(x) 18-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Boston, Fort Independence, Massachusetts, United States.
176 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1837
(+) Gunfighter James Butler Hickok aka Wild Bill Hickok, is born in Troy Grove, Illinois, United States.
173 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1840
(-) Composer Niccolo Paganini dies of a lung bleeding due to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 57 in Nice, France.
163 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 May 1850
(+) Serial Killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, is born in Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
160 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1853
(-) Slave and murderess Jane Elkins is executed by hanging in Dallas, Texas, United States.
She is the first woman to be executed in Texas.
150 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1863
(-) Murderer Claudous C. Frizell is executed by hanging in Fort Scott, Kansas, United States.
122 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 May 1891
(x) 36-year-old Writer Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud has his left leg amputated because of carcinoma in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.
119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1894
(+) Writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches Celine is born in Courbevoie, Asnières, France.
119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1894
(+) Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett is born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, United States.
116 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 May 1897
(-) Beaupied is strangled by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 14 in France.
102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1911
(+) Actor Vincent Leonard Price is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1919
(-) Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1921
(+) Robber, kidnapper and rapist Caryl Whittler Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit, is born in St. Joseph, Michigan, United States.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1922
(+) Actor Christopher Frank Carandini Lee known from “Dracula”, is born in Belgravia, Westminster, United Kingdom.
90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 May 1923
(+) Politician Henry Heinz Alfred Kissinger is born in Fürth, Bayern, Germany.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 May 1940
(-) Murderer Mateo Quinionis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hawaï, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1941
(x) 37-year-old Nazi-leader Richard Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Josef Gabcik and Kan Kubis in Prague, Holesovice, Czechoslowakia.
(+) Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is born in Atlanta, Dixie Hills, Georgia, United States.
53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1960
(+) Reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze, is born in Rochester, Minnesota, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1966
(x) 6 French army-jets crash due to a lack of fuel in Spain.
44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 1969
(-) Darwin Scott is stabbed to death and mutilated by persons unknown at the age of 64 in United States.
He was the brother of Colonel Smith.
35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 May 1978
(-) Eric Christgen is abducted and killed by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 4 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.
20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 May 1993
(x) 5 Die in a Maffia bomb-attack on the famous Uffizi-Museum in Firenze, Italy.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1994
(-) Triple Murderer Charles Campbell is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, United States.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 May 1994
(-) Cop Killer Stephen Ray Nethery is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 May 2003
(-) Composer Luciano Berio dies at the age of 77 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
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