Edwin Mason beats and garottes his cellmate to death with a towel in Alameda County Jail, California, United States.
He hung the victim from a shower rod to make it look like suicide.
30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 May 1983
(-) Jimmy Roberts is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 18 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 May 1986
(x) The leaders of the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes, Pierre Carette, Bernard Sassoye, Didier Chevolet and Pascale Vandegeerde go hungerstriking in the prisons of St. Gillis and Vorst in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 May 1986
(-) Laurent Bureau is raped and beaten to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, in Perigueux, France.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 May 1986
(-) Mountaineer and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay originally Namgyal Wangdi, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 72 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 May 1987
(x) 183 Die in LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kosciuszko" crash in Warsaw, Poland.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 May 1990
(x) 34 Jewish graves are destroyed, and the freshly buried body of 81-year-old Felix Germon is mutilated with a spear thrust through the chest and rectum by a so-called neo-Nazi commando in Carpentras, France.
Afterwards it turned out to be the work of a group of bored bourgeois kids.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 May 1997
(-) William Reese is shot dead as fourth victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, in Pennsville, Finn’s Point National Cemetary, New Jersey, United States.
His body was found in a lake near Minneapolis a week later.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 May 1997
(-) Sam Arcuri is bludgeoned to death by Daniel Blank at the age of 76 in LaPlace, Texas, United States.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 May 2000
(-) Murderer William Joseph Kitchens is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 May 2001
(x) 129 football fans Die in Accra Sports Stadium stampede in Ghana.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 May 2002
(-) Murderer Reginald Lenard Reeves is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 May 2007
(-) Murderer Philip Workman is executed by lethal injection in Tennessee, United States.
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