(-) 186th Pope Adrianus V originally Ottobuono de’ Fieschi, dies at the age of 71 in Viterbo, Italy.
134 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 August 1879
(+) Revolutionary Leader Emiliano Zapata Salazar is born in Anenecuilco, Mexico.
108 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 August 1905
(+) Composer André Jolivet is born in Paris, France.
99 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 August 1914
(+) Supposed mistress of Adolf Hitler Unity Valkyrie Mitford is born in London, United Kingdom.
90 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 August 1923
(-) Child murderer Albert Edward Burrows is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 August 1925
(x) The first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan is joined by over 200.000 followers in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 August 1929
(+) The Great Train Robber Ronald “Ronnie” Arthur Biggs is born in London East End, United Kingdom.
82 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 August 1931
(x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, places a bomb on the Basel-Berlin Express D-train track in Juterbog, Germany.
76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 August 1937
(+) Actor Dustin Hoffman is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 August 1942
(x) The bodies of the Kneller family, victims of 45-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, are found floating in the Seine in Asnières, France.
70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 August 1943
(x) 14-year-old Serial Killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is arrested for several burglaries in Chicago, Rogers Park Hotel, Illinois, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 August 1944
(+) Filmmaker Peter Weir is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 August 1944
(+) Hardcore porn actor John Curtis Holmes aka Johnny Wadd, is born in Ashville, Ohio, USA.
63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 August 1950
(-) Commander of Breendonk-KZ Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 47 in Hoboken, Antwerp, Belgium.
It was the last official execution in Belgium.
61 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 August 1952
(-) Murderer Wayne Leroy Long is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 August 1956
(x) 263 Die in coal-mine explosion in Marcinelle, Belgium.
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 August 1958
(-) Infant-killer Angelo John Lemarca is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing prison, New York, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 August 1962
(-) Murderess Elisabeth Duncan is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 74 in the USA.
She ordered the murder of her 29-year-old daughter-in-law Olga Kupczyk. In the Gas Chamber she was accompanied by 25-year-old Luis Moya and 31-year-old Augustine ‘Gus’ Baldonado, who actually killed the victim.
50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 August 1963
(x) 31-year-old Mastermind Bruce Richard Reynolds aka The Great Train Robber, leads his gang on the robbery of the Royal Mail train, cashing £2.600.000 in London, 1/2 hour before Euston station, United Kingdom.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 August 1972
(-) Andy Warhol Superstar Andrea Feldman aka Whips, commits suicide by jumping from the fourteenth floor window of her flat at the age of 24 in New York, 51 Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, New York, USA.
She invited several ex-boyfriends to her parents' apartment to witness her final starring role, her suicide.
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(-) Serial Killer Dean Arnold Corll aka The Candyman, is shot dead with his own .22 pistol by Wayne Henley at the age of 33 in Houston, Pasadena, 2020 Lamar St., Texas, USA.
Henley would later lead the police to 27 bodies of boys he delivered to Corll, who tortured and killed them.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 August 1974
(-) Writer and Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach dies at the age of 67 in Kröv-an-der-Mosel, Germany.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 August 1974
(x) 61-year-old 37th president of the USA Richard Mulhouse Nixon delivers his resignation speech due to the Watergate scandal in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 August 1981
(-) IRA-member Thomas McElwee originally Tomas Mac Giolla Bhuidhe, dies after 62 days of hungerstriking at the age of 23 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the ninth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 August 1985
(x) The German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion bomb the Rhein-Main US airbase in Frankfurt, Germany.
In Wiesbaden US soldier Edward Pimental is killed.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 August 1985
(-) Elyath Abowath is raped, beaten and shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 35 in Los Angeles, San Gabriel, California, USA.
Sakina survived.
12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 August 2001
(-) Murderer Mack Oran Hill is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 August 2002
(-) Murderer T.J. Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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