29th year - N° 45 Friday, 14 February 2014
14 February / Today's 30 Events:
 | (+) 442 years ago Machte Er ein Lustigs Liedelein
Tuesday 14th of February 1572
Composer Hans Christoph Haiden is born in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. |
 | (-) 235 years ago
Sunday 14th of February 1779
Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain James Cook is struck on the head and stabbed to death by native villagers at the age of 51 in Kealakekua Bay, Kona coast, Hawaii, United States. Cook's body was disembowelled, baked to facilitate removal of the flesh, and the bones were carefully cleaned for preservation as religious icons. |
 | (-) 113 years ago
Thursday 14th of February 1901
Bessie Elizabeth Taylor is poisoned with tartar-emetic by serial poisoner George Chapman aka The Borough Poisoner in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. |
 | (x) 105 years ago
Sunday 14th of February 1909
Over 300 die in Teatro Flores fire in Teatro Flores, Calle de Independencia, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. |
 | (+) 101 years ago
Friday 14th of February 1913
Labour union leader Jimmy James Riddle Hoffa is born in Brazil, Indiana, United States. |
 | (-) 85 years ago
Thursday 14th of February 1929
Gangsters Adam Meyer, Frank Foster, John May, Frank Clark, Al Weinshank and Peter and Frank Gusenberg are shot dead in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in 2122 North Clark Street, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States. The massacre was a result of a conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran. |
 | (x) 72 years ago
Saturday 14th of February 1942
Greta Hayward is attacked by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Hayward survived. Cummins had left behind his gas mask after the interrupted attack. The gas mask had the service number 525987 on the side which identified the possessor as Cummins. |
 | (-) 69 years ago
Wednesday 14th of February 1945
Charles Watford is accused of witchcraft and ritually murdered by driving a pitfork into his chest and a sickle through his throat by persons unknown at the age of 74 in Meon Hill, Mickleton, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. |
 | (+) 67 years ago
Friday 14th of February 1947
Musician Tim Timothy Charles Buckley is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. |
 | (x) 64 years ago
Tuesday 14th of February 1950
25-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey marries his first wife, Joan Davies in Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom. |
 | (-) 64 years ago He Stopped Listening to the Milky Way
Tuesday 14th of February 1950
Radio engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies of a heart condition at the age of 45 in Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, New Jersey, United States. |
 | (-) 57 years ago
Thursday 14th of February 1957
Murderer Winfred D. Moore is executed by hanging in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. |
| | (-) 57 years ago
Thursday 14th of February 1957
Murderer Thomas Edwards is executed by hanging in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. |
| | (x) 54 years ago
Sunday 14th of February 1960
35-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 12-year-old schoolboy in Grands Vaux, Jersey, United Kingdom. |
 | (+) 52 years ago
Wednesday 14th of February 1962
Double murderer Jay Kelly Pinkerton is born in Amarillo, Texas, United States. |
 | (x) 47 years ago
Tuesday 14th of February 1967
Over 150 graves are destroyed by an unidentified maniac who roams Belgian, German and Dutch cemetaries in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. |
 | (-) 45 years ago He Didn't Boss no More
Friday 14th of February 1969
Mobster and crime boss Vito Genovese aka Don Vito dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri, United States. |
 | (-) 40 years ago
Thursday 14th of February 1974
Writer Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, originally Plum dies of a heart attack at the age of 93 in Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York, United States. |
 | (-) 40 years ago
Thursday 14th of February 1974
Isabella Griffith is stabbed to death by serial killer Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First in 19 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. |
 | (-) 37 years ago
Monday 14th of February 1977
Self-styled Nazi and mass murderer Fred Frederick Cowan commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 34 in Neptune Worldwide Moving Company, New Rochelle, New York, United States. Cowan was surrounded by 300 police officers after shooting and killing five co-workers. |
 | (x) 35 years ago
Wednesday 14th of February 1979
25-year-old Melvin Reynolds confesses to the abduction and murder of 4-year-old Eric Christgen and is sentenced to life-imprisonment, although the murder was committed by 50-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. |
 | (-) 28 years ago
Friday 14th of February 1986
Sadist murderer Marc Fasquel is shot dead by the police at a road block at the age of 39 in Tarn-et-Garonne, France. His 30-year-old girlfriend and accomplice Jocelyne Bourdin is arrested. |
 | (x) 25 years ago
Tuesday 14th of February 1989
Spiritual leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini proclaims a fatwā requiring the execution of 43-year-old Writer Salman Ahmed Rushdie known for The Satanic Verses on Radio Tehran in Tehran, Tehran, Iran. |
 | (x) 24 years ago
Wednesday 14th of February 1990
92 die in Indian Airlines Airbus A320-231 Flight 605 crash in Bangalore-Hindustan Airport, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. There were 54 survivors. |
 | (-) 20 years ago
Monday 14th of February 1994
Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is executed by a single gunshot behind the right ear at the age of 58 in Novocherkassk Prison, Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russia. |
 | (x) 18 years ago Long March 3 Lasted Only 3 Seconds
Wednesday 14th of February 1996
The Long March 3 rocket carrying the Intelsat 708 telecommunications satellite is launched in Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Xichang, Sichuan, China. The rocket flies off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashes into a rural village. Estimates suggest that anywhere between 200 to 500 people might have been killed in the crash. |
 | (x) 17 years ago
Friday 14th of February 1997
35-year-old Cannibal Ilshat Kuzikov is arrested and confesses to killing his vodka drinking buddies Sasha Pichonkin, 37-year-old Misha Bochkov and 43-year-old Edik Vassilevski and eating their internal organs in . "You know, I always wanted to be a surgeon, but it's better to be a cannibal. If you're a surgeon you have to put the body back together and you stop having any control over it. But a cannibal kills and then he can do what he wants with the body. After he kills, he owns it forever." |
 | (-) 11 years ago
Friday 14th of February 2003
The first succesfully cloned sheep Dolly dies of a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis at the age of 7 in Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. Dolly's stuffed remains are at the National Museum of Scotland. |
 | (-) 10 years ago
Saturday 14th of February 2004
Serial killer Yang Xinhai aka The Monster Killer is executed by a shot in the back of the head at the age of 36 in Luohe, Henan, China. Yang was found guilty of 67 murders and 23 rapes. "When I killed people I had a desire. This inspired me to kill more. I don't care whether they deserve to live or not. It is none of my concern... I have no desire to be part of society. Society is not my concern." |
 | (x) 2 years ago
Tuesday 14th of February 2012
360 die in Comayagua prison fire in Comayagua Prison, Honduras. An unidentified man reportedly shouted "We will all die here!" before starting the fire. His motives remain unknown. |
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