(+) Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia, is born in Tremadoc, Gwynedd, United Kingdom.
125 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 August 1888
(-) Druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola John Stith Pemberton dies at the age of 57 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
119 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 August 1894
(-) Murderer of president Sadi Carnot, Geronimo Santo Caserio is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 20 in Lyon, Rhône, France.
114 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 August 1899
(-) Chemist and inventor Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen known for the Bunsen Burner, dies at the age of 88 in Heidelberg, Germany.
101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 August 1912
(-) Murderess Virginia Christian is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 17 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
97 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 August 1916
(-) Artist Umberto Boccioni is thrown from his horse during a cavalry training and trampled at the age of 33 in Verona, Sorte, Italy.
93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 August 1920
(+) Writer Charles ‘Hank’ Henry Bukowski originally Heinrich Karl Bukowski, is born in Andernach, Germany.
87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 August 1926
(-) Mary Nesbitt is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 52 in Oakland, California, USA.
85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 August 1928
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is arrested in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 August 1935
(-) FBI-agent Nelson Klein is shot dead by George Barret at the age of 37 in College Corner, Indiana, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 August 1945
(-) Japanese Admiral Takijiro Onishi aka the Father of Kamikaze, commits suicide by Harakiri at the age of 54 in Japan.
He did not use a kaishakunin (second), and died of self-inflicted injuries over a period of 15 hours.
65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 August 1948
(-) Baseball player George Herman Ruth aka Babe Ruth aka The Sultan of Swat, dies of cancer at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 August 1950
(+) Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Petra Schelm is born in Hamburg, Germany.
62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 August 1951
(+) Serial Killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka The Pug Dumper aka The Prison Poet aka Jack the Writer, is born in Judenburg, Styria, Austria.
57 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 August 1956
(-) Actor Bela Lugosi originally Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko, dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 August 1958
(+) Musician Madonna originally Louise Ciccione, is born in Bay City, Michigan, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 August 1965
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the first floor of a building he owns, collecting $11.000 on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 August 1969
(-) Jemima McDonald is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 32 in Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom, United Kingdom.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 August 1969
(x) 34-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is arrested in a police-raid on the Spahn Ranch in Death Valley, California, USA.
21 other Family members are also arrested but released after a couple of days due to a warrant misdate.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 August 1975
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is arrested and charged with ‘attempt to evade a police-officer’ in Salt Lake City, Granger, Utah, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 August 1977
(-) Musician Elvis Aaron Presley aka The King, dies of alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 42 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 August 1977
(x) Bartholomeus Bruyn’s "Portrait", Lucas Cranach the Elder’s "Portrait of Martin Luther and his wife Katharina von Bora" and several more paintings are attacked with acid by 39-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in Hannover, Staatsmuseum, Germany.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 August 1987
(x) 155 Die in Northwest Airlines Flight 255 McDonnel Douglas MD-82 crash in Detroit, Romulus, Michigan, USA.
4-year-old Cecelia Marie Cichan was the sole survivor.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 August 1995
(-) Murderer Leon Jerome Moser is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, USA.
He killed his ex-wife and their two daughters.
15 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 August 1998
(-) Serial Killer Abdallah Al-Hubal is shot dead by police in Sanaa, Yemen.
He engaged in a shootout, killing the police-chief and wounding three others.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 August 2000
(-) Murderer John Thomas Satterwhite is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 August 2001
(-) Double murderer Jeffrey Carlton Doughtie is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 August 2003
(x) 58-year-old Artist Jörg Immendorff is caught with seven prostitutes (and four more on the way) and 10 grams of cocaïne in a Versace ashtrey in the luxury suite of the five star Steigenberger hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany.
He explained it as an act of "orientalism".
10 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 August 2003
(-) Dictator Idi Amin Dada dies at the age of 78 in Jeddah, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia.
8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 August 2005
(x) 160 Die in West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 McDonnel Douglas MD-82 crash in Machiques, Venezuela.
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