31st year - N° 224 Thursday, 11 August 2016

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31st year - N° 224 Thursday, 11 August 2016

11 August / Today's 13 Events:

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(x) 124 years ago Thursday 11th of August 1892 32-year-old Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is arrested on suspicion of hacking her parents to death in Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 103 years ago Monday 11th of August 1913 Writer Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson is born in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(-) 87 years ago Habe Er Blut in Sich Aufgenommen Sunday 11th of August 1929 Maria Hahn is stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Papendell, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. "Ich hatte der Hahn zuerst eine Verletzung am Halse beigebracht. Aus dieser Verletzung habe ich Blut in mich aufgenommen von der Hahn, größere Mengen. (Frage [von Prof. Sioli, Anm. JNK]: Sie meinen getrunken?) Ja. Hierbei trat die Auslösung der sexuellen Erregung ein. Das getrunkene Blut habe ich nachher wieder ausgebrochen."

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(+) 84 years ago Thursday 11th of August 1932 Film director and writer Fernando Arrabal, originally Fernando Arrabal Terán is born in Melilla, Ciudad autónoma de Melilla, Spain.

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(+) 83 years ago Friday 11th of August 1933 Theatre director Jerzy Marian Grotowski is born in Rzeszów, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland.

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(+) 68 years ago Wednesday 11th of August 1948 Simpletone Rudy Cabie is born in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 68 years ago Wednesday 11th of August 1948 Revolutionary student Jan Palach aka Pochodeň č. 1 is born in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 59 years ago Sunday 11th of August 1957 White Power punk rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson is born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 37 years ago Saturday 11th of August 1979 34-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company burns the remains of Stephen Holmes, murdered on 30 December 1978, in his back garden in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 36 years ago Monday 11th of August 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Untitled Series - 4' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. With a razorblade I have cut 6 crosses in my body going from my left shoulder to my left knee.

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(-) 22 years ago Thursday 11th of August 1994 Actor Peter Wilton Cushing known for playing Baron Victor Frankenstein and Professor Van Helsing dies of prostate cancer at the age of 81 in Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 11th of August 1999 A sun eclipse as seen through my welding gear in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 11th of August 2003 A weird roadside shack on the outskirts of town in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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