Tuesday, August 27, 2019

34th year - N° 239 Tuesday, 27 August 2019

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34th year - N° 239 Tuesday, 27 August 2019

27 August / Today's 28 Events:
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429 years ago

Monday 27th of August 1590

227th Pope Sixtus V, originally Felice Peretti di Montalto aka Xystus V dies of malaria at the age of 69 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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249 years ago

Monday 27th of August 1770

Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born in Eberhardstraße 53, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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148 years ago

Sunday 27th of August 1871

Naturalist writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser known for An American Tragedy is born in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.


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129 years ago

Wednesday 27th of August 1890

Artist Man Ray, originally Emmanuel Radnitzky is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.


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126 years ago

Sunday 27th of August 1893

Carpenter and inventor Peter Mitterhofer known for inventing the typewriter dies of natural causes at the age of 71 in Partschins, Südtirol, Austria.


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113 years ago

Monday 27th of August 1906

0-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer is baptised in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.


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111 years ago

Thursday 27th of August 1908

36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Baynes Johnson is born in Stonewall, Texas, United States.


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107 years ago

Tuesday 27th of August 1912

The 77-year-old father of 43-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais commits suicide by hanging in Bois de Boulogne, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Julien-Alexandre Sylvain Landru could not stand the disgrace due to his son's criminal activities and prison sentences any longer.


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98 years ago

Saturday 27th of August 1921

Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See is executed by beheading at the age of 28 in Strafgefängnis Plötzensee, Plötzensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

His last meal request was for "Bouletten mit Teltower Rübchen und zum Nachtisch ein schön suppiges Grieß-flammeri mit Blaubeer-Kompott. Zudem gab es eine richtige Weiße mit Schuss, serviert im Weißbierglas." After his last meal he confessed to 14 more murders, bringing his total to 25.


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90 years ago He Was Beatrice's Baby

Tuesday 27th of August 1929

Writer Ira Marvin Levin known for Rosemary’s Baby is born in New York City, New York, United States.


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82 years ago

Friday 27th of August 1937

Serial killer Vladimir Ionesyan aka Mosgaz aka Iwan the Axeman is born in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Ionesyan is considered to be Russia's first serial killer.


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73 years ago

Tuesday 27th of August 1946

Serial killer Peter Britton Tobin is born in Johnstone, Scotland, United Kingdom.


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63 years ago

Monday 27th of August 1956

Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown John 'Johnny' Butkovich is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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58 years ago

Sunday 27th of August 1961

Double murderer Jonathan Wayne Nobles is born in Austin, Texas, United States.


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55 years ago He Just Wanted to See What it Felt Like

Thursday 27th of August 1964

16-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer shoots his grandparents Maude Matilda Hughey and Edmund Emil Kemper in North Fork, California, United States.

When questioned Kemper said that he "just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma".


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55 years ago

Thursday 27th of August 1964

Serial killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


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53 years ago

Saturday 27th of August 1966

Urban planner and pioneer modern architecture Le Corbusier, originally Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Le Cabanon, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Against his doctor's orders Le Corbusier went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and was found by bathers.


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52 years ago

Sunday 27th of August 1967

Music entrepreneur Brian Samuel Epstein aka The Beatle-Making Prince of Pop known for discovering The Beatles dies of an overdose of Carbitral and alcohol at the age of 33 in Chapel Street 24, Belgravia, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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50 years ago

Wednesday 27th of August 1969

William Freeman is abducted and strangled by serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in Antioch, California, United States.


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44 years ago

Wednesday 27th of August 1975

Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie, originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael aka The Lion of Juda is strangled in his bed by military officers at the age of 83 in Jubilee Palace, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The state media reported that Selassie had died of 'respiratory failure' following complications from a prostate examination followed up by a prostate operation.


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41 years ago

Sunday 27th of August 1978

Artist Gordon Matta-Clark, originally Gordon Roberto Echaurren Matta dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 35 in New York City, New York, United States.


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40 years ago

Monday 27th of August 1979

1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten is killed in a bomb attack on his Shadow V boat by the IRA at the age of 79 in Mullaghmore, Connacht, Ireland.

The boat was destroyed by the force of the blast and Mountbatten's legs were almost blown off. Mountbatten was pulled alive from the water by nearby fishermen but died from his injuries before being brought to shore. Also aboard the boat were his elder daughter Patricia aka Lady Brabourne, her husband John aka Lord Brabourne, their twin sons Nicholas and Timothy Knatchbull, John's mother Doreen aka Baroness Brabourne and crew member Paul Maxwell. 14-year-old Nicholas and 15-year-old Paul were killed by the blast and the others were seriously injured. 83-year-old Doreen died from her injuries the following day.


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40 years ago Evident Attempts Had Been Made

Monday 27th of August 1979

Donald Ray Hyden is abducted, sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, United States.

Evident attempts had also been made to remove Hyden's testicles and slash his throat.


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30 years ago

Sunday 27th of August 1989

33-year-old Serial killer groupie Veronica Ver Lyn Compton marries 60-year-old James P. Wallace, a retired Eastern Washington University (EWU) professor in Washington Corrections Center for Women, 9601 Bujacich Rd., Gig Harbor, Washington, United States.

Compton and Wallace were granted conjugal visits and in 1993, she gave birth to a daughter at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma. She returned to prison while Wallace and Compton's mother cared for the baby.


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24 years ago

Sunday 27th of August 1995

36-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Marteling van de Heilige Erasmus' in Kapel van de Romaanse Poort, Brusselsestraat 63, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

The audience entered the space through a glass door. Then I tied a thin rope to the outside of the door lay down on the ground and tied my feet to two posts on the street. The other end of the rope I swallowed. The performance stopped when someone opened the door from the inside.



12 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 27th of August 2007

The house where on 14 May 1970 Ulrike Meinhof assisted in the freeing of Andreas Baader with Gudrun Ensslin, Irene Goergens and Ingrid Schubert, and jumped in the underground through this window in Deutsches Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen, Miquelstraße 83, Dahlem, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.



12 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 27th of August 2007

The location of a 1940s crime scene of serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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6 years ago He Was Terminated

Tuesday 27th of August 2013

Serial killer Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko aka The Terminator aka Citizen O dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Zhytomyr, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.


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