29th year - N° 243 Sunday, 31 August 2014

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29th year - N° 243 Sunday, 31 August 2014

31 August / Today's 8 Events:

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(-) 147 years ago Saturday 31st of August 1867 Poet and art critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire known for ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 46 in 1 Rue du Dôme, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 108 years ago Friday 31st of August 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Wilhelm Schulze is born in Godshorn, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 81 years ago Thursday 31st of August 1933 Philosopher Theodor Lessing is assassinated by Sudeten German Nazi sympathizers at the age of 61 in Mariánské Lázně, Karlovarský Kraj, Czechoslovakia. Lessing was shot through a window of the villa where he lived on the night before by Rudolf Max Eckert, Rudolf Zischka and Karl Hönl. In June it was reported in Sudeten newspapers that a reward had been announced for Lessing's capture.

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(+) 79 years ago Saturday 31st of August 1935 Minister of Information of the Black Panthers Eldridge Leroy Cleaver known for Soul on Ice is born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, United States.

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(-) 31 years ago Wednesday 31st of August 1983 Ralph Calise is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 29 years ago Saturday 31st of August 1985 25-year-old Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker is recognized and chased by members of the Hispanic community Jose Burgoin and Faustino Pinon, beaten up and finally arrested by a patrolman named Ramirez in 3700 Hubbard Street, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 31st of August 2001 A view on the North Sea from atop the highest building in Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 9 years ago Wednesday 31st of August 2005 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Vel' with Tim Vanhamel in Factor 44, Bleekhofstraat 44, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. With Tim Vanhamel I made a Noise performance about 'Thaipoosam', a Hindi religious festival I attended in the Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

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29th year - N° 242 Saturday, 30 August 2014

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29th year - N° 242 Saturday, 30 August 2014

30 August / Today's 7 Events:

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(x) 96 years ago Friday 30th of August 1918 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, originally Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov is shot by revolutionary Fanya Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. Kaplan approached Lenin at his automobile after a meeting at the Former Michelson Works; he was resting a foot on the running board as he spoke with a woman. Kaplan called to Lenin, and when he turned to face her she shot at him three times. The first bullet struck his arm, the second bullet his jaw and neck, and the third missed him, wounding the woman with whom he was speaking. The wounds felled him and he became unconscious."My name is Fanya Kaplan. Today I shot at Lenin. I did i t 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."

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(-) 79 years ago Friday 30th of August 1935 Writer Henri Barbusse dies of pneumonia at the age of 62 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(-) 44 years ago Sunday 30th of August 1970 Amateur filmmaker Abraham Zapruder known for his JFK Assassination Movie dies of stomach cancer at the age of 65 in Dallas, Texas, United States.

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(x) 39 years ago Saturday 30th of August 1975 29-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, United States. Bundy later converted to Hinduism while on death row.

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(-) 35 years ago Thursday 30th of August 1979 Actress Jean Dorothy Seberg commits suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol at the age of 41 in Rue du Général-Appert, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Seberg was found on 8 September 1979 in the backseat of her white Renault 5.

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(-) 10 years ago Monday 30th of August 2004 Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges dies of a heart disease at the age of 70 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 7 years ago Thursday 30th of August 2007 The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 58-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Louise Van Houten aka Lulu in California Institution for Women, Chino, California, United States. It was Van Houten's 18th unsuccessful application.

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29th year - N° 241 Friday, 29 August 2014

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29th year - N° 241 Friday, 29 August 2014

29 August / Today's 9 Events:

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(+) 143 years ago Tuesday 29th of August 1871 The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater is born in Magothy, Maryland, United States.

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(+) 99 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1915 Actress Ingrid Bergman is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

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76 years ago Monday 29th of August 1938 Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 71 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1943 Murderess Mildred Mary Bolton commits suicide by cutting her wrists with a pair of scissors at the age of 57 in Dwight Correctional Center, 23813 E. 3200 North Road, Nevada Township, Dwight, Illinois, United States. Bolton was the first woman ever sentenced to the electric chair in Cook County.

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(+) 56 years ago Friday 29th of August 1958 Singer-songwriter and actor Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop is born in 2300 Jackson Street, Gary, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 55 years ago Saturday 29th of August 1959 34-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey rapes an unidentified girl in Grouville, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 43 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1971 Kidnapper and murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer dies of a diabetes-related heart attack at the age of 67 in Adjuntas, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Leopold's corneas were donated.

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(-) 37 years ago He Called for Joseph Monday 29th of August 1977 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Brigham Young dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 176 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Young's last words were "Joseph! Joseph! Joseph!", invoking the name of the late Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon faith.

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(-) 32 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1982 Actress Ingrid Bergman dies of breast cancer at the age of 67 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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29th year - N° 240 Thursday, 28 August 2014

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29th year - N° 240 Thursday, 28 August 2014

28 August / Today's 1 Events:

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(+) 265 years ago Thursday 28th of August 1749 Poet, writer and botanist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born in Goethe Haus, 23 Großer Hirschgraben, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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29th year - N° 239 Wednesday, 27 August 2014

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29th year - N° 239 Wednesday, 27 August 2014

27 August / Today's 10 Events:

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(-) 121 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1893 Carpenter and inventor Peter Mitterhofer known for inventing the typewriter dies of natural causes at the age of 71 in Partschins, Südtirol, Austria.

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(x) 108 years ago Monday 27th of August 1906 0-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer is baptised in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 102 years ago Tuesday 27th of August 1912 The 77-year-old father of 43-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais commits suicide by hanging in Bois de Boulogne, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Julien-Alexandre Sylvain Landru could not stand the disgrace due to his son's criminal activities and prison sentences any longer.

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(-) 93 years ago Saturday 27th of August 1921 Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See is executed by beheading at the age of 28 in Strafgefängnis Plötzensee, Plötzensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. His last meal request was for "Bouletten mit Teltower Rübchen und zum Nachtisch ein schön suppiges Grieß-flammeri mit Blaubeer-Kompott. Zudem gab es eine richtige Weiße mit Schuss, serviert im Weißbierglas." After his last meal he confessed to 14 more murders, bringing his total to 25.

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(+) 50 years ago Thursday 27th of August 1964 Serial killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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(-) 36 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1978 Artist Gordon Matta-Clark, originally Gordon Roberto Echaurren Matta dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 35 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1989 33-year-old Serial killer groupie Veronica Ver Lyn Compton marries 60-year-old James P. Wallace, a retired Eastern Washington University (EWU) professor in Washington Corrections Center for Women, 9601 Bujacich Rd., Gig Harbor, Washington, United States. Compton and Wallace were granted conjugal visits and in 1993, she gave birth to a daughter at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma. She returned to prison while Wallace and Compton's mother cared for the baby.

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(x) 19 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1995 36-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Marteling van de Heilige Erasmus' in Kapel van de Romaanse Poort, Brusselsestraat 63, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. The audience entered the space through a glass door. Then I tied a thin rope to the outside of the door lay down on the ground and tied my feet to two posts on the street. The other end of the rope I swallowed. The performance stopped when someone opened the door from the inside.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 27th of August 2007 The house where on 14 May 1970 Ulrike Meinhof assisted in the freeing of Andreas Baader with Gudrun Ensslin, Irene Goergens and Ingrid Schubert, and jumped in the underground through this window in Deutsches Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen, Miquelstraße 83, Dahlem, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 27th of August 2007 The location of a 1940s crime scene of serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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29th year - N° 238 Tuesday, 26 August 2014

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29th year - N° 238 Tuesday, 26 August 2014

26 August / Today's 8 Events:

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(+) 134 years ago Thursday 26th of August 1880 Surrealist writer Guillaume Apollinaire, originally Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 64 years ago Saturday 26th of August 1950 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Ransom Eli Olds dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Olds Mansion, South Washington Avenue, Lansing, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 55 years ago Wednesday 26th of August 1959 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Anthony Hughes is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Wednesday 26th of August 1970 25-year-old Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder marries Ingrid Caven in Feldkirchen, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 42 years ago Saturday 26th of August 1972 37-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker is released from prison on bail after being charged with child-abuse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 31 years ago Friday 26th of August 1983 36-year-old Serial killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer is sentenced to die for four murders in Orange County, California, United States. Bonin was already sentenced to death for 10 murders in Los Angeles County.

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(x) 14 years ago Saturday 26th of August 2000 67-year-old Gangster Reginald Kray aka Reggie Kray is released from prison on compassionate grounds in Wayland Prison, Griston, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 26th of August 2007 The grave of student leader Rudi Dutschke in St.-Annen-Kirchhof, Dahlem, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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29th year - N° 237 Monday, 25 August 2014

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29th year - N° 237 Monday, 25 August 2014

25 August / Today's 8 Events:

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(x) 107 years ago Sunday 25th of August 1907 33-year-old Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l'Ogresse de la Goutte d'Or is sent to an asylum in Nanterre, Île-de-France, France. Weber was only briefly confined to the asylum and the doctors there pronounced her sane and set her free.

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(+) 102 years ago Sunday 25th of August 1912 General Secretary of the East German Socialist Unity Party Erich Honecker is born in Max-Braun-Straße, Neunkirchen, Saarland, Germany.

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(+) 96 years ago Sunday 25th of August 1918 Composer Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 68 years ago Sunday 25th of August 1946 19-year-old Serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer is arrested and charged with first degree robbery in Ontario Street, Albany, New York, United States.

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(-) 58 years ago Saturday 25th of August 1956 Sexologist Alfred Charles Kinsey dies of a heart disease and pneumonia at the age of 62 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 58 years ago Saturday 25th of August 1956 A huge number of books, journals and papers of 59-year-old Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich are burned by FDA officials in Gansevoort Street Destructor Plant, Bloomfield Street, New York, New York, United States.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 25th of August 1999 A black swan in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.

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(x) 10 years ago Wednesday 25th of August 2004 The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 55-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Louise Van Houten aka Lulu for the fifteenth time in California Institution for Women, Chino, California, United States.

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