(-) 24th Pope Sixtus II is executed by beheading in Rome, Roma, Italy.
1490 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 August 523
(-) 52nd Pope Hormisdas dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.
555 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 August 1458
(-) 209th Pope Callixtus III originally Alfons de Borja, dies at the age of 79 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
353 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 August 1660
(-) Artist Diego Rodriguez de Sivla y Velázquez dies of fever at the age of 61 in Madrid, Spain.
204 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 August 1809
(+) Poet Alfred Tennyson is born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
132 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 August 1881
(+) Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming is born in Lochfield, Strath, United Kingdom.
123 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 August 1890
(-) Murderer William Kemmler aka John Hurt, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in New York, Auburn Prison, New York, United States.
It is the first ever execution by use of the electric chair.
111 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 August 1902
(+) Gangster and bootlegger Arthur Flegenheimer aka Dutch Schulz, is born in the Bronx, New York, United States.
102 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 August 1911
(+) Actress Lucille Désirée Ball is born in Jamestown, New York, United States.
96 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 August 1917
(+) Actor Robert Charles Durman Mitchum is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 August 1925
(+) Victim of the Manson Family Leno Pasqualino Antonio LaBianca is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.
86 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 August 1927
(+) Artist and filmmaker Andy Andrew Warhol aka The Pope of Pop, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 August 1943
(-) Robber and murderer Harry Thompson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Arkansas, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 August 1945
(x) US B-29 "Enola Gay" drops a Uranium 235 bomb named "Little Boy" in Hiroshima, Japan.
48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 August 1965
(-) Peter Fuchs is abducted and tortured to death by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 13 in Oberhausen, Hauptbahnhof, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 August 1966
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults and rapes an unidentified 15-year-old girl in Trinity, Jersey.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 August 1969
(-) Social theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno commits suicide by heart palpitations after climbing a 3000m mountain against advice by his doctor at the age of 65 in Zermatt in Wallis, Valais, Switzerland.
He was convinced that recent attacks by students were directed against his theories as well as his person and he feared that the current political situation may lead to totalitarianism.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 August 1978
(-) 262nd Pope Paul VI originally Giovanni Battista Montini, dies at the age of 80 in Brescia, Castelgandolfo, Italy.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 August 1980
(-) Artist Marino Marini dies at the age of 79 in Viareggio, Italy.
(-) Countertenor Klaus Nomi originally Klaus Sperber, dies of AIDS at the age of 39 in New York, Sloan Kettering Hospital Center, New York, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 August 1985
(-) Christopher Peterson is shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 38 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 August 1987
(-) Psychotic Dwain Wallace is shot dead by guards whilst trying to enter the Pentagon by force at the age of 30 in Washington, District Columbia, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 August 1990
(+) Child Beauty Queen JonBenet Patricia Ramsey is born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 August 1997
(x) 228 Die in Korean Air Flight 801 Boeing 747-300 crash in Nimitz Hill, Guam.
4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 August 2009
(x) 80-year-old Great Train Robber Ronald “Ronnie” Arthur Biggs is released from prison on compassionate grounds in Norwich, United Kingdom.
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