(-) 170th Pope Alexander III originally Rolando Bandinelli, dies at the age of 81 in Civita Castellana, Italy.
265 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1748
(+) Artist Jacques-Louis David is born in Paris, France.
216 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 1797
(+) Writer Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley is born in London, United Kingdom.
163 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1850
(-) Murderer John White Webster is executed by hanging in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
130 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 August 1883
(+) Artist and founder of De Stijl Theo Van Doesburg is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 August 1898
(+) Murderer Carl J. Folk is born in Arizona, USA.
(-) Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is shot in the left shoulder and jaw by Fanya Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin, at the age of 48 in Moscow, Russia.
"My name is Fanya Kaplan. Today I shot at Lenin. I did it on my own. I will not say from whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details. I had resolved to kill Lenin long ago. I consider him a traitor to the Revolution."
78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1935
(-) Writer Henri Barbusse dies at the age of 62 in Moscow, Russia.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 1937
(+) Race-car designer and driver Bruce Leslie McLaren is born in Auckland, New Zealand.
74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 1939
(+) BBC Dj John Peel originally Kohn Robert Parker Ravelscroft, is born in Heswell, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 1948
(+) Deputy Chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 August 1949
(+) Musician Peter Maffay originally Peter Alexander Makkay, is born in Brasov, Romania.
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1963
(x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested whilst burglarizing a store in Maitland, Missouri, USA.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 1967
(-) Artist Ad Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt dies at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 1969
(-) Helen Puttock is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 29 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 1969
(-) Irena W. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 34 in Katowice, Poland.
She survived.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 August 1970
(-) Amateur filmmaker of the President Kennedy assassination Abraham Zapruder dies of stomach cancer at the age of 65 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 1971
(x) Bomb attacks by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Office of California Prisons in retaliation for the killing of Black Activist George Jackson in Sacramento and San Francisco, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1974
(x) 153 Die in Belgrade-Dortmund Express train derailment in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 1975
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is baptised in the Church of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 August 1977
(-) Mary Gregsten is strangled by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Shipley, Saltaire Canal Towpath, United Kingdom.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 August 1981
(-) President Ali Rajah and prime minister Mohammed Bahonar are killed in a bomb attack in Teheran, Iran.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 1982
(+) Spree killer Kip Kipland Philip Kinkel is born in Springfield, Oregon, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 1986
(x) 82 Die in Aeromexico Douglas DC-9 and Piper PA-28 collision in Cerritos, California, USA.
22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 August 1991
(-) Artist Jean Tinguely dies of heart-failure at the age of 66 in Bern, Switzerland.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 August 1994
(-) Filmmaker and leading light of the Free Cinema Lindsay Gordon Anderson dies at the age of 71 in Angoulème, France.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 1995
(-) Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison dies of lymphoma at the age of 53 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 August 2000
(-) Multiple murderer Jeffery Henry Caldwell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He killed his parents and his sister in 1988.
10 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 August 2003
(-) Actor Charles Bronson originally Charles Dennis Buchinski, dies of pneumonia at the age of 80 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 August 2004
(-) Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges dies of a heart disease at the age of 70 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 August 2007
(x) The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 58-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, USA.
It was her 18th unsuccessful application.
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