Monday, August 29, 2016

31st year - N° 242 Monday, 29 August 2016

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31st year - N° 242 Monday, 29 August 2016

29 August / Today's 15 Events:
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154 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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145 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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101 years ago

Sunday 29th of August 1915

Actress Ingrid Bergman is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.


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96 years ago

Sunday 29th of August 1920

Musician Charlie Parker aka Bird is born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.


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93 years ago

Wednesday 29th of August 1923

Actor Richard Samuel Attenborough is born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.


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86 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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78 years ago

Monday 29th of August 1938

Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.


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74 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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73 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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58 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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57 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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45 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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39 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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34 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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24 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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