29th year - N° 230 Monday, 18 August 2014

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29th year - N° 230 Monday, 18 August 2014

18 August / Today's 6 Events:

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(-) 380 years ago Friday 18th of August 1634 Priest and philanderer Urbain Grandier aka The Devil of Loudun is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 44 in Loudun, Poitou-Charentes, France. Grandier supposedly bewitched an entire Ursuline nun convent into debauchery.

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(x) 95 years ago Monday 18th of August 1919 26-year-old Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See shoots 52-year-old forester Wilhelm Nielbock in Hohenhorster Weg, Falkensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Earlier that day Schumann had already shot an unidentified man on his bicycle on Spandauer Chaussee. Before succombing, Nielbock also fired a hailshot at Schumann. When Schumann went to see a doctor two days later, he was arrested.

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(+) 81 years ago Friday 18th of August 1933 Film director Roman Polanski, originally Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 45 years ago Monday 18th of August 1969 64-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess is arrested in San Francisco after a six-year period of escape in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Judd became a live-in maid for a wealthy family living in a mansion overlooking the bay using the name Marian Lane.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 18th of August 2003 A devoted fan with a dubious t-shirt at Ruangrupa in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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8 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 18th of August 2006 Our cat Harry helping out with archiving Club Moral documents in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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