Saturday, August 31, 2013

65 Years Ago He Didn't Play a White Punk on Dope

2001 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 12
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Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula is born in Antium, Italy.

591 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1422
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0-year-old King of England Henry VI succeeds to the throne at the age of 9 months upon the death of his father in Windsor, United Kingdom.

146 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1867
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Writer Charles Pierre Baudelaire aka The Flower of Evil, dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 46 in Paris, France.

125 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1888
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Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, is ripped open from groin to chest and her throat slashed as first victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 43 in London, Whitechapel, Buck’s Row, United Kingdom.

118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1895
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Victor Portalier is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 17 in France.

107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1906
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Wilhelm Schulze is born in Coolshorn, Germany.

85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1928
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Actor James Harrison Coburn is born in Laurel, Nebraska, USA.

84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1929
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Sofie Ruck is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 August 1933
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Philosopher Theodor Lessing is murdered by the SS at the age of 61 in Marienbad, Czechoslowakia.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1934
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Murderer Louis Sprague Douglas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 47 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1935
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Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver is born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA.

77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 August 1936
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Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill, is born in Paris, France.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 August 1944
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Murderer George C Mercer aka Tiny, is born in Missouri, USA.

65 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 August 1948
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31-year-old Actor Robert Charles Durman Mitchum is arrested for smoking marihuana in Laurel Canyon, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1949
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Actor Richard Gere is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1955
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Multiple Murderer Lester Edward Bartholomew is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
He killed his wife, 3-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter

50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1963
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Artist Georges Braque dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.

47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1966
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96 Die in British airliner crash in Belgrado, Yugoslavia.

47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1966
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Murderer Michael E. Sexton is born in North Carolina, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 August 1969
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Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, is born in California, USA.

40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1973
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Filmmaker John Ford dies of stomach cancer at the age of 78 in Palm Desert, California, USA.

32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 August 1981
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The German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion bomb the Nato-headquarters in Ramstein, Germany.

31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 August 1982
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Konrad Mayer is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 26 in Bordeaux, France.

30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1983
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Ralph Calise is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 28 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1985
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25-year-old Serial Killer Richard ‘Ricky’ Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is recognized and chased by the Hispanic community, beaten up and finally arrested by a patrolman named Ramirez in East Los Angeles, Hubbard Street, California, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 August 1986
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423 Die in Admiral Nakhinov passenger liner and Pyotr Vasev bulk carrier collision in the Black Sea.

27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 August 1986
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Artist Henry Spencer Moore dies at the age of 88 in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 August 1987
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83 Die in Thai Airlines Boeing crash in Phuket, Thailand.

23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1990
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Murderer George Gilmore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.

20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 August 1993
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Murderer Richard Wilkerson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 August 1995
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Kidnapper and murderer Barry Lee Fairchild is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Grady, Varner Unit, Arkansas, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 August 1997
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Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, dies in a car crash at the age of 36 in Paris, Cours Albert 1er underpass, France.
In the same vehicle also her lover Dodi Al Fayed, and the french driver, Henri Paul, were killed. The Mercedes S280 was leaving from the Ritz Hotel, tailed by a bunch of photographers on motorcycles. The vehicle crashed at a presumed 150 kph in a tunnel under the Seine river.

12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 2001
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Murderer Ronald W. Frye is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

11 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 2002
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Musician Lionel Leo Hampton dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 94 in New York, New York, USA.

8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 2005
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1199 Die in Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad, Iraq.

8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 2005
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45-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Vel" with Tim Vanhamel in Borgerhout, Factor 44, Antwerpen, Belgium.

7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 August 2006
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Double murderer Derrick Frazier is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 August 2009
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Artist Barry Flanagan dies of motor neurone disease at the age of 68 in Ibiza, Spain.

Friday, August 30, 2013

95 Years Ago She Gave No Details From Whom She Obtained the Revolver to Shoot the Traitor to the Revolution

832 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 August 1181
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170th Pope Alexander III originally Rolando Bandinelli, dies at the age of 81 in Civita Castellana, Italy.

265 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1748
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Artist Jacques-Louis David is born in Paris, France.

216 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 1797
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Writer Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley is born in London, United Kingdom.

163 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1850
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Murderer John White Webster is executed by hanging in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

130 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 August 1883
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Artist and founder of De Stijl Theo Van Doesburg is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 August 1898
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Murderer Carl J. Folk is born in Arizona, USA.

95 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1918
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Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is shot in the left shoulder and jaw by Fanya Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin, at the age of 48 in Moscow, Russia.
"My name is Fanya Kaplan. Today I shot at Lenin. I did it on my own. I will not say from whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details. I had resolved to kill Lenin long ago. I consider him a traitor to the Revolution."

78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1935
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Writer Henri Barbusse dies at the age of 62 in Moscow, Russia.

76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 1937
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Race-car designer and driver Bruce Leslie McLaren is born in Auckland, New Zealand.

74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 1939
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BBC Dj John Peel originally Kohn Robert Parker Ravelscroft, is born in Heswell, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 1948
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Deputy Chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

64 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 August 1949
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Musician Peter Maffay originally Peter Alexander Makkay, is born in Brasov, Romania.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1963
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34-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested whilst burglarizing a store in Maitland, Missouri, USA.

46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 1967
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Artist Ad Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt dies at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 1969
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Helen Puttock is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 29 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 1969
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Irena W. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 34 in Katowice, Poland.
She survived.

43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 August 1970
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Amateur filmmaker of the President Kennedy assassination Abraham Zapruder dies of stomach cancer at the age of 65 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 1971
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Bomb attacks by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Office of California Prisons in retaliation for the killing of Black Activist George Jackson in Sacramento and San Francisco, California, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1974
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153 Die in Belgrade-Dortmund Express train derailment in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 1975
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28-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is baptised in the Church of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 August 1977
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Mary Gregsten is strangled by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Shipley, Saltaire Canal Towpath, United Kingdom.

32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 August 1981
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President Ali Rajah and prime minister Mohammed Bahonar are killed in a bomb attack in Teheran, Iran.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 1982
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Spree killer Kip Kipland Philip Kinkel is born in Springfield, Oregon, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 1986
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82 Die in Aeromexico Douglas DC-9 and Piper PA-28 collision in Cerritos, California, USA.

22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1991
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Artist Jean Tinguely dies of heart-failure at the age of 66 in Bern, Switzerland.

19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 August 1994
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Filmmaker and leading light of the Free Cinema Lindsay Gordon Anderson dies at the age of 71 in Angoulème, France.

18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 1995
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Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison dies of lymphoma at the age of 53 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 2000
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Multiple murderer Jeffery Henry Caldwell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He killed his parents and his sister in 1988.

10 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 2003
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Actor Charles Bronson originally Charles Dennis Buchinski, dies of pneumonia at the age of 80 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 2004
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Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges dies of a heart disease at the age of 70 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 August 2007
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The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 58-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, USA.
It was her 18th unsuccessful application.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

75 Years Ago Kletterte Er auf der Bühne des Orgien-Mysterien-Theaters

1984 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 29
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John The Baptist is executed by beheading in Samaria, Israël.

214 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1799
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250th Pope Pius VI originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi, dies at the age of 81 in Valence, France.

151 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1862
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Poet and writer Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

142 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 August 1871
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The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater is born in Maryland, USA.

136 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 1877
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Mormon prophet Brigam Young aka The American Moses, dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

119 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 1894
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Murderer Albert Bruneau aka The Murderous Priest, is executed by the Guillotine in Laval, France.

106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1907
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75 workers Die in Quebec Bridge collapse during construction in Quebec, Canada.

98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1915
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Actress Ingrid Bergmann is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

97 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 August 1916
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Over 1000 Die in Hsin Yu shipwreck in China.

93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1920
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Musician Charlie Charles Jr. Parker aka “Bird”, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

90 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 1923
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Actor Richard Attenborough is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 1928
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Murderer Gerard Toal is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Dublin, Ireland.

83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1930
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Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism, dies at the age of 86 in Oxford, United Kingdom.

78 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1935
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Queen of Belgium Astrid originally Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra of Sweden, dies in a car crash at the age of 29 in Küßnacht, Switzerland.

75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 August 1938
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Artist Hermann Nitsch the Viennese Actionist, is born in Vienna, Austria.

70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1943
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Murderess Mildred Mary Bolton commits suicide by cutting her wrists with a pair of scissors at the age of 57 in Dwight, Women’s penitentiary, Illinois, USA.

65 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1948
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Nancy Chadwick is battered to death by Margaret Allen aka ‘Bill’, in the United Kingdom.
“In one of my funny moods.”

55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1958
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Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, is born in Gary, Indiana, USA.

54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 August 1959
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Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, rapes an unidentified girl in Grouville, Jersey.

45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1968
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Murderer William Quentin Jones is born in North Carolina, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1969
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40-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Albert Price for sodomizing an unidentified 5-year-old boy in San Francisco, California, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1969
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Glenda Harden is stabbed to death by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, at the age of 21 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1971
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Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Puerto Rico.

31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1982
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Actress Ingrid Bergmann dies of breast cancer at the age of 67 in London, United Kingdom.

31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1982
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Terry Milligan is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.

26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 August 1987
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Actor Lee Marvin dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

21 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 August 1992
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Psychotherapist and philosopher Pierre-Félix Guattari dies at the age of 62 in Cour-Cheverny, La Borde Clinic, France.

17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1996
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141 Die in Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 Tupolev Tu-154 crash in Spitsbergen, Norway.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

10 Years Ago He Delivered His Last Pizza

264 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 August 1749
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Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

189 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 August 1824
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Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, is born in Rugely, United Kingdom.

114 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 August 1899
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Actor Charles Boyer is born in Figéac, Lot, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

110 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 August 1903
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Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim is born in Vienna, Austria.

100 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 August 1913
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Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer, is born in Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.

97 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 August 1916
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Germany declares war on Romania and Italy declares war on Germany in World War I.

71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 August 1942
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Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison is born in East Meadow, New York, USA.

70 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 August 1943
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Actor and musician David Soul is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 August 1962
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Former 25-year-old beauty-queen Hajna De Kaplany is stabbed and soaked in nitric acid by her husband, 36-year-old Acid Murderer Dr. Geza De Kaplany who wanted to deprave her of her beauty and warn her against adultery in San José, 1135 Ranchero Way, Apertment 30, California, USA.
Hajna’s body was for 40% covered with 3rd degree burns and she died only after 33 days of agonizing pain.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 August 1969
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William Freeman is abducted and strangled by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 12 in Antioch, California, USA.

31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 August 1982
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Kase Lee is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.

29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 August 1984
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Sasha Tschepelja is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Rostow, near Pension Stiller Don, Russia.

28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 August 1985
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Inessa Guljajewa is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, busstation, Russia.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 August 1987
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48-year-old Cult leader Park Soon-Ja is beaten to death by 45-year-old Lee Kyung-Soo, who also strangled 30 other members of the sect in Seoul, South Korea.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 August 1987
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Aljoscha Chobotow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, main cemetary, Russia.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 August 1987
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Filmmaker John Marcellus Huston dies of emphysema at the age of 81 in Middletown, Rhode Island, USA.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 August 1987
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Triple murderer Pierre Dale Selby aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Draper State Prison, Utah, USA.

25 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 August 1988
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67 Die when two Aermacchi MB-339 PAN jets from the Italian Air Force display team, Frecce Tricolori, crash into each other while performing their Cardioide or "pierced heart" in Ramstein Airbase, Germany.

17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 August 1996
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35-year-old Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, divorces from Prince Charles in London, United Kingdom.
She received a settlement of around 17 million British Pounds.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 August 2002
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Triple murderer Toronto Markkey Patterson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 August 2003
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Brian Douglas Wells aka The Human Pizza Delivery Bomb, is killed by a time bomb device fastened around his neck by supposed bank robbers at the age of 46 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.
Afterwards it turned out he was involved in the plot.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 August 2006
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Serial Killer Frans Hooymayers aka Brother Death, dies at the age of 70 in Kerkrade, the Netherlands.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

75 Years Ago She Danced the Night on Fire

423 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1590
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227th Pope Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.

243 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1770
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Philosopher George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born in Stuttgart, Germany.

142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1871
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Writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser is born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.

123 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 August 1890
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Artist Man Ray originally Emmanuel Radnitzky, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

120 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1893
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Inventor of the typewriter Peter Mitterhofer dies at the age of 70 in Partschins, Tirol, Germany.

118 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 August 1895
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Allaise is stabbed to death by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 16 in France.

107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1906
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Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, is born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.

105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 August 1908
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36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson is born in Stonewall, Texas, USA.

104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 August 1909
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Murderer Joseph Gauvette is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, USA.

103 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 August 1910
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Humanitarian nun Mother Teresa originally Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, is born in Skopje, Macedonia.

94 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 August 1919
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Artist Jan Cox is born in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 August 1929
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Writer Ira Levin is born in New York, the Bronx, New York, USA.

75 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 August 1938
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Phyllis Newcombe is badly burned by spontaneous human combustion at the age of 22 in Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom.
She was waltzing in the Shire dance-hall when she suddenly caught fire. She died three weeks later.

67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 August 1946
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Serial Killer Peter Britton Tobin is born in Johnstone, Scotland, United Kingdom.

59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 August 1954
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Double Murderer James David Autry aka Cowboy, is born in Texas, USA.

58 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 August 1955
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Black Emmett Louis Till aka Bobo, is abducted from his home, beaten, shot and thrown in a river with a weight around his neck for whistling at a white woman at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, USA.

49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 August 1964
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15-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, shoots his grandparents “wondering how it would feel to shoot grandma” in California, USA.

49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 August 1964
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Serial Killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 August 1966
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Architect Charles Eduard Jeanneret Le Corbusier dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Cap Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
He went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and was found by bathers.

46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1967
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Beatles manager Brian Samuel Epstein dies of alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 32 in London, United Kingdom.

44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 August 1969
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Helga Luther is mutilated and her throat cut by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 16 in Coburg, Germany.

41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1972
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Sailor Francis Chichester dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 August 1975
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Emperor Haile Selassie originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge’ez aka The Lion of Juda, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 83 in Ethiopia.

35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1978
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Artist Gordon Matta-Clark dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 35 in New York, New York, USA.

34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1979
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Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten is killed in an IRA bomb-attack on his yacht at the age of 79 in Mullaghmore, Ireland.
A few hours later 18 British soldiers are killed in another attack in Warrenpoint

34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1979
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Donald Hyden is sodomised, strangled and stabbed by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Attempts had been made to cut off his testicles.

31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 August 1982
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Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, assaults and rapes an unidentified man and woman in Troyes, France.

31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 August 1982
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Charles Petit is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 19 in Beaufort, France.

26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 August 1987
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An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, Russia.

18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1995
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35-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Marteling van de Heilige Erasmus" in Leuven, Kapel van de Romaanse Poort, Brabant, Belgium.

Monday, August 26, 2013

115 Years Ago the Bohémienne Was Bound for Billionaire

2068 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 August 55bc
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Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar invades Britain.

275 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1738
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Forger William Newington is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.

270 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 August 1743
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Scientist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is born in Paris, France.

222 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 August 1791
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Murderer Whiting Sweeting is executed by hanging in Stephentown, New York, USA.

217 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 August 1796
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Murderer Emmanuel Claus is executed by the Guillotine in Gent, Place de la Liberté, East Flanders, Belgium.
He was the first man to be executed by the Guillotine in Belgium.

168 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1845
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Victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, is born in London, Dawes Court, United Kingdom.

140 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1873
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Murderer Thomas Hartley Montgomery is executed by hanging in Omagh Prison, Ireland.

137 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 August 1876
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Mutineer and murderer Emmanuel Christos Bombas is executed by hanging in Cork County, Ireland.

134 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1879
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Murderer John Ralph is executed by hanging in Warwick, United Kingdom.

133 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 August 1880
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Writer Guillaume Apollinaire originally Wilhelm Appolinaris Albertus Kostrowitsky, is born in Rome, Italy.

129 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1884
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Murderer of his wife and four children Joseph Laycock is executed by hanging in Leeds, Armley Gaol, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

129 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1884
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Murderer James Tobin is executed by hanging in Wexford County, Ireland.

126 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 August 1887
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Wife-murderer W. Wilton is executed by hanging in Lewes, United Kingdom.

122 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 August 1891
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Wife-murderer Edward H. F. Watts is executed by hanging in Winchester, United Kingdom.

115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 August 1898
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Art collector Peggy Marguerite Guggenheim is born in New York, New York, USA.

99 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 August 1914
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Writer Julio Florencio Cortázar is born in Brussels, Ixelles, Argentina Embassy, Brabant, Belgium.

93 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 August 1920
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Murderer J. C. Levice is born in Arizona, USA.

76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 August 1937
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Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Vera Evelyn Millward is born in the United Kingdom.

69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 August 1944
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Musician Maureen Ann Tucker aka “Moe”, is born in Levittown, New York, USA.

68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 August 1945
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Writer Franz Werfel dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.

63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 August 1950
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Automobile industry pioneer Ransom Eli Olds dies at the age of 86 in Lansing, Michigan, USA.

54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 August 1959
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Twelfth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Anthony Hughes is born in Wisconsin, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1969
(-)
Jerome Shea aka Shorty, is tortured to death and cut to pieces by The Manson Family at the age of 40 in California, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 August 1970
(x)
25-year-old Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder marries Ingrid Caven in Feldkirchen, Germany.

41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 August 1972
(x)
35-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is released from prison on bail after being charged with child-abuse in Pennsylvania, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 August 1974
(-)
Aviation pioneer Charles Augustus Lindbergh aka The Lone Eagle, dies of lymphoma at the age of 72 in Maui, Hawaï.

35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 August 1978
(-)
Actor Charles Boyer commits suicide by an overdose of Seconal at the age of 79 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
He committed suicide two days after his wife, British actress Pat Paterson, died from cancer.

33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1980
(-)
Animation artist Frederick “Tex” Bean Avery dies of lung cancer at the age of 72 in Burbank, California, USA.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 August 1983
(x)
36-year-old Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is sentenced to die for four murders throughout Orange County in California, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1986
(-)
Murderer Chester Wicker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 August 1998
(-)
Murderer Genaro R. Camacho is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 August 2000
(x)
66-year-old Murderer Reggie Kray aka The Profession of Violence, is released from prison on compassionate reasons in Norfolk, Wayland Prison, United Kingdom.

9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 August 2004
(-)
Murderer James Alldridge III is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

95 Years Ago it Was Some Story in the West Side

743 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1270
(-)
Saint King Louis IX dies of typhoid fever at the age of 55 in Tunis, Algeria.

483 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1530
(+)
Grand Prince Ivan IV Vasilyevich aka Ivan the Terrible, is born in Moscow, USSR.

194 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 1819
(+)
Detective Allan Pinkerton is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

168 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1845
(+)
The Mad King of Bavaria, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig II is born in Nymphenburg Palace, Germany.

146 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1867
(-)
Physicist Michael Faraday dies at the age of 75 in Hampton Court, Surrey, United Kingdom.

113 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 August 1900
(-)
Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche dies due to a physical and psychic collaps at the age of 55 in Weimar, Germany.

106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1907
(x)
32-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is judged insane and locked up in an asylum in France.

101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1912
(+)
Architect of East Germany Erich Honecker is born in Neunkirchen, Saarland, Germany.

95 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1918
(+)
Composer Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachussets, USA.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1929
(-)
Klara Wanders is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 26 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She survived.

83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1930
(+)
Actor Sean Connery is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 August 1938
(+)
Writer Frederick Forsyth is born in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.

67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1946
(x)
18-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is arrested and charged with first degree robbery in Albany, Ontario Street, New York, USA.

59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 1954
(+)
Musician Elvis Costello originally Declan Patrick McManus, is born in London, United Kingdom.

58 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 August 1955
(x)
26-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for auto theft in Orrick, Missouri, USA.

57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 August 1956
(-)
Sexuologist Alfred Charles Kinsey dies of heart disease and pneumonia at the age of 62 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 August 1956
(x)
A huge number of books, journals and papers of 59-year-old Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich are burned by FDA officials in the 25th Street Gansevoort public incinerator in New York, New York, USA.

48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 1965
(-)
Genowefa L. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 28 in Bedzin, Poland.

46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 August 1967
(-)
Founder of the American Nazi-party George Lincoln Rockwell aka The American Hitler, is shot dead by John Patler at the age of 49 in Arlington, Econowash laundromat, Dominion Hills Shopping Center, Virginia, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1969
(-)
Leila Jackson is strangled and mutilated by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 August 1970
(+)
Model Claudia Schiffer is born in Rheinberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 August 1984
(-)
Writer Truman Capote originally Truman Streckfus Persons, dies of liver disease complicated by drug abuse at the age of 59 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 August 1992
(-)
An unidentified black policeman commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 8 people in a random shooting-spree in a police-station, South Africa.

9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 2004
(-)
Double murderer Jason Shane Busby is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 2004
(x)
The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 55-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, USA.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

70 Years Ago a Soldiers' Ration Proved not to be Sufficient

1934 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 August 79
(x)
Mount Vesuvius erupts and covers the cities of Pompeï, Herculaneum and Stabiae in Italy.

243 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1770
(-)
Writer and forger Thomas Chatterton commits suicide by arsenic poisoning at the age of 17 in Holborn, Brooke Street, United Kingdom.

138 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1875
(x)
32-year-old Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel from Dover to Calais in France.

118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1895
(-)
Mme Morand is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 58 in France.

98 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1915
(+)
Science fiction writer Alice Bradley Sheldon aka James Tiptree, Jr., is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 August 1919
(+)
Musician Beny Moré aka El Barbaro Del Ritmo, originally Bartolome Maximilliano, is born in Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba.

90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1923
(-)
Heinrich Struß is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Germany.

90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1923
(-)
Murderer Dan Casey is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Oregon, USA.

84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1929
(-)
5-year-old Gertrude Hamacher and 14-year-old Louize Lenzen are strangled and their throats cut by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1929
(+)
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat originally Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, is born in Cairo, Egypt.

74 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 August 1939
(-)
Frank Dolezal commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Jail, Ohio, USA.
He was suspected of being the Mad Butcher of Cleveland and badly beaten to force a confession.

73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1940
(+)
Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald is born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA.

70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1943
(-)
Philosopher Simone Weil dies of cardiac failure due to anorexia nervosa at the age of 34 in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 August 1944
(+)
Television reporter Christine Chubbuck is born in Hudson, Ohio, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1962
(-)
Cop Killer James Duke is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.

36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 August 1977
(x) Rubens
"Albrecht von Österreich" is attacked with acid by 39-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in Düsseldorf, Kunstmuzeum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 August 1981
(x)
26-year-old Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, is sentenced to 20 years to life in Manhattan, Criminal Court, New York, USA.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1984
(x)
The Texas School Book Depository, from where Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, presumably operated, is destroyed by arson in Dallas, Texas, USA.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1985
(-)
William Carns and Erickson are shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 29 in Mission Viejo, California, USA.
Erickson survived.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 August 1987
(-)
Rapist and murderer Sterling Rault is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 36 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 August 1987
(-)
Supposed Robol scientist Edward Moolenbeek dies in the United Kingdom.
In fact Moolenbeek was a fictional character created by The Hafler Trio.

20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1993
(-)
Murderer Ruben Montoya Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 26 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
His final request was for a piece of bubble gum, which was denied.

20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1993
(-)
Serial Killer David Edwin Mason is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 36 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
While being held in county jail awaiting trial, he killed his cellmate. He was the last man to die in San Quentin's Gas Chamber.

19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 August 1994
(x)
Fifth bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Klagenfurth, Austria.
A five kg percel-bomb is found near the Rennerschule, it explodes while 3 policemen are transporting it to the airport for closer examination, all three are injured.

12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 2001
(-)
Murderer Clifton Allen White is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 August 2006
(-)
Murderer Justin Chaz Fuller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, August 23, 2013

115 Years Ago Pornocrates ne Buvait Plus d'Absinthe

259 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 August 1754
(+)
King Louis XVI aka Louis-Auguste de France, is born in Versailles, France.

115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 August 1898
(-)
Artist Félicien Rops aka The Satanic Eroticist, dies at the age of 65 in Essones, France.

101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 August 1912
(+)
Actor Gene Eugene Curran Kelly is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 August 1926
(-)
Actor and Great Lover Rudolph Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmo Valentino dies of peritonitis, gastric ulcer, pneumonia and an infection of the inner heart at the age of 31 in New York, New York, USA.

86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 August 1927
(-)
Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti are executed by Old Sparky in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
They were convicted to death for a robbery-murder, rather due to their anarchist insights than through evidence.

83 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 August 1930
(+)
Actress Vera Miles is born in Boise City, Oklahoma, USA.

77 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 August 1936
(+)
Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, is born in Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA.

69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 August 1944
(x)
61 Die in USAF B-24 Liberator bomber crash in Freckleton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
The aircraft crashed into a school and the "Sad Sack Snack Bar" where 7 Americans died.

67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 August 1946
(+)
The Who’s Drummer Keith John Moon is born in London, United Kingdom.

64 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 August 1949
(+)
Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, is born in Altadena, California, USA.

61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 August 1952
(+)
Gangster Yvan Somville is born in Gembloux, Namur, Belgium.

43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 August 1970
(+)
Actor River Jude Phoenix is born in Metolius, Oregon, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 August 1974
(-)
Cathie Pearce is strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Musella, Florida, USA.

38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 August 1975
(x)
19-year-old Musician Ian Kevin Curtis from Joy Division, marries 18-year-old Deborah Woodruff in Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 August 1981
(-)
Didier Vitry is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 18 in La Rochelle, France.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 August 1982
(+)
Juvenile murderer Robert Thompson is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 August 1982
(-)
Andrea Kowe is raped, stabbed and beaten to death by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 23 in Besançon, France.

24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 August 1989
(-)
Psychiatrist Ronald David Laing dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in St. Tropez, France.

18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 August 1995
(-)
An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks are abducted and killed by Marc Dutroux at the age of 18 in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 August 2000
(-)
Murderer David Earl Gibbs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 August 2000
(x)
143 Die in Gulf Air Flight 072 Airbus A320 crash in Manama, Bahrein.

8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 August 2005
(-)
Murderer Robert Alan Jr. Shields is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 August 2006
(x)
18-year-old Victim of Wolfgang Priklopil Natascha Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar, escapes after being held in captivity for over 8 years by Wilhelm Priklopil in Strasshof an der Nordbahn, Heinestrasse 60, Austria.

7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 August 2006
(-)
Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil aka The Collector, commits suicide by throwing himself before a commuter train at the age of 44 in Vienna, Northern Station, Austria.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 August 2007
(-)
Multiple murderer Hifumi Takezawa is executed by hanging at the age of 69 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 August 2007
(-)
Murderer Yoshio Iwamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 63 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 August 2007
(-)
Murderer Kozo Segawa is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Nagoya, Japan.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

85 Years Ago Landete Er vom Planeten Sirius

772 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1241
(-)
178th Pope Gregorius IX originally Ugolino del Conti, dies at the age of 98 in Rome, Italy.

733 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1280
(-)
188th Pope Nicholas III originally Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.

253 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1760
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252nd Pope Leo XII originally Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga, is born in Genga, Italy.

151 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1862
(+)
Composer Claude Achille Debussy is born in St. Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France.

122 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 August 1891
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Artist Jacques Chaim Jacob Lipchitz is born in Druskininkaï, Lithuania, Russia.

111 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1902
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Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl is born in Berlin, Germany.

105 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 August 1908
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Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is born in Chanteloup, France.

93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 August 1920
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Science Fiction writer Ray Bradbury known for “Fahrenheit 451”, is born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA.

91 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1922
(-)
Black Parks Blanks is lynched after a verbal disagreement with a Ku-Klux-Klan member in Yazoo-City, Missouri, USA.

85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 August 1928
(+)
Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is born in Modrath, Germany.

85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 August 1928
(x)
58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for petty larceny in Manhattan, New York, USA.

61 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1952
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Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1961
(x) Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry
attempts to assassinate 70-year-old President of France Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle in Petit-Clamart, France.

52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1961
(-)
Michael Gregsten is presumably attacked and shot by James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer, at the age of 36 in Deadman’s Hill, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
His girlfriend Valerie Storie remained paralysed from the waist down.

48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 August 1965
(-)
Hermann Schmitz is stabbed to death by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 25 in Duisburg, Grossenbaum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1967
(+)
Musician and Teenage-Star Yukiko Okada aka Yukko, is born in Japan.

44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1969
(x)
22-year-old Viktor Iliyin tries to assassinate 62-year-old Statesman Leonid Ilyitsj Breshnev in Moscow, Red Square, Russia.
He kills Breshnev’s driver and injures 2 USSR-astronauts who accompanied him.

37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 August 1976
(-)
Lutheran Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 47 in Zeits, in front of the Michaelskirche, Germany.

35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1978
(-)
An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in West Cornforth, Durham, United Kingdom.

33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1980
(-)
Margo Walls is strangled and hammered to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 47 in Farnsley, New Street, United Kingdom.

31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 August 1982
(-)
King Sobhuza II aka The Lion, dies at the age of 83 in Swaziland.
He leaves 500 widows and children.

28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1985
(x)
54 Die in British Airtours Boeing 737 fire in Manchester, United Kingdom.

27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1986
(-)
Murderer Larry Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 August 1988
(-)
Mari Konno is strangled by Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, at the age of 4 in Saitama, Japan.

24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1989
(-)
Black Panther Huey Percy Newton is fatally shot by 24-year-old Black Guerilla Family member Tyrone Robinson at the age of 47 in Oakland, 1400 block of 9th street, California, USA.
Newton's last words, as he stood facing his killer, were, "You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!"

22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1991
(-)
Murderer Derick Lynn Peterson is executed by Old Sparky in Greenville, Virginia, USA.

17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1996
(-)
Murderer Luis Morine Mata is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 2000
(-)
Murderer Richard Wayne Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 2003
(-)
Murderer William Quentin Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 2006
(x)
170 Die in Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 Tupolev TU-154M crash in Sukha Balka, Ukraine.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

30 Years Ago They Had to be Very Ready With Their Hand Camera Because This Action Could Become Very Fast

399 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 August 1614
(-)
Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, dies after being walled in in a small room in her own castle for 3 years at the age of 54 in Cachtice, Hungary.

141 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 August 1872
(+)
Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley is born in Brighton, United Kingdom.

109 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 August 1904
(+)
Bandleader William “Count” Basie is born in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA.

102 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 August 1911
(x)
29-year-old Thief Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa and keeps it in his room for about 2 years in Paris, France.

92 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 August 1921
(x)
57-year-old Serial Killer and presumed cannibal Karl Friedrich Grossmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof, is arrested in Berlin, Friedrichshain, Lange Strasse 88/89, Germany.
In his house bodyparts of several victims were found in the oven. He used to sell the meat in his stall at Schlesischen Bahnhof.

84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 August 1929
(-)
Frau Mantel and another woman is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 30 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
They both survived.

84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 August 1929
(x)
22-year-old Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, marries Diego Rivera in The Blue House, Mexico City, Mexico.
Their marriage was called a union between an elephant and a dove.

82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 August 1931
(-)
Murderer Herbert Young is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
It was the last execution by hanging in Arizona. After that the Gas Chamber was installed.

73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 August 1940
(-)
Frau Schuhmacher is beaten and raped by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Zobtener Strasse, Germany.
She survived.

70 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 August 1943
(-)
Ruth Fuerst is strangled by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 21 in London, United Kingdom.

69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 August 1944
(x)
44 Die in Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash in Morocco.
The pilot had committed suicide.

66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 August 1947
(-)
Automobile designer Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti dies at the age of 65 in Dorlisheim, Alsace, France.

63 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 August 1950
(+)
Attempted assassin Arthur Herman Bremer is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

52 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 August 1961
(x)
32-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is put in solitary confinement for the stabbing of Jerry Tharrington in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 August 1962
(+)
Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is born in Japan.
He is born with deformed gnarled hands.

50 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 August 1963
(x)
Four buddhist monks and a nun commit suicide by self-immolation as a protest against occupation of their holy temples by government armed forced in Saigon, Vietnam.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 August 1968
(x)
Russian armed forces invade Czechoslowakia.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 August 1968
(-)
Barbara Locci is shot dead by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 32 in Florence, Signa, Italy.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 August 1969
(x)
40-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from a prison farm in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 August 1969
(x)
Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 August 1971
(x)
The Manson Family members Mary Brunner, Gypsy Share, Chuckleberry, Little Larry and Dennis Rice aka Fatherman are involved in a shoot-out with the police after robbing a gun-shop in Los Angeles, 13355 South Hawthorne Boulevard, California, USA.

42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 August 1971
(-)
Black Panther George Lester Jackson aka Soledad Brother, is shot dead in a shootout with prison guards at the age of 29 in San Quentin Prison, New York, USA.

35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 August 1978
(-)
Schipka Postalnyi is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 20 in Prezid, Yugoslavia.

32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 August 1981
(-)
IRA-member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, dies after 60 days hungerstriking at the age of 27 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the tenth and last to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 August 1983
(-)
Opposition-leader Benigno “Ninoy” Simeon Aquino is shot dead on the airfield after returning from a 3-year exile in the USA at the age of 50 in Manila, the Fillipines.

29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 August 1984
(x)
31-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is arrested and charged with the murders of at least 15 young men in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

8 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 August 2005
(-)
Musician and inventor Robert Arthur Moog dies of a brain tumour at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

90 Years Ago Each Beat of His Heart Sounded Like a Welcome Mat

1029 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 984
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136th Pope John XIV originally Peter, dies of starvation or poison in Rome, Italy.

190 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1823
(-)
251st Pope Pius VII originally Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.

180 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1833
(+)
23rd president of the USA Benjamin Harrison is born in North Bend, Ohio, USA.

123 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1890
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Writer Howard Philips Lovecraft is born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

113 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 August 1900
(x)
Family-murderer Franz Theodore Wallert kills his wife and his 4 children in Minnesota, USA.

101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1912
(-)
Founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth dies at the age of 83 in London, Hadley Wood, United Kingdom.

99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 August 1914
(-)
257th Pope Pius X originally Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.

90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 August 1923
(+)
Musician Jim James Travis Reeves is born in Carthage, Texas, USA.

84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1929
(-)
Anne Goldhausen is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 16 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1937
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Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1937
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The concentration camp of Buchenwald is inaugurated by 36-year-old Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in Weimar, Germany.

73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1940
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Revolutionary leader Leon Leb Davidowitsch Bronstein Trotsky is hacked to death by Jaime Ramon Mercader Del Rio Hernandes aka Frank Jacson aka Jacques Mornard at the age of 60 in Coyoacan, Mexico.

71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 August 1942
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Musician Isaac Hayes is born in Covington, Tennessee, USA.

67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1946
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An unidentified woman is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, in Hof, Guterbahnhof, Germany.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1948
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Musician Robert Anthony Plant is born in West Bromwich, United Kingdom.

63 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 August 1950
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Serial Killer William Bill Lester Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is born in California, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 August 1962
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Murderer Leeroy Sanford McGahuey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 40 in Oregon, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 August 1962
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Jane Sullivan is strangled and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 67 in Boston, Dorchester, 435 Columbia Road, Massachussets, USA.

47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 August 1966
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Heavy Metal guitarist Darrell Abbott aka Dimebag, is born in Arlington, Texas, USA.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1971
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Linda Dudley is stabbed to death by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.

37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1976
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An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 23 in Bath, Avon, United Kingdom.

35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 August 1978
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An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 54 in Biddeford, Maine, USA.

33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1980
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Musician Joe Joseph Ira Dassin dies of a heart attack at the age of 41 in Tahiti.

33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1980
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 5" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 August 1981
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Christopher Williams is choked to death by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 17 in San Bernardino, California, USA.

31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1982
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Mass Murderer Carl Robert Brown is shot dead by Mark Kram while cycling away from the crime scene at the age of 51 in Miami, near Miami International Airport, Florida, USA.
Minutes before he killed eight people in Bob Moore's Welding & Machine Service Inc.

27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1986
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Mass-murderer Patrick Henry Sherril commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Edmond, Oklahoma, USA.
He first shot 14 people in the post-office where he used to work.

27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1986
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Murderer Randy Woolls is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
As an experienced drug addict, he helped the executioner to find a good vein.

20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1993
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Murderer Carl Kelly is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1996
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Musician Ralph Christian Möbius aka Rio Reiser, dies of heart failure at the age of 46 in Fresenhagen, Nordfriesland, Germany.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 2002
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Murderer Gary Wayne Etheridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

5 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 2008
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154 Die in Spanair Flight 5022 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crash in Madrid, Barajas Airport, Spain.