33rd year - N° 237 Saturday, 25 August 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 237 Saturday, 25 August 2018

25 August / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 199 years ago Wednesday 25th of August 1819 Detective and spy Allan Pinkerton known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 173 years ago War es ein Märchen Monday 25th of August 1845 King of Bavaria Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig II aka Der Märchenkönig is born in Schloss Nymphenburg, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 118 years ago Kam Der Wille zur Macht Zu Ende Saturday 25th of August 1900 Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche dies due to manic-depressive illness with periodic psychosis followed by vascular dementia at the age of 56 in Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(x) 111 years ago Sunday 25th of August 1907 33-year-old Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l'Ogresse de la Goutte d'Or is sent to an asylum in Nanterre, Île-de-France, France. Weber was only briefly confined to the asylum and the doctors there pronounced her sane and set her free.

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(+) 106 years ago Sunday 25th of August 1912 General Secretary of the East German Socialist Unity Party Erich Honecker is born in Max-Braun-Straße, Neunkirchen, Saarland, Germany.

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(+) 100 years ago Sunday 25th of August 1918 Composer Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago He Was not a Secret Baby Monday 25th of August 1930 Actor Sean Thomas Connery known for portraying the character James Bond is born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 72 years ago Sunday 25th of August 1946 19-year-old Serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer is arrested and charged with first degree robbery in Ontario Street, Albany, New York, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago He Wasn't Watching the Detectives Wednesday 25th of August 1954 Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, originally Declan Patrick MacManus is born in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 62 years ago Saturday 25th of August 1956 Sexologist Alfred Charles Kinsey dies of a heart disease and pneumonia at the age of 62 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 62 years ago Saturday 25th of August 1956 A huge number of books, journals and papers of 59-year-old Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich are burned by FDA officials in Gansevoort Street Destructor Plant, Bloomfield Street, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 48 years ago Tuesday 25th of August 1970 Fashion model Claudia Schiffer is born in Rheinberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 25th of August 1999 A black swan in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.

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(x) 14 years ago Wednesday 25th of August 2004 The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 55-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Louise Van Houten aka Lulu for the fifteenth time in California Institution for Women, Chino, California, United States.

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(-) 6 years ago He Went to the Dark Side of the Moon Saturday 25th of August 2012 Astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong known for becoming the first person to walk on the Moon dies of complications from vascular bypass surgery at the age of 82 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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