29th year - N° 32 Saturday, 1 February 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 32 Saturday, 1 February 2014

1 February / Today's 11 Events:

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(+) 121 years ago Wednesday 1st of February 1893 Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See is born in Spandau, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 106 years ago Saturday 1st of February 1908 King Carlos I of Portugal aka o Diplomata aka o Martirizado and his son Prince Luis are shot dead by revolutionary republicans Alfredo Costa and Manual Buiça at the age of 45 in Praça do Comércio, Lisboa, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Portugal. The assassins were shot dead by the King's bodyguards. An innocent bystander was also killed in the confusion.

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(+) 75 years ago Il ne Connaissait pas Alexandrie ni Alexandra Wednesday 1st of February 1939 Musician Claude Antoine Marie François aka Cloclo is born in Ismaïlia, Al Isma'iliyah, Egypt.

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(-) 55 years ago She Felt Better Sunday 1st of February 1959 August Norry is shot dead by murderess Penny Bjorkland in San Bruno Mountains, San Francisco, California, United States. "Just to see if I could do it and not worry about it and I've felt better since I killed him."

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(x) 44 years ago Sunday 1st of February 1970 236 die in express and local train collision in Benavídez station, Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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(x) 40 years ago Friday 1st of February 1974 188 die in Joelma Building fire in Joelma Building, 225 Avenue Nove de Julho, São Paulo, Região Sudeste, Brazil. 40 individuals jumped to escape the conditions inside and in failed attempts to grasp unreachable fire ladders. None of these jumpers survived.

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(x) 40 years ago Friday 1st of February 1974 45-year-old Great Train Robber Ronnie Ronald Arthur Biggs is arrested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biggs could not be extradited because his girlfriend, nightclub dancer Raimunda de Castro, was pregnant.

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(x) 36 years ago Wednesday 1st of February 1978 45-year-old Film director Roman Polanski, originally Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański skips bail and flees the country after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer during a photo shoot for French Vogue magazine in March 1977 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 23 years ago Friday 1st of February 1991 46-year-old Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer is sentenced to 10 consecutive terms of 25 years to life in Rochester, New York, United States.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 1st of February 2004 A closed door in Singapore, Singapore.

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(x) 4 years ago Monday 1st of February 2010 119 die in Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 Flight 956 crash in Khorramabad, Lorestan, Iran.

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