(+) Artist Jacopo Pontormo originally Jacopo Carucci, is born in Pontormo, Italy.
(-) Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies of a stroke at the age of 70 in Frombork, Poland.
327 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1686
(+) Physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is born in Gdansk, Poland.
270 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1743
(+) Activist in the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat is born in Boudry, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
194 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1819
(+) Queen Alexandrina Victoria is born in London, Kensington Palace, London City of, United Kingdom.
114 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 1899
(+) Writer and painter Henri Michaux is born in Namur, Namur, Belgium.
104 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1909
(+) Dr. Philip Blaiberg is born in Uniondale, South Africa.
96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 1917
(-) Double Murderer Dr. Arthur Warren Waite is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, United States.
83 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 May 1930
(x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, is arrested in Düsseldorf, Mettmanner Straße, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1935
(-) Murderer Tellie McQuate is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1940
(+) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, is born in Leningrad, Russia.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 May 1941
(+) Musician Bob Dylan originally Robert Zimmerman, is born in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 1945
(+) Actress Priscilla Presley is born in New York, New York, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1954
(+) Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is born in Arizona, United States.
57 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 1956
(+) Rapist and child-murderer Steven Timothy Judy is born in Indiana, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 1972
(x) 3 US-soldiers die and 5 are injured in a German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion bomb attack on the American Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany.
The 15 Juli Commando claims responsability for the attack.
41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 1972
(-) Actress Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen dies at the age of 90 in Frederiksberg, Denmark.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1974
(-) Musician Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington dies of lung cancer at the age of 75 in New York, New York, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 May 1975
(-) Mass-Murderer Russel Smith commits suicide by a shot through the head in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 1982
(x) Suzanne Wagner escapes after being held imprisoned as a sex-slave for over a year by Sex Researcher Dr. Ulrich Kochwald in Regensburg, Germany.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 May 1983
(+) Model and actress Seung-yeon Woo is born in Seoul, South Korea.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1985
(x) Serial Killer Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Frankfurt, Germany.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 May 1987
(x) Almost a million people walk from each side over the Golden Gate Bridge on it’s 50th anniversary festivity-day in San Francisco, California, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 May 1991
(-) Anthony Hughes is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 31 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 2000
(-) Murderer Richard Donald Foster is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 May 2006
(-) Double murderer Jesus Ledesma Aguilar is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 May 2007
(-) Murderer Christopher Newton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Ohio, United States.
It took the medics over 2 hours to find a suitable artery to insert the syringes.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 May 2010
(x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Stephen Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal, is arrested after a CCTV camera caught him shooting 36-year-old prostitute Suzanne Blamires in the head with a crossbow in Bradford, Holmfield Courtflats, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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