(x) Premiere of 53-year-old Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony in Wien, Wien, Austria.
180 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 May 1833
(+) Composer Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany.
173 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1840
(+) Composer Peter Ilyitsch Tchaikowsky is born in Wotkinsk, Wjatka, Russia.
173 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1840
(-) Artist Caspar David Friedrich dies of a stroke at the age of 65 in Dresden, Germany.
131 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 May 1882
(+) Writer Willem Elsschot originally Alfons-Jozef De Ridder, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
117 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1896
(-) America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Philadelphia, Moyamensing Prison, Pennsylvania, United States.
He was also known as Henry Howard Holmes, D.T. Pratt, Harry Henry Gordon, Edward Hatch, J.A. Judson, Alexander Cook, A.C. Hayes, George Howell, G.D. Hale or Mr. Hall.
112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 May 1901
(+) Actor Gary Cooper originally Frank Cooper, is born in Helena, Montana, United States.
107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 May 1906
(-) Founder of the Bride of Christ Church Edmund Franz Creffield aka Joshua II aka The Mad Prophet, is assassinated by his brother in law, George Mitchell at the age of 35 in Corvallis, Oregon, United States.
99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1914
(-) Black Charley Jones is lynched for stealing a pair of cheap shoes in Grovetown, Missouri, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 May 1915
(x) 1198 Die in RMS Lusitania Liner shipwreck in Ireland.
It was shot by a German SM U-20 U-Boot.
94 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 May 1919
(+) Activist Eva Maria Duarte Peron aka Evita, is born in Los Toldos, Argentina.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1925
(-) Writer and revolutionary terrorist Boris Viktorovich Savinkov commits suicide by jumping out of a window at the age of 46 in Moscow, Lubyanka prison, Moscow (City), Russia.
According to modern publications he was killed by OGPU officers.
81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 May 1932
(-) 13th President of the Third Republic and 14th President of France Paul Doumer is shot dead by Paul Gorgoelov at the age of 75 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
Gorgoelov was a self-proclaimed Russian Fascist.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1942
(x) An unidentified male headless body is fished out of the Seine and presumed to be the first victim of 45-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in St. Louen, France.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1942
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Sigurd Debus is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 May 1946
(-) Leader of the Dutch Fascist Nationaal Socialistische Beweging Anton Mussert aka Führer of the Netherlands People, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 52 in Den Haag, Waalsdorpervlakte, Netherlands.
(+) Manson Family member Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz, is born in San Gabriel, California, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1964
(-) Mass murderer Paula Gonzales commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 27 in San Ramon, California, United States.
He shot both the pilot and the co-pilot of a Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 Fairchild F-27A in the head making the plane crash with another 40 passengers on board.
46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 May 1967
(+) Mass murderer Martin John Bryant is born in Lenah Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 May 1968
(+) Pornographic actress, writer and singer Traci Elizabeth Lords originally Nora Louise Kuzma, is born in Steubenville, Ohio, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 May 1972
(-) Jack Blake is abducted and killed by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 10 in Watertown, New York, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 May 1972
(-) Anita Luchessa is shot dead and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, at the age of 18 in Berkeley, California, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 May 1974
(x) 28-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Velvet Water" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 May 1979
(-) Aristocrat and patient of Sigmund Freud Sergei Konstantonowitch Pankejev aka Der Wolfsmann, dies at the age of 92 in Russia.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1981
(x) 20-year-old Mass-Murderer Lawrence Moore bursts into the Oregon Museum Tavern and opens fire, he shoots 23 people of whom 4 fatally, in Keizer, Oregon, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 May 1982
(x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is discharged from the Mental Health Institute in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 May 1984
(-) David Block is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 22 in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 May 1991
(-) Laurence Guillaume is raped, tortured and strangled by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 15 in Metz, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 May 1992
(-) Murderer Justin Lee May is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 May 1997
(-) Murderer Terry Washington is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 May 2001
(x) 71-year-old The Great Train Robber Ronald “Ronnie” Arthur Biggs returns voluntarily to Britain after being on the run for 25 years in Brazil.
Since then he was in prison until 2009.
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