31st year - N° 140 Thursday, 19 May 2016

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31st year - N° 140 Thursday, 19 May 2016

19 May / Today's 21 Events:

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(-) 480 years ago Tuesday 19th of May 1536 Second wife of King Henry VIII Anne Boleyn is executed by beheading at the age of 35 in Tower of London, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. She had been charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. She knelt upright, in the French style of executions. The execution consisted of a single stroke.

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(+) 160 years ago Monday 19th of May 1856 Victim of Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor Benjamin Freelon Pitezel is born in Galva, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 146 years ago Thursday 19th of May 1870 Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

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(+) 135 years ago Thursday 19th of May 1881 Army officer, revolutionary and first President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk aka Father of the Turks is born in Islahhane Street, Salonica, Macedonia, Greece.

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(+) 126 years ago Monday 19th of May 1890 Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, originally Nguyễn Sinh Côn aka Nguyễn Tất Thành aka Nguyễn Ái Quốc is born in Hoàng Trù, Nam Đàn, Kim Liên, Nghệ An, Vietnam.

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(+) 106 years ago Thursday 19th of May 1910 Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi Nathuram Vinayak Godse is born in Baramati, Maharashtra, India.

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(-) 98 years ago Sunday 19th of May 1918 Artist Ferdinand Hodler dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in Genève, Romandie, Switzerland.

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(+) 91 years ago Tuesday 19th of May 1925 Revolutionary black activist Malcolm X, originally Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz is born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago He Had a Sar Complexion Saturday 19th of May 1928 Cambodian socialist revolutionary and leader of the Khmer Rouge Pol Pot, originally Saloth Sar is born in Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thom, Cambodia.

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(x) 88 years ago Saturday 19th of May 1928 195 die in Mather Collieries coal mine explosion in Mather, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Friday 19th of May 1933 Murderer Claude Buffet is born in Reims, Marne, France.

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(-) 81 years ago Sunday 19th of May 1935 Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia dies due to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days earlier at the age of 47 in Clouds Hill, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom.

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(+) 68 years ago They Hadn't Seen that Face Before Wednesday 19th of May 1948 Model, singer-songwriter and actress Grace Beverly Jones aka Grace Mendoza is born in Spanish Town, Middlesex, Jamaica.

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(+) 65 years ago Saturday 19th of May 1951 Musician Joey Ramone, originally Jeffrey Ross Hyman is born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago Wednesday 19th of May 1954 Modernist composer Charles Edward Ives dies of a stroke at the age of 80 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 45 years ago Wednesday 19th of May 1971 The fresh corpse of 40-year-old Kenneth Whitacre is found on the ranch of 37-year-old Serial killer Juan Vallejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer in Yuba City, California, United States. In the next days a total of 24 bodies was excavated from Corona's ranch.

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(-) 22 years ago Thursday 19th of May 1994 First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy dies of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 65 in 1040 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, New York, New York, United States.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 19th of May 2001 Pressure gauges at an abandoned factory in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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14 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 19th of May 2002 The fortress where Marquis de Sade was imprisoned in 1777 and where he remained until February 1784 when it was closed and de Sade was transferred to the Bastille in Château de Vincennes, Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France.

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(x) 9 years ago Saturday 19th of May 2007 48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Wie Man dem Zerrissenen Hasen die Aktionskunst Erklärt' in Kulttuuritalo Annis, Annankatu 6, Pori, Satakunta, Finland. I took a wooden crate with 15kgs of dirt from my hole on the airplane and buried it close to the culture center. The performance started with digging up the crate to everybody's amazement. I carried the crate inside and hacked it to pieces with a spade. I took a toy hare and removed the filling with my mouth. Then I filled the empty hare with dirt, also using my mouth to do that. Then I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art where I spread the dirt in several spaces. The empty hare was left behind at night in a children's playground.

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(x) 4 years ago Saturday 19th of May 2012 53-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Fatal Motorcycle Bumper Pull Up of Ho Chi Minh and Joey Ramone as if Composed by Charles Ives' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Mu.ZEE, Romestraat 11, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. A music performance of Club Moral with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven whereby I screamed with my head in a bucket filled with water crawled on the floor between the audience and ate dirt from my hole. On 19 May Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, Grace Jones and Joey Ramone were born and Lawrence of Arabia, Charles Ives and Jackie Kennedy died.

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