31st year - N° 126 Thursday, 5 May 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 126 Thursday, 5 May 2016

5 May / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 203 years ago Wednesday 5th of May 1813 Philosopher, theologian and social critic Søren Aabye Kierkegaard is born in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

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(+) 198 years ago Tuesday 5th of May 1818 Economist and revolutionary communist Karl Heinrich Marx is born in Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(+) 102 years ago Tuesday 5th of May 1914 Actor Tyrone Edmund Power is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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(x) 97 years ago Monday 5th of May 1919 A female torso, presumed victim of 56-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof is found in Luisenstädtischer Kanal, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. On 17 May 1919 the head, pelvis and parts of meat are found in the river Spree close to Jungfernheide railway station.

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(+) 77 years ago Friday 5th of May 1939 Actress Samantha Victoria Louise Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar is born in Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 49 years ago Friday 5th of May 1967 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Ernest Miller is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago Monday 5th of May 1975 48-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is sentenced to 60 years imprisonment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 35 years ago Tuesday 5th of May 1981 Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Robert Gerard Sands, originally Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh dies after 66 days of hungerstriking at the age of 27 in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Sands was the first to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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(x) 35 years ago Tuesday 5th of May 1981 Start of the trial against 35-year-old Serial killer Peter William Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 5th of May 2001 Racks stacked with abandoned ICC art catalogues in Montebellostraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 11 years ago Thursday 5th of May 2005 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Noise-Electronics-Computerpunk' in Art-Klub Premiera, Svetlanskaya 15a, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. A music performance with electronics and voices with punk guitarist Mityai, followed by a duet with a Tibetan-Mongolian throatsinger.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 5th of May 2007 Chilling reminiscenses of the Stasi past in Untersuchungshaftanstalt Hohenschönhausen, Genslerstraße 66, Lichtenberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 9 years ago Saturday 5th of May 2007 114 die in Kenya Airways Boeing 737-8AL Flight 507 crash in Douala International Airport, Mbanga Pongo, Douala, Kenya.

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