(-) 178th Pope Gregorius IX originally Ugolino del Conti, dies at the age of 98 in Rome, Italy.
733 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1280
(-) 188th Pope Nicholas III originally Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.
253 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1760
(+) 252nd Pope Leo XII originally Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga, is born in Genga, Italy.
151 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1862
(+) Composer Claude Achille Debussy is born in St. Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France.
122 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 August 1891
(+) Artist Jacques Chaim Jacob Lipchitz is born in Druskininkaï, Lithuania, Russia.
111 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1902
(+) Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl is born in Berlin, Germany.
105 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 August 1908
(+) Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is born in Chanteloup, France.
93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 August 1920
(+) Science Fiction writer Ray Bradbury known for “Fahrenheit 451”, is born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1922
(-) Black Parks Blanks is lynched after a verbal disagreement with a Ku-Klux-Klan member in Yazoo-City, Missouri, USA.
(+) Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is born in Modrath, Germany.
85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 August 1928
(x) 58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for petty larceny in Manhattan, New York, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1952
(+) Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1961
(x) Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry attempts to assassinate 70-year-old President of France Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle in Petit-Clamart, France.
52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1961
(-) Michael Gregsten is presumably attacked and shot by James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer, at the age of 36 in Deadman’s Hill, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
His girlfriend Valerie Storie remained paralysed from the waist down.
48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 August 1965
(-) Hermann Schmitz is stabbed to death by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 25 in Duisburg, Grossenbaum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1967
(+) Musician and Teenage-Star Yukiko Okada aka Yukko, is born in Japan.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1969
(x) 22-year-old Viktor Iliyin tries to assassinate 62-year-old Statesman Leonid Ilyitsj Breshnev in Moscow, Red Square, Russia.
He kills Breshnev’s driver and injures 2 USSR-astronauts who accompanied him.
37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 August 1976
(-) Lutheran Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 47 in Zeits, in front of the Michaelskirche, Germany.
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1978
(-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in West Cornforth, Durham, United Kingdom.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1980
(-) Margo Walls is strangled and hammered to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 47 in Farnsley, New Street, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 August 1982
(-) King Sobhuza II aka The Lion, dies at the age of 83 in Swaziland.
He leaves 500 widows and children.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1985
(x) 54 Die in British Airtours Boeing 737 fire in Manchester, United Kingdom.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 1986
(-) Murderer Larry Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 August 1988
(-) Mari Konno is strangled by Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, at the age of 4 in Saitama, Japan.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 1989
(-) Black Panther Huey Percy Newton is fatally shot by 24-year-old Black Guerilla Family member Tyrone Robinson at the age of 47 in Oakland, 1400 block of 9th street, California, USA.
Newton's last words, as he stood facing his killer, were, "You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!"
22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1991
(-) Murderer Derick Lynn Peterson is executed by Old Sparky in Greenville, Virginia, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 August 1996
(-) Murderer Luis Morine Mata is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 2000
(-) Murderer Richard Wayne Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 August 2003
(-) Murderer William Quentin Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 August 2006
(x) 170 Die in Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 Tupolev TU-154M crash in Sukha Balka, Ukraine.
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