31st year - N° 123 Monday, 2 May 2016

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31st year - N° 123 Monday, 2 May 2016

2 May / Today's 14 Events:

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(-) 497 years ago Friday 2nd of May 1519 Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, inventor and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci dies of natural causes at the age of 67 in Clos Lucé, Amboise, Centre-Val de Loire, France.

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(x) 480 years ago Saturday 2nd of May 1536 35-year-old Second wife of King Henry VIII Anne Boleyn is arrested and charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 244 years ago Saturday 2nd of May 1772 Romantic poet and writer Novalis, originally Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg is born in Oberwiederstedt, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(+) 113 years ago He Was into Baby and Child Care Saturday 2nd of May 1903 Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 97 years ago Friday 2nd of May 1919 Anarchism theorist Gustav Landauer aka Commissioner of Enlightenment and Public Instruction of the Bavarian Soviet Republic is stoned to death by Freikorps troopers at the age of 49 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stadelheim, Stadelheimer Straße 12, Giesing, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 86 years ago Friday 2nd of May 1930 60-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is arrested for vagrancy in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 80 years ago Saturday 2nd of May 1936 Singer Engelbert Humperdinck, originally Arnold George Dorsey is born in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.

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(-) 71 years ago Wednesday 2nd of May 1945 Nazi official and private secretary to Adolf Hitler Martin Bormann commits suicide by cyanide poisoning at the age of 45 in Lehrter Bahnhof, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. His skeleton was found on 28 december 1972 during construction works near the Lehrter Bahnhof.

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(x) 71 years ago Wednesday 2nd of May 1945 The German radio officially anounces the death of 56-year-old Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 70 years ago It Was Her Mom's Party Thursday 2nd of May 1946 Singer Lesley Gore, originally Lesley Sue Goldstein is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 56 years ago His Red Light Went Off Monday 2nd of May 1960 Robber and rapist Caryl Whittier Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 39 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

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(x) 42 years ago Thursday 2nd of May 1974 23-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen is sentenced to death in Assisenhof, Britselei 55-57, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 17 years ago He Considered Himself Sunday 2nd of May 1999 Actor Oliver Robert Reed dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Valletta, Reġjun Xlokk, Malta. Reed supposedly drank three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer and numerous whiskies in a bar on the night he died.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 2nd of May 2005 An abandoned shack on the beach in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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