(+) Abolitionist and Suffragette Lucy Stone is born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA.
150 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 August 1863
(-) Artist Eugène Victor Ferdinand Delacroix dies at the age of 65 in Paris, Île-de France, France.
142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 August 1871
(+) Founder of the Communist Party of Germany Karl Liebknecht is born in Leipzig, Germany.
114 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 August 1899
(+) Filmmaker Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, is born in London, United Kingdom.
111 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 August 1902
(+) Scientist and engineer Felix Heinrich Wankel is born in Lahr, Germany.
106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1907
(+) Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Von Bohlen und Halbach Krupp is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1907
(-) Murderer Richard Brinkley is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
103 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 August 1910
(-) Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp, dies at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.
101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1912
(-) Composer Jules Emile Fréderic Massenet dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Paris, France.
(x) 40-year-old Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte poses as a nephew of the Sultan and is crowned as King in Durres, Albania.
During his 5-day "reign" he enjoyed the Sultan's harem and declared war to Montenegro.
100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 August 1913
(+) President and archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III originally Mihalis Christodoulou Mouskos, is born in Panagia, Cyprus.
98 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1915
(-) Serial Killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.
89 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 August 1924
(x) 51-year-old Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, shoots his lover Theresa Mors and several bystanders in Los Angeles, California, USA.
87 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1926
(+) Revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is born in Biran, Cuba.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1929
(+) Serial Killer Raymond Leslie Morris aka The Cannock Chase Murderer, is born in Walsall, United Kingdom.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1937
(-) Murderer Burt Anderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 53 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1937
(-) Murderer Ernest Patton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 August 1939
(-) Frau Budzinski is beaten and stabbed by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.
She survived.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1946
(-) Writer Herbert George Wells dies of heart failure at the age of 79 in London, United Kingdom.
(-) Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte dies at the age of 85 in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 August 1961
(x) USSR and DDR military forces start building the Wall in Berlin, Germany.
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 August 1964
(-) Murderer Gwynne Owen Evans originally John Robson Walby aka Ginger, is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 August 1964
(-) Murderer Peter Anthony Allen is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 August 1969
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, has a bucket of water slammed into his head by an unidentified fellow-inmate in State penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 August 1972
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Hani Saleh Hanjour is born in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 August 1973
(x) 85 Die in Caravelle explosion in La Coruna, Spain.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1982
(+) Juvenile murderer Jon Venables is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1982
(-) Oleg Poshidajew is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 9 in Krasnodar Beach, Russia.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1993
(x) Over 100 Die in Royal Plaza Hotel collapse in Naakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1996
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux Michelle Martin and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping in Marcinelle, Belgium.
A search of his house fails to discover 2 abducted girls in his basement.
17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1996
(-) Consensual victim of Robert Frederick Glass Sharon Rina Lopatka originally Sharon Denburg, leaves her house for a date with an internet contact whom she had asked to torture and strangle her to death at the age of 34 in Lenoir, North Carolina, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 August 2007
(x) 45-year-old Cannibal and murderer Armin Meiwes aka Der Metzgermeister, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Frankfurt, Germany.
4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 August 2009
(-) Mass Murderer John Linley Frazier commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in Ione, Mule Creek State Prison, California, USA.
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