Tuesday, August 13, 2013

100 Years Ago the Acrobat King Had a Go in the Sultan's Harem

195 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 August 1818
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Abolitionist and Suffragette Lucy Stone is born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA.

150 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 August 1863
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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
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Founder of the Communist Party of Germany Karl Liebknecht is born in Leipzig, Germany.

114 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 August 1899
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Filmmaker Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, is born in London, United Kingdom.

111 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 August 1902
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Scientist and engineer Felix Heinrich Wankel is born in Lahr, Germany.

106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1907
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Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Von Bohlen und Halbach Krupp is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1907
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Murderer Richard Brinkley is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

103 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 August 1910
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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
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Composer Jules Emile Fréderic Massenet dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Paris, France.

100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 August 1913
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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
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President and archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III originally Mihalis Christodoulou Mouskos, is born in Panagia, Cyprus.

98 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1915
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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
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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
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Revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is born in Biran, Cuba.

84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1929
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Serial Killer Raymond Leslie Morris aka The Cannock Chase Murderer, is born in Walsall, United Kingdom.

76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1937
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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
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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
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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
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Writer Herbert George Wells dies of heart failure at the age of 79 in London, United Kingdom.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 August 1958
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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
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USSR and DDR military forces start building the Wall in Berlin, Germany.

49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 August 1964
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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
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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
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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
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9/11 Terrorist Hani Saleh Hanjour is born in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.

40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 August 1973
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85 Die in Caravelle explosion in La Coruna, Spain.

31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1982
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Juvenile murderer Jon Venables is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 August 1982
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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
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Over 100 Die in Royal Plaza Hotel collapse in Naakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 August 1996
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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
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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
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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
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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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