30th year - N° 241 Saturday, 29 August 2015

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30th year - N° 241 Saturday, 29 August 2015

29 August / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 153 years ago Friday 29th of August 1862 Poet and writer Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck is born in Peperstraat 6, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 144 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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(+) 100 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1915 Actress Ingrid Bergman is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

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(+) 95 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1920 Musician Charlie Parker aka Bird is born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 92 years ago Wednesday 29th of August 1923 Actor Richard Samuel Attenborough is born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 85 years ago Friday 29th of August 1930 Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 77 years ago Monday 29th of August 1938 Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 73 years ago Saturday 29th of August 1942 Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison known from The Velvet Underground is born in East Meadow, New York, United States.

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(-) 72 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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(+) 57 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) 56 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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(-) 44 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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(-) 38 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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(-) 33 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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(-) 23 years ago Saturday 29th of August 1992 Psychotherapist, philosopher and semiologist Félix Pierre Guattari dies of a heart attack at the age of 62 in Clinique de La Borde, 120 Route de Tour en Sologne, Cour-Cheverny, Centre-Val de Loire, France.

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