30th year - N° 59 Saturday, 28 February 2015

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30th year - N° 59 Saturday, 28 February 2015

28 February / Today's 11 Events:

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(-) 1529 years ago Thursday 28th of February 0486 46th Pope Hilarius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 135 years ago Saturday 28th of February 1880 Victim of John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer Olive Henrietta Olivia Robarts Durand-Deacon is born in Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 109 years ago Wednesday 28th of February 1906 Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago Saturday 28th of February 1942 Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkins Jones is born in Park Nursing Home, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 68 years ago Friday 28th of February 1947 Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising after the confiscation of contraband cigarettes and subsequent killing a 40-year-old widow named Lin Jiang-mai by agents of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau enforcement team in Tianma teahouse, Taiheichō, Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan. Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.

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(+) 65 years ago Tuesday 28th of February 1950 Irish republican hunger striker Francis Hughes, originally Proinsias Ó hAodha is born in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 59 years ago Tuesday 28th of February 1956 Gangster and French public enemy No. 1 for 1950 Émile Buisson aka Mimile is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 55 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1960 Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker is born in El Paso, Texas, United States.

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(+) 55 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1960 Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten, originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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(x) 44 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1971 31-year-old Performance artist Vito Hannibal Acconci performs 'Security Zone' with Lee Jaffe in Pier 18, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Friday 28th of February 1986 26th Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Sven Joachim Palme is shot dead by an unidentified assassin at the age of 59 in Sveavägen, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. Although more than 130 people have confessed to Palme's murder the case remains unsolved.

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30th year - N° 58 Friday, 27 February 2015

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30th year - N° 58 Friday, 27 February 2015

27 February / Today's 12 Events:

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(x) 285 years ago Monday 27th of February 1730 Start of the trial against 55-year-old Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General for the rape of Anne Bond on 10 November 1729 in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The jury quickly found Charteris guilty. On 2 March, he was sentenced to death and held in Newgate Prison. On 10 April 1730 after a substantial campaign to pardon Charteris, joined by Anne Bond, King George II granted him a royal pardon.

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(+) 154 years ago Wednesday 27th of February 1861 Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy is born in Ludbreška ulica 13, Kraljevec, Međimurska županija, Austria-Hungary.

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(-) 128 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1887 Composer Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies of poor health at the age of 54 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 83 years ago Saturday 27th of February 1932 Actress Elizabeth Rosemond 'Liz' Taylor is born in Heathwood, 8 Wildwood Road, Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 82 years ago Monday 27th of February 1933 24-year-old Communist and presumed arsonist Marinus Van der Lubbe known for the Reichstag fire is arrested in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 60 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1955 Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 57 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1958 Punk icon Nancy Laura Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy is born in University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 45 years ago Friday 27th of February 1970 32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 7th 'Abreaktionsspiel' in Aktionsraum 1, Waltherstraße 25, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 31 years ago Monday 27th of February 1984 Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in United States Federal Building and Courthouse, 605 West Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

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(x) 23 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1992 42-year-old Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper is arrested in Miami, Florida, United States.

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(x) 11 years ago Friday 27th of February 2004 116 die in SuperFerry 14 bomb explosion in Manila Bay, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines. Redondo Cain Dellosa later admitted to planting the bomb on board for the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group. Founder of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr. was arrested in Bahrain on 24 July 2008 as the mastermind behind the bombing.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 27th of February 2005 Dorothea Olkowski's impressive high heels during her lecture at AMVK's 'HeadNurse' booklaunch in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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30th year - N° 57 Thursday, 26 February 2015

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30th year - N° 57 Thursday, 26 February 2015

26 February / Today's 11 Events:

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(+) 169 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1846 Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill is born in Napsinekee Hollow, Le Claire, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 163 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1852 Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 101 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1914 Murderer George Ball aka George Sumner aka The Sack Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. He killed his employer Christina Catherine Bradfield in her shop at 86 Old Hall Street in Liverpool on 10 December 1913.

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(+) 83 years ago Friday 26th of February 1932 Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States.

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(x) 72 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 The first transport of Gypsies arrives in KZ Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(x) 56 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1959 Peter Paul Rubens' 'Der Höllensturz der Verdammten' is attacked with acid by 53-year-old Art vandal Walter Menzl in Alte Pinakothek, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 51 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 3 / Klarsichtpackung / Versumpfung in Einer Truhe – Panierung Eines Weiblichen Gesäßes – Wälzen im Schlamm' in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 44 years ago Friday 26th of February 1971 Actor and singer Fernandel, originally Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Avenue Foch, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 29 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1986 50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito is arrested only a few minutes after he had murdered a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. Barbosa was charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months after he escaped from Gorgona prison in Colombia in November 1984.

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(-) 15 years ago Saturday 26th of February 2000 Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 51 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained.

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2 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 26th of February 2013 James Chance and Les Contortions playing live in Magasin 4, Avenue du Port, 51b, Brussel, Belgium.

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30th year - N° 56 Wednesday, 25 February 2015

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30th year - N° 56 Wednesday, 25 February 2015

25 February / Today's 12 Events:

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(+) 142 years ago Tuesday 25th of February 1873 Tenor Enrico Caruso is born in Via San Giovannello agli Ottocalli 7, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(+) 98 years ago Sunday 25th of February 1917 Writer Anthony Burgess, originally John Anthony Burgess Wilson known for his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange is born in 91 Carisbrook Street, Harpurhey, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(-) 93 years ago Saturday 25th of February 1922 Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 53 in Prison Saint Pierre, Place des Tribunaux, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 84 years ago Wednesday 25th of February 1931 Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare is born in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

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(+) 58 years ago Monday 25th of February 1957 Irish republican hunger striker Raymond McCreesh, originally Réamonn Mac Raois is born in Camlough, Armagh, Ireland.

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(+) 56 years ago Wednesday 25th of February 1959 Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is born in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 51 years ago Tuesday 25th of February 1964 Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko dies of unknown causes at the age of 77 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 25th of February 1969 Revolutionary student Jan Zajíc commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 19 in Wenceslas Square, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Around 1:30 in the afternoon Zajíc walked into the passageway of the building at No. 39 on Wenceslas Square and ignited his chemical-soaked clothes. Zajíc was unable to run out of the door and collapsed and died in the hallway. "Mother, father, brother, little sister! – When you read this letter, I will already be dead or close to death. I know what a severe blow my act will be to you, but don't be angry at me. Unfortunately, we are not alone in this world. I am not doing this because I would be tired by life, on the contrary, because I cherish it too much. Hopefully my act will make life better. I know the price of life and I know it is the most precious thing. But I want a lot for you, for everyone, so I have to pay a lot. Do not lose your heart after my sacrifice, tell Jacek to study harder and Marta too. You must never accept injustice, be it in any form, my death will bind you. I am sorry that I will never see you or that, which I loved so much. Please forgive me that I fought with you so much. Do not let them make me a madman. – Say hi to the boys, the river and the forest."

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45 years ago

Wednesday 25th of February 1970

Abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, originally Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz commits suicide by slashing his arms at the age of 67 in 118 E. 95th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

Rothko's body was found by his assistant Oliver Steindecker when Steindecker arrived in the morning for work. Rothko was lying face-up on the kitchen floor of his studio in a pool of blood, his arms outstretched. He was dressed in an undershirt, long johns and long black socks. He had removed his glasses, shoes and trousers (which were found folded over the back of a chair) before slitting his arms with a double-edged razor. He first took the razor in his right hand (after ca refully wrapping a tissue over one one side of the razor) and made a cut in his left arm. He then switched the razor to his left hand and made an even deeper cut in his right arm. Both cuts were made just below the bend of the elbow. The autopsy revealed that Rothko had also overdosed on anti-depressants.

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(x) 33 years ago Thursday 25th of February 1982 23-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Resonantiepunctie' in an exhibition of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Zeno X Gallery, Leopold De Waelplaats, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 25th of February 1983 Writer and playwright Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams chokes to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops he frequently used in his suite at the age of 72 in Hotel Elysee, 60 East 54th Street, New York City, New York, United States. Williams' use of drugs and alcohol may have contributed to his death by suppressing his gag reflex.

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8 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 25th of February 2007 My 'Bastard Art' piece 'Erd-Ecke' in  'The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience' exhibition in NICC, Museumstraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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30th year - N° 55 Tuesday, 24 February 2015

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30th year - N° 55 Tuesday, 24 February 2015

24 February / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 515 years ago Saturday 24th of February 1500 Holy Roman Emperor Karl V is born in Prinsenhof, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 479 years ago Monday 24th of February 1536 231st Pope Clemens VIII, originally Ippolito Aldobrandini is born in Fano, Marche, Italy.

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(-) 283 years ago Sunday 24th of February 1732 Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General dies of natural causes at the age of 57 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 229 years ago Friday 24th of February 1786 Folklorist and mythologist Wilhelm Karl Grimm is born in Hanau, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 140 years ago Wednesday 24th of February 1875 102 die in SS Gothenburg shipwreck in Holbourne Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

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(+) 93 years ago Friday 24th of February 1922 Pop artist Richard William Hamilton is born in Pimlico, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 88 years ago Thursday 24th of February 1927 Muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso Jacqueline Roque is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 48 years ago Friday 24th of February 1967 36-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man escapes in Bridgewater State Hospital, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. DeSalvo was arrested 30 hours later in West Lynn, Massachusetts.

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(x) 46 years ago Monday 24th of February 1969 18-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen escapes from reformatory school in Ruiselede, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Van Eyken left the country for the Netherlands.

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(x) 46 years ago Monday 24th of February 1969 37-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black plays live in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

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(-) 45 years ago Tuesday 24th of February 1970 Assassin Josef Erwin Bachmann known for shooting Rudi Dutschke commits suicide by asphyxia with a plastic bag at the age of 26 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Tegel, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 42 years ago Saturday 24th of February 1973 Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by 27-year-old Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, 24-year-old Toni Antoinette Denise White, 21-year-old James Cyril Cendrillon and 17-year-old Alphons Joseph Klimek at the age of 20 in Raynes Park Road, Hampton, Australia. "After confronting her and asking more questions it came out that she had sex feelings about the hose on the vacuum cleaner and bananas in a bowl in the room. We all slapped her and she was punched in the stomach. She fell when she was pushed and hit her head on the floor."

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15 years ago

Thursday 24th of February 2000

Murderess Betty Lou Beets, originally Betty Lou Dunevant is executed by lethal injection at the age of 63 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Beets was convicted to death for shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on 6 August 1983. Also found buried in a garage were the remains of another Beets' husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. Beets did not request a final meal.

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(-) 9 years ago Friday 24th of February 2006 Actor Dennis William Weaver dies of cancer at the age of 82 in Ridgway, Colorado, United States.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 24th of February 2006 The Rue Le Sueur where Serial Killer Dr. Marcel Petiot killed about 63 people at n° 21 (the original building however was torn down) in his infamous 'Triangular Chamber of Death', before and during WWII in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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