Monday, February 12, 2018

33rd year - N° 43 Monday, 12 February 2018

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33rd year - N° 43 Monday, 12 February 2018

12 February / Today's 38 Events:
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214 years ago War es Gut

Sunday 12th of February 1804

Philosopher Immanuel Kant dies of poor health at the age of 80 in Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

Kant's last words were "Es ist gut".


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209 years ago

Sunday 12th of February 1809

Naturalist, geologist and evolutionary theorist Charles Robert Darwin is born in The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom.


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209 years ago

Sunday 12th of February 1809

16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln is born in Sinking Spring, Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States.


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157 years ago

Tuesday 12th of February 1861

Psychoanalyst and writer Lou Andreas-Salomé, originally Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.


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151 years ago

Tuesday 12th of February 1867

Writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler is born in Nebra, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.


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141 years ago

Monday 12th of February 1877

Automobile manufacturing pioneer Louis Renault is born in 14 Place de Laborde, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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136 years ago

Sunday 12th of February 1882

Prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, originally Anna Pavlovna Matveyevna Pavlova known for her role as The Dying Swan is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.


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134 years ago

Tuesday 12th of February 1884

Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer Max Beckmann is born in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.


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125 years ago

Sunday 12th of February 1893

War leader Omar Nelson Bradley aka The G.I. '​s General is born in Clark, Missouri, United States.


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111 years ago

Tuesday 12th of February 1907

131 die in Larchmont Steamer shipwreck in Block Island, Rhode Island, United States.


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109 years ago

Friday 12th of February 1909

Nazi doctor Sigmund Rascher known for his ‘freezing experiments’ on behalf of the Luftwaffe is born in München, Bayern, Germany.


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105 years ago

Wednesday 12th of February 1913

Murderer Frederick Poulin is executed by Old Sparky in Dannemora Prison, Dannemora, New York, United States.

Poulin was the last man executed by the electric chair in Clinton Prison.


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100 years ago

Tuesday 12th of February 1918

Black Jim McIlherron is chained to a tree and tortured to death with heated irons and a bonfire by a mob of 1200 locals in Estill Springs, Tennessee, United States.


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95 years ago

Monday 12th of February 1923

Fritz Franke is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Neue Straße 8, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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77 years ago

Wednesday 12th of February 1941

Johanna Voigt is attacked and thrown out of a train by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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76 years ago

Thursday 12th of February 1942

Doris Jouannet aka Doris Robson is stabbed and sexually mutilated by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in 187 Sussex Gardens, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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70 years ago

Thursday 12th of February 1948

Archibald Henderson is shot in the head and solved in acid by serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer in 2 Leopold Road, Crawley, Sussex, United Kingdom.

Haigh then lured the doctor's 41-year-old wife Rosalie Henderson to his workhop and killed her as well.


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66 years ago

Tuesday 12th of February 1952

Serial killer Larry Craig Green aka The Zebra Killer is born in Berkeley, California, United States.


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64 years ago

Friday 12th of February 1954

Film director Dziga Vertov, originally David Abelevich Kaufman known for Man with a Movie Camera dies of cancer at the age of 58 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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62 years ago

Sunday 12th of February 1956

Murderer Willie Ray Williams is born in Houston, Texas, United States.


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55 years ago

Tuesday 12th of February 1963

Victim of Randall Woodfield aka the I-5 Killer Julie Ann Reitz is born in Lansing, Illinois, United States.


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47 years ago

Friday 12th of February 1971

29-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is arrested and charged with assault of a teenage boy in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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43 years ago

Wednesday 12th of February 1975

Double murderer Christopher Jay Swift is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.


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39 years ago

Monday 12th of February 1979

Film director Jean Renoir dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.


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38 years ago

Tuesday 12th of February 1980

34-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is convicted to death for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orange County Courthouse, 65 East Central Boulevard, Orlando, Florida, United States.


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34 years ago

Sunday 12th of February 1984

Writer Julio Jules Florencio Cortázar aka The Simón Bolívar of the Novel dies of leukemia at the age of 70 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Some sources state that Cortázar died from AIDS as a result of receiving a blood transfusion.


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32 years ago

Wednesday 12th of February 1986

Diamond merchant Lazare Kaplan known for cutting the 726-carat Jonker diamond dies of natural causes at the age of 102 in Lew Beach, New York, United States.


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29 years ago

Sunday 12th of February 1989

Writer Thomas Nicolaas Bernhard dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Gmunden, Oberösterreich, Austria.


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25 years ago

Friday 12th of February 1993

Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulger is abducted, tortured and stoned to death by 11-year-old Jon Venables and Robert Thompson at the age of 3 in Strand Shopping Centre, Bootle, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.


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24 years ago

Saturday 12th of February 1994

48-year-old Mass murderer Freddy Horion aka De Zonnebril tries to escape through a hole in the wall of his cell in Leuven Centraal, Geldenaaksevest 64, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

Horion was caught in the prison courtyard.


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24 years ago

Saturday 12th of February 1994

Minimal artist Donald Clarence Judd dies of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 66 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.


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19 years ago

Friday 12th of February 1999

Mass murderer Edwin Bell commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 24 in Gardenwood Apartments, 1925 N. Gary Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

Minutes before Bell shot his 45-year-old mother Linda Farris, his 21-year-old wife Markita King and his children, 4-year-old Ebony, 2-year-old Essyce, and 8-month-old Marjonna.


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18 years ago

Saturday 12th of February 2000

Musician Jalacy Hawkins aka Screamin' Jay Hawkins dies of an aneurism at the age of 71 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.


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15 years ago

Wednesday 12th of February 2003

Murderer Richard Edwin Fox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.


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14 years ago

Thursday 12th of February 2004

Double murderer Bobby Hopkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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11 years ago

Monday 12th of February 2007

Mass murderer Sulejman Talović is shot dead by a police SWAT team at the age of 19 in Trolley Square Mall, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Talović had shot five people and wounded four in a shooting spree for no apparent reason. Talović's body was later found to have been struck a total of 15 times by bullets fired by police. The entire shooting lasted for six minutes.



7 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 12th of February 2011

The selector dancing to exclusive tracks from the 'Sound as a Weapon' releases by 'De Player' on the live launch event in De Player, Tolhuisstraat 107 BG, Katendrecht, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.


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7 years ago

Saturday 12th of February 2011

52-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Head of Waldo's Penis' in De Player, Tolhuisstraat 107 BG, Katendrecht, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

A music performance with machines and voice for the presentation of 'Sound as a Weapon'.


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