(-) Murderer William Corder aka The Red Barn Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Bury St. Edmonds Gaol, United Kingdom.
176 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 August 1837
(+) Fourth President of France Sadi Marie François Carnot is born in Limoges, France.
121 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 August 1892
(x) 32-year-old Presumed hatchet murderess Lizzie Andrew Borden is arrested on suspicion of hacking to death her parents in Fall River, Massachussets, USA.
100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 August 1913
(+) Writer Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson is born in Bexhill, Sussex, United Kingdom.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 August 1929
(-) Maria Hahn is stabbed to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He bit open her neck and drank the warm blood.
81 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 August 1932
(+) Dramatist and filmmaker Fernando Arrabal is born in Melilla, Morocco.
80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 August 1933
(+) Dramatist Jerzy Grotowski is born in Rzeszów, Poland.
65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 August 1948
(+) Simpletone Rudy Cabie is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.
(+) Revolutionary student Jan Palach is born in Prague, Czechoslowakia.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 August 1954
(-) Artist and murderer William Sanchez de Pina Hepper is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 August 1956
(-) Artist Jackson Paul Pollock dies in a head-on collision with his Oldsmobile Convertible at the age of 44 in East-Hampton, New York, USA.
Other passengers in the car Edith Metzger also died while Ruth Kligman survived.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 August 1957
(+) Nazi Punk Rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson is born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 August 1974
(-) Gary Cordova is found poisoned and mutilated by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, in Orange County, Cabot Road, California, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 August 1976
(x) 54-year-old Serial Killer Bernard Pesquet is arrested on suspicion of 6 murders in his home town in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 August 1979
(x) Over 5000 Die in dam collapse in Morvi, India.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 August 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 4 (Ladder)" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 August 1982
(-) Cynthia Hinds is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 August 1984
(+) Mass murderer Mitchell Johnson is born in Arkansas, USA.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 August 1992
(-) Murderer Curtis Johnson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 August 1994
(-) Horror film actor Peter Wilton Cushing dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.
15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 August 1998
(x) Start of the trial against 14-year-old Mass murderers Mitchell Johnson and 12-year-old Andrew Golden for the Jonesboro Massacre in Arkansas, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 August 1999
(-) Murderer James Otto Earhart is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 August 2005
(x) 21-year-old Mass murderer Mitchell Johnson is released from prison after serving 7 years for the Jonesboro Massacre in Arkansas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 August 2006
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Adam Ford aka The Breast Severer, is sentenced to death in San Bernardino, California, USA.
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