1984 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 29
(-) John The Baptist is executed by beheading in Samaria, Israël.
214 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1799
(-) 250th Pope Pius VI originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi, dies at the age of 81 in Valence, France.
151 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1862
(+) Poet and writer Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.
142 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 August 1871
(+) The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater is born in Maryland, USA.
136 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 1877
(-) Mormon prophet Brigam Young aka The American Moses, dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
119 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 1894
(-) Murderer Albert Bruneau aka The Murderous Priest, is executed by the Guillotine in Laval, France.
106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1907
(x) 75 workers Die in Quebec Bridge collapse during construction in Quebec, Canada.
98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1915
(+) Actress Ingrid Bergmann is born in Stockholm, Sweden.
97 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 August 1916
(x) Over 1000 Die in Hsin Yu shipwreck in China.
93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1920
(+) Musician Charlie Charles Jr. Parker aka “Bird”, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
90 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 1923
(+) Actor Richard Attenborough is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 August 1928
(-) Murderer Gerard Toal is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Dublin, Ireland.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1930
(-) Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism, dies at the age of 86 in Oxford, United Kingdom.
78 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1935
(-) Queen of Belgium Astrid originally Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra of Sweden, dies in a car crash at the age of 29 in Küßnacht, Switzerland.
75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 August 1938
(+) Artist Hermann Nitsch the Viennese Actionist, is born in Vienna, Austria.
70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1943
(-) Murderess Mildred Mary Bolton commits suicide by cutting her wrists with a pair of scissors at the age of 57 in Dwight, Women’s penitentiary, Illinois, USA.
65 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1948
(-) Nancy Chadwick is battered to death by Margaret Allen aka ‘Bill’, in the United Kingdom.
“In one of my funny moods.”
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1958
(+) Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, is born in Gary, Indiana, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 August 1959
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, rapes an unidentified girl in Grouville, Jersey.
45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1968
(+) Murderer William Quentin Jones is born in North Carolina, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1969
(x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Albert Price for sodomizing an unidentified 5-year-old boy in San Francisco, California, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 August 1969
(-) Glenda Harden is stabbed to death by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, at the age of 21 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1971
(-) Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Puerto Rico.
31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1982
(-) Actress Ingrid Bergmann dies of breast cancer at the age of 67 in London, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 August 1982
(-) Terry Milligan is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 August 1987
(-) Actor Lee Marvin dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
21 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 August 1992
(-) Psychotherapist and philosopher Pierre-Félix Guattari dies at the age of 62 in Cour-Cheverny, La Borde Clinic, France.
17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 August 1996
(x) 141 Die in Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 Tupolev Tu-154 crash in Spitsbergen, Norway.
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