(x) Mount Vesuvius erupts and covers the cities of Pompeï, Herculaneum and Stabiae in Italy.
243 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1770
(-) Writer and forger Thomas Chatterton commits suicide by arsenic poisoning at the age of 17 in Holborn, Brooke Street, United Kingdom.
138 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1875
(x) 32-year-old Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel from Dover to Calais in France.
118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1895
(-) Mme Morand is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 58 in France.
98 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1915
(+) Science fiction writer Alice Bradley Sheldon aka James Tiptree, Jr., is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 August 1919
(+) Musician Beny Moré aka El Barbaro Del Ritmo, originally Bartolome Maximilliano, is born in Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba.
90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1923
(-) Heinrich Struß is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Germany.
90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1923
(-) Murderer Dan Casey is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Oregon, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1929
(-) 5-year-old Gertrude Hamacher and 14-year-old Louize Lenzen are strangled and their throats cut by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1929
(+) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat originally Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, is born in Cairo, Egypt.
74 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 August 1939
(-) Frank Dolezal commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Jail, Ohio, USA.
He was suspected of being the Mad Butcher of Cleveland and badly beaten to force a confession.
73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1940
(+) Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald is born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA.
(-) Philosopher Simone Weil dies of cardiac failure due to anorexia nervosa at the age of 34 in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 August 1944
(+) Television reporter Christine Chubbuck is born in Hudson, Ohio, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1962
(-) Cop Killer James Duke is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 August 1977
(x) Rubens’ "Albrecht von Österreich" is attacked with acid by 39-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in Düsseldorf, Kunstmuzeum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 August 1981
(x) 26-year-old Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, is sentenced to 20 years to life in Manhattan, Criminal Court, New York, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 1984
(x) The Texas School Book Depository, from where Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, presumably operated, is destroyed by arson in Dallas, Texas, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 August 1985
(-) William Carns and Erickson are shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 29 in Mission Viejo, California, USA.
Erickson survived.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 August 1987
(-) Rapist and murderer Sterling Rault is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 36 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 August 1987
(-) Supposed Robol scientist Edward Moolenbeek dies in the United Kingdom.
In fact Moolenbeek was a fictional character created by The Hafler Trio.
20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1993
(-) Murderer Ruben Montoya Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 26 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
His final request was for a piece of bubble gum, which was denied.
20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 August 1993
(-) Serial Killer David Edwin Mason is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 36 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
While being held in county jail awaiting trial, he killed his cellmate. He was the last man to die in San Quentin's Gas Chamber.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 August 1994
(x) Fifth bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Klagenfurth, Austria.
A five kg percel-bomb is found near the Rennerschule, it explodes while 3 policemen are transporting it to the airport for closer examination, all three are injured.
12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 August 2001
(-) Murderer Clifton Allen White is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 August 2006
(-) Murderer Justin Chaz Fuller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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