(x) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar invades Britain.
275 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1738
(-) Forger William Newington is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.
270 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 August 1743
(+) Scientist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is born in Paris, France.
222 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 August 1791
(-) Murderer Whiting Sweeting is executed by hanging in Stephentown, New York, USA.
217 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 August 1796
(-) 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
(+) 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
(-) Murderer Thomas Hartley Montgomery is executed by hanging in Omagh Prison, Ireland.
137 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 August 1876
(-) Mutineer and murderer Emmanuel Christos Bombas is executed by hanging in Cork County, Ireland.
134 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1879
(-) Murderer John Ralph is executed by hanging in Warwick, United Kingdom.
133 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 August 1880
(+) Writer Guillaume Apollinaire originally Wilhelm Appolinaris Albertus Kostrowitsky, is born in Rome, Italy.
129 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 August 1884
(-) 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
(-) Murderer James Tobin is executed by hanging in Wexford County, Ireland.
126 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 August 1887
(-) Wife-murderer W. Wilton is executed by hanging in Lewes, United Kingdom.
122 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 August 1891
(-) Wife-murderer Edward H. F. Watts is executed by hanging in Winchester, United Kingdom.
(+) Art collector Peggy Marguerite Guggenheim is born in New York, New York, USA.
99 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 August 1914
(+) Writer Julio Florencio Cortázar is born in Brussels, Ixelles, Argentina Embassy, Brabant, Belgium.
93 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 August 1920
(+) Murderer J. C. Levice is born in Arizona, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 August 1937
(+) 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
(+) Musician Maureen Ann Tucker aka “Moe”, is born in Levittown, New York, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 August 1945
(-) 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
(-) Automobile industry pioneer Ransom Eli Olds dies at the age of 86 in Lansing, Michigan, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 August 1959
(+) 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.
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