(-) Pope Sylvester II originally Gerbert d’Aurillac, dies at the age of 53 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
1001 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1012
(-) Pope Sergius IV originally Pietro Martino Buccaporci, dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.
193 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 May 1820
(+) Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp, is born in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
171 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 May 1842
(+) Composer Jules Emile Fréderic Massenet is born in Montaud, France.
143 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 May 1870
(-) Johannes Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, at the age of 1 in Netherlands.
121 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 May 1892
(-) Sex Murderer Etienne Deschamps is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
120 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 May 1893
(-) Murderer John Carlisle is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Texas, United States.
118 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 May 1895
(+) Religious leader Jiddu Krishnamurti is born in Madanapalle, Chitoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India.
118 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 May 1895
(-) Adele Mortureux is murdered by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 17 in France.
116 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 May 1897
(+) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.
106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 May 1907
(+) Actress Katherine Houghton Hepburn is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 May 1907
(-) Satanist writer Joris-Karl Huysmans originally Charles-Marie-Georges, dies of cancer of the mouth at the age of 59 in Paris, a benedict monastery, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
95 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 May 1918
(+) American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg is born in New York, New York, United States.
92 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 May 1921
(+) Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys is born in Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
92 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 May 1921
(+) Murderer Charles Sanders is born in Arizona, United States.
89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 May 1924
(+) Actor and comedian Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock is born in Birmingham, 23 Railway Cuttings, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
(+) Composer Burt Freeman Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 May 1932
(-) Charles Lindbergh Jr is found dead after presumably being kidnapped by Bruno Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, at the age of 1 in the wood near Hopewell Mansion, New Jersey, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1936
(-) Parsi Doctor and murderer Buck Ruxton is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1936
(+) Television personality Tom Thomas James Snyder is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1936
(+) Artist Frank Stella is born in Malden, Massachusetts, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1942
(+) Musician Ian Dury is born in Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 May 1947
(+) Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Georg von Rauch is born in Marburg-an-der-Lahn, Germany.
62 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 May 1951
(x) First US hydrogen-bomb-test in Eniwetok, the Pacific Ocean.
60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1953
(x) First USSR hydrogen-bomb-test.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 May 1957
(-) Actor and filmmaker Erich Oswald von Stroheim aka The Man You Love to Hate, dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Maurepas, France.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 May 1972
(x) A bomb-attack is executed by the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion on the Bundeskriminalamt, destroying 60 cars in the parking lot in München, Bayern, Germany.
The Tommy Weissbecker Commando claims responsability for the attack.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 May 1973
(-) Child murderer Ali Benyanes is executed by the Guillotine in Marseille, Baumettes Prison, Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1981
(-) IRA-member Francis Hughes originally Proinsias O hAodha, dies after 59 days of hungerstriking at the age of 31 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the second to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1981
(-) Dzung Ngoc Tu is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 25 in Cornell, New York, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 May 1982
(x) 62-year-old 264th Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Jozef Wojtila, is stabbed with a bajonet by 32-year-old artist Juan Fernandez Krohn in Fatima, Portugal.
29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 May 1984
(x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, has his second death-sentence commuted to life-imprisonment in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.
28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 May 1985
(-) Artist and Art Brut-pioneer Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet dies at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 May 1987
(-) Spree Killer Michel Van Den Wijnendale aka The Mad Cyclist, commits suicide by a shot through the head in Bogaarden, Brabant, Belgium.
He was closed in by the police after he shot dead 90-year-old Jean Baptiste and 84 Margriet Nechelput, 54-year-old Edgard, 46-year-old Liliane and 20-year-old Christian De Crem and 37-year-old Marie-Therese and 3-year-old Ludovic De Rijck.
24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 May 1989
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is found guilty on 18 counts of murder in Orange County, West County Municipal Courts building, California, United States.
20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 May 1993
(-) Cop Killer Leonel Herrera is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 May 1997
(-) Serial Killer Dimitris Vakrinos commits suicide by hanging in prison at the age of 36 in Greece.
The former taxi driver was hanging by the neck from shoelaces tied to a shower head.
12 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 May 2001
(-) Musician Perry Pierino Ronald Como dies in his sleep at the age of 89 in Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida, United States.
12 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 May 2001
(-) Aircraft designer Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev dies at the age of 76 in Russia.
7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 May 2006
(x) over 200 Die in oil pipeline explosion in Atlas Creek, Lagos, Nigeria.
Illegal oil traders tried to steal oil from the pipeline by drilling a hole in it.
5 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 May 2008
(-) Artist Robert Milton Ernst Rauschenberg dies of heart failure after a personal decision to go off life support at the age of 82 in Captiva, Florida, United States.
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 May 2010
(-) Mass murderer Wu Huanming commits suicide by hanging at the age of 48 in Hanzhong, Nanzheng, Shaanxi, China.
Earlier he hacked seven children and two adults to death with a meat cleaver in the Shengshui Temple kindergarten.
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 May 2010
(x) 100 Die in Al Afriqiyah Airways Flight 8U771 Airbus-A330 crash in Tripoli, Libya.
An 8-year-old Dutch boy survived the crash with minor injuries.
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