33rd year - N° 129 Wednesday, 9 May 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 129 Wednesday, 9 May 2018

9 May / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 181 years ago Tuesday 9th of May 1837 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Adam Opel is born in Rüsselsheim, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 158 years ago Wednesday 9th of May 1860 Murderer William Francis Kemmler aka John Hart known for becoming the first man executed using an electric chair is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 144 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1874 Archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter known for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun is born in Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 111 years ago Thursday 9th of May 1907 Nazi leader and Reichsjugendführer Baldur Benedikt von Schirach is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 110 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1908 Arbeitseinsatzführerin in Ravensbrück KZ Greta Bösel, originally Greta Müller is born in Elberfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 106 years ago Thursday 9th of May 1912 Actor Pedro Armendáriz, originally Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings is born in Mexico City, Mexico.

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(+) 97 years ago War Sie Eine Weiße Rose Monday 9th of May 1921 Founding member of the Weiße Rose resistant group Sophie Magdalena Scholl is born in Rathaus, Hauptstraße 14, Forchtenberg am Kocher, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 94 years ago Friday 9th of May 1924 Heinz Martin is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 59 years ago Saturday 9th of May 1959 Dorothy Pearce is raped and beaten to death by serial killer Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy in Southlands Beach, Bermuda, United Kingdom.

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(-) 50 years ago Thursday 9th of May 1968 Poet and Lesbian Rights pioneer Mercedes de Acosta dies of a brain tumour at the age of 75 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Sunday 9th of May 1976 Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof commits suicide by hanging with a towel at the age of 42 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 35 years ago Monday 9th of May 1983 Jimmy Roberts is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 35 years ago Monday 9th of May 1983 The body of 21-year-old Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer Daniel Scott McNieve is found in Clayton, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 32 years ago Friday 9th of May 1986 Pierre Carette, Bernard Sassoye, Didier Chevolet and Pascale Vandegeerde of Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC start hungerstriking in the prisons of St. Gillis and Vorst in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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16 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 9th of May 2002 A plot forbidden for flying objects in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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