(-) Mongol Ruler Ghengis Khan originally Temüüjin, dies of injuries suffered when falling off his horse at the age of 65 in Mongolia.
510 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 August 1503
(-) 214th Pope Alexander VI is presumably poisoned at the age of 72 in Rome, Italy.
His stomach was swelling and became liquid while his skin was peeling off.
454 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 August 1559
(-) 223rd Pope Paul IV originally Giovanni Pietro Carafa, dies at the age of 83 in Rome, Italy.
379 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 August 1634
(-) Priest and philanderer Urbain Grandier aka The Devil of Loudun, is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 44.
He supposedly bewitched an entire Ursuline nun convent into debauchery.
163 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 August 1850
(-) Writer Honoré de Balzac dies of cold-fire at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
His face had swollen up and turned black.
146 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 August 1867
(+) Explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett is born in Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom.
130 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 August 1883
(+) Fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France.
92 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 August 1921
(-) Suspected black rapist Jerome Whitfield is lynched by hanging in Winston, North Carolina, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 August 1922
(+) Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet is born in Brest, France.
(+) Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, is born in Paris, France.
79 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 August 1934
(+) Attorney in the Manson Family trial Vincent Bugliosi is born in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 August 1936
(+) Actor Robert Redford is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 August 1947
(x) 147 Die in dockyard explosion in Cadiz, Spain.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 August 1954
(+) Actor Patrick Wayne Swayze is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 August 1958
(x) The novel "Lolita" by 59-year-old Writer Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Nabokov is published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York, New York, USA.
It sold 100,000 copies in the first three weeks of publication.
54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 August 1959
(-) Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 31 in San Quentin, California, USA.
53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 August 1960
(x) The Beatles play their first concert in Hamburg, Indra Club, Germany.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 August 1977
(x) 2 Elvis Presley fans are killed when an 18-year-old drunk driver crashes into the mourning crowd outside Elvis’ mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 August 1980
(-) An unidentified man is beaten and strangled by David Mason at the age of 75 in California, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 August 1984
(x) Over 200 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bangladesh.
28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 August 1985
(x) Over 300 Die in ferry capsizing in Taiyang, China.
Everybody had moved to one side of the ship because of a fight.
24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 August 1989
(-) Vietnam-hero turned murderer Herbert Lee Richardson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 43 in Atmore, Alabama, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 August 1999
(-) Murderer Joe Mario Jr. Trevino is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 August 2005
(x) 60-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, is sentenced to 10 life sentences, one for each "Bind, Torture, Kill" murder in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
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