29th year - N° 147 Tuesday, 27 May 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 147 Tuesday, 27 May 2014

27 May / Today's 24 Events:

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(x) 187 years ago Sunday 27th of May 1827 18-year-old Writer Edgar Allan Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Fort Independence, Castle Island, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Poe claimed he was 22 years old even though he was 18 and first served at Fort Independence for five dollars a month.

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(+) 177 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1837 Lawman, gunfighter and gambler Bill James Butler Hickok, originally Wild Bill Hickok is born in Troy Grove Park, Homer, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 174 years ago The Devil Won Wednesday 27th of May 1840 Composer Niccolò Paganini dies of internal hemorrhaging due to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 58 in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Because a priest arrived too late to perform the last rites on Paganini, and his widely rumored association with the devil, the Church denied his body a Catholic burial.

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(+) 164 years ago Monday 27th of May 1850 Serial killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 160 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1854 Slave and murderess Jane Elkins is executed by hanging in Dallas, Texas, United States. Elkins was the first woman to be executed in Texas. She was convicted of killing her master named Wisdom with an axe-blow to the head.

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(-) 151 years ago Wednesday 27th of May 1863 Murderer Claudius C. Frizell is executed by hanging in Fort Scott, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 136 years ago Monday 27th of May 1878 Dancer Isadora Angela Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 123 years ago Wednesday 27th of May 1891 37-year-old Poet Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud has his right leg amputated because of carcinoma in Hôpital de la Conception, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. The post-operative diagnosis was that Rimbaud suffered bone cancer—probably osteosarcoma.

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(+) 120 years ago Sunday 27th of May 1894 Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett is born in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, United States.

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(+) 120 years ago Sunday 27th of May 1894 Writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine, originally Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches is born in 11 Rampe du Pont-de-Neuilly, Courbevoie, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 117 years ago Thursday 27th of May 1897 Claudius Beaupied is strangled by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 103 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1911 Actor Vincent Leonard Price is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 95 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 1919 Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Herman Koch dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 93 years ago Friday 27th of May 1921 Robber and rapist Caryl Whittier Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit is born in St. Joseph, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 92 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1922 Actor Christopher Frank Carandini Lee known for his role as Count Dracula is born in Belgravia, London, West London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 91 years ago Sunday 27th of May 1923 Politician and diplomat Henry Alfred Kissinger, originally Heinz Alfred Kissinger is born in Fürth, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 74 years ago Monday 27th of May 1940 Murderer Mateo Quinionis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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(x) 73 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 1941 37-year-old Nazi leader and SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík in Heydrich's bend, Vychovatelna, Libeň, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London resolved to kill Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. Heydrich survived with severe injuries to his left side, with major damage to his diaphragm, spleen, and lung and a fractured rib. Heydrich slipped in a coma on 2 June and died on 4 June 1941.

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(+) 56 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 1958 Serial killer Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer is born in Dixie Hills, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 54 years ago Friday 27th of May 1960 Broker and reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze is born in Rochester, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 20 years ago Friday 27th of May 1994 Triple murderer Charles Rodman Campbell is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Walla Walla, Washington, United States.

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(-) 20 years ago Friday 27th of May 1994 Cop killer Stephen Ray Nethery is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 27th of May 2002 A rainbow over the rooftops in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 11 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 2003 Composer Luciano Berio dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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