(-) 151st Pope Damasus II originally Poppo, Bishop of Brixen, dies of malaria in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
He reigned only 24 days and might have been poisoned.
143 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 August 1870
(-) Murderer Williams Dickson is executed by hanging in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.
(+) Murderer Chester Gillette aka An American Tragedy, is born in Montana, USA.
117 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 August 1896
(+) Psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget is born in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
114 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 August 1899
(+) Official executioner André Obrecht is born in Paris, France.
95 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 August 1918
(+) Filmmaker Robert Aldrich is born in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA.
73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 August 1940
(-) Murderer Robert G. Burgunder is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 August 1942
(-) Carmelite nun and martyr Edith Stein aka Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, dies in the gas chamber at the age of 50 in Auschwitz, Poland.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 August 1945
(x) US B-29 "Bockscar" drops a second Uranium 235 bomb named "Fat Man" in Nagasaki, Japan.
56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 August 1957
(-) Nazi-doctor and mass-sterilizer Carl Clauberg dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in prison, Germany.
51 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 August 1962
(-) Writer Hermann Hesse dies of a stroke at the age of 85 in Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland.
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 August 1963
(+) Musician Whitney Houston is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 August 1965
(x) 53 Die in underground long-distance-missiles stock explosion in Arkansas, USA.
45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 August 1968
(x) 33-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson overdubs some tracks of his music in San Francisco, California, USA.
All tracks appear on the Lp "Lie: The Love and Terror Cult" that was distributed during his trial for the Tate/LaBianca murders in 1970.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 August 1969
(-)Pregnant Sharon Tate is slaughtered by The Manson Family at the age of 26 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
In the same event 35-year-old Jay Sebring, 25-year-old Abigail Folger, 32-year-old Wojiciech ‘Voytek’ Frykowski and 18-year-old Steven Parrent were also killed.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 August 1970
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 13-year-old boy in Vallée des Vaux, St. Helier, Jersey.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 August 1975
(-) Composer Dmitri Shostakovich dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Moscow, Russia.
37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 August 1976
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Nawaf al-Hazmi is born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 August 1983
(-) Igor Gudkow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 8 in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 August 1987
(x) 19-year-old Spree Killer Julian Knight shoots 24 people, killing 6 in a shooting spree in Clifton Hill, Hoddle Street, Victoria, Australia.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 August 1989
(x) Police enter the house of 29-year-old Serial Killer Graham ‘Marty’ Harrison by force, where they find the cut-up bodies of 7 women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 August 1993
(-) Police-chief Mustafa Tabit is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 53 in Casablanca, Morocco.
He confessed to the rape and torture of hundreds of women during his service.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 August 1995
(-) Musician Jerry Jerome John Garcia aka Captain Trips from The Grateful Dead, dies of a heart attack due to sleep apnea at the age of 53 in Forest Knolls, California, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 August 1996
(-) Laetitia Delhez is abducted and held imprisoned by Marc Dutroux at the age of 14 in Bertrix, Luxemburg, Belgium.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 August 2000
(-) Double Murderer Brian Keith Roberson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 August 2000
(-) Murderer David Oliver Cruz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 August 2007
(-) Spree Killer Donald Gonzalez commits suicide by slashing his wrists with a shattered cd at the age of 26 in Broadmoor Hospital, United Kingdom.
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