33rd year - N° 221 Thursday, 9 August 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 221 Thursday, 9 August 2018

9 August / Today's 16 Events:

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(+) 122 years ago Sunday 9th of August 1896 Developmental psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget is born in Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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(+) 119 years ago Wednesday 9th of August 1899 Chief executioner André Albert Obrecht is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Obrecht was the official executioner of France from 1951 until 1976.

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(+) 100 years ago Friday 9th of August 1918 Film director Robert Burgess Aldrich is born in Cranston, Rhode Island, United States.

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(-) 76 years ago Sunday 9th of August 1942 Martyr and saint of the Catholic Church Edith Stein aka St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross dies in the gas chambers at the age of 51 in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, Birkenau, Małopolska, Poland.

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(-) 56 years ago Thursday 9th of August 1962 Writer Hermann Karl Hesse aka Emil Sinclair known for his novel Steppenwolf dies of a stroke at the age of 85 in Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland.

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(+) 55 years ago Friday 9th of August 1963 Singer, actress and model Whitney Elizabeth Houston is born in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 55 years ago Friday 9th of August 1963 Singer, actress and model Whitney Elizabeth Houston is born in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

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(x) 50 years ago Friday 9th of August 1968 34-year-old Family leader Charles Milles Manson, originally no name Maddox known for conspiracy to murder Sharon Tate overdubs some tracks of his music in San Francisco, California, United States. All tracks appear on the Lp "Lie: The Love and Terror Cult" that was distributed during Manson's trial for the Tate/LaBianca murders in 1970.

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(-) 49 years ago Saturday 9th of August 1969 Pregnant Sharon Marie Tate is stabbed to death by criminal hippy gang the Manson Family in 10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California, United States. In the same event 35-year-old Jay Sebring, 25-year-old Abigail Folger, 32-year-old Wojiciech 'Voytek' Frykowski and 18-year-old Steven Parrent were also killed. Charles Manson directed Family member Tex Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian and Patricia Krenwinkel to "that house where Melcher used to live" and "totally destroy everyone in it, as gruesome as you can."

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(x) 48 years ago Sunday 9th of August 1970 45-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 13-year-old boy in Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 43 years ago Saturday 9th of August 1975 Composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich dies of lung cancer at the age of 69 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 42 years ago Monday 9th of August 1976 9/11 terrorist Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi is born in Mecca, Makkah l-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.

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(x) 31 years ago He Heard a Call to Arms Sunday 9th of August 1987 19-year-old Mass murderer Julian Knight shoots 24 people, killing 7 in a shooting spree in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At around 8.50pm Knight began to feel the effects of the beer he'd been drinking earlier and he had a 'vision' of soldiers being ambushed. He felt as if it was a 'call to arms'. The deadly victims were 53-year-old Dusan Flajnik, 24-year-old Vesna Markovska, 27-year-old Robert Mitchell, 26-year-old Johnny Muscat, 261-year-old Gina Papaioannou, 23-year-old Tracey Skinner, and 21-year-old Kenneth Stanton.

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(-) 23 years ago He Was Gratefully Dead Wednesday 9th of August 1995 Musician Jerry Jerome John Garcia aka Captain Trips known from The Grateful Dead dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Serenity Knolls, 145 Tamal Rd, Forest Knolls, California, United States.

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14 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 9th of August 2004 The stony beach as seen from atop the cliffs in Audresselles, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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14 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 9th of August 2004 A bunker holiday house with a splendid view on the beach in Dunkerque, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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