Sunday, February 9, 2025

40th year - N° 40 Sunday, 9 February 2025

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40th year - N° 40 Sunday, 9 February 2025

9 February / Today's 30 Events:
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470 years ago

Wednesday 9th of February 1555

Churchman, Anglican Bishop, Protestant reformer and martyr John Hooper aka Johan Hoperis is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 60 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

Hooper was condemned for heresy by Bishop Gardiner and degraded by Bishop Bonner on 29 January 1555.


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408 years ago

Thursday 9th of February 1617

Composer Hans Christoph Haiden dies of unknown causes at the age of 45 in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.


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254 years ago

Saturday 9th of February 1771

Farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet and singer-songwriter Daniel Belknap is born in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States.


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252 years ago

Tuesday 9th of February 1773

9th President of the United States William Henry Harrison is born in Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Virginia, United States.


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199 years ago

Thursday 9th of February 1826

Murderer Francis Kol is born in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

Kol was an abandoned child.


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144 years ago

Wednesday 9th of February 1881

Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky dies of a pulmonary haemorrhage at the age of 60 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.


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140 years ago

Monday 9th of February 1885

Composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.


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123 years ago

Sunday 9th of February 1902

Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, originally Gertrud Emma Treusch aka Maria Stuckebrock is born in Adelsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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94 years ago

Monday 9th of February 1931

Writer Thomas Nicolaas Bernhard is born in Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands.


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93 years ago

Tuesday 9th of February 1932

Painter Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden, Sachsen, Germany.


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83 years ago

Monday 9th of February 1942

Evelyn Hamilton is strangled by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in Montagu Place, Marylebone, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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80 years ago

Friday 9th of February 1945

Actress and political activist Mia María de Lourdes Villiers Farrow is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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69 years ago

Thursday 9th of February 1956

32-year-old Serial killer Leslie 'Joe Goebbels' Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer is arrested while trying to pawn some rings taken in a Los Angeles burglary in San Francisco, California, United States.


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64 years ago

Thursday 9th of February 1961

Murderer Georges Riley is executed by hanging by Harry Allen at the age of 21 in Dana Prison, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom.


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62 years ago

Saturday 9th of February 1963

Dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer Lolo Ferrari, originally Eve Valois known for her ‘largest breasts in the world’ is born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France.

Ferrari underwent numerous plastic surgery operations to create a 180-centimetre silicone-enhanced bust. She had 22 enlargements, which is a Guinness world record.


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57 years ago

Friday 9th of February 1968

47-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs 'Eurasienstab - 82 min Fluxorium Organum' with Henning Christiansen in Wide White Space Gallery, Plaatsnijdersstraat 1, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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53 years ago

Wednesday 9th of February 1972

26-year-old Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'T.V. Hijack' on Channel 3 Cablevision in Irvine, California, United States.

"On January 14 I was asked to do a piece on a local television station by Phyllis Lutjeans. After several proposals were censored by the station or by Phyllis, I agreed to an interview situation. I arrived at the station with my own video crew so that could have my own tape. While the taping was in progress, I requested that the show be transmitted live. Since the station was not broadcasting at the time, they complied. In the course of the interview, Phyllis asked me to talk about some of the pieces I had thought of doing. I demonstr ated a T.V. Hijack. Holding a knife at her throat, I threatened her life if the station stopped live transmission. I told her that I had planned to make her perform obcene acts. At the end of the recording, I asked for the tape of the show. I unwound the reel and destroyed the show by dousing the tape with acetone. The station manager was irate, and I offered him my tape which included the show and its destruction, but he refused."


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50 years ago

Sunday 9th of February 1975

37-year-old Geologist and art vandal László Tóth is released from a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Tóth was immediately deported to Australia and presumably still resides in a nursing home in Strathfield, New South Wales.


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48 years ago

Wednesday 9th of February 1977

Engineer and aircraft designer Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin dies of unknown causes at the age of 83 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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47 years ago

Thursday 9th of February 1978

Kimberly Dianne Leach is raped and beaten to death by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Lake City, Florida, United States.

Leach's body was found eight weeks later in a state park in Suwannee County, Florida. She was Bundy's last victim.


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47 years ago

Thursday 9th of February 1978

Sicherheitspolizei commander Herbert Kappler dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Soltau, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Six months earlier Kappler escaped from an Italian prison in a suitcase carried by his wife.


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46 years ago

Friday 9th of February 1979

Hélène Lichachevski is robbed and shot dead by mass murderer Freddy Horion aka De Zonnebril in Vliegtuiglaan, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


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45 years ago

Saturday 9th of February 1980

34-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness marries Carole Boone in Orange County Courthouse, 65 East Central Boulevard, Orlando, Florida, United States.

Boone divorced Bundy three years later and changed her and her daughter's name.


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44 years ago

Monday 9th of February 1981

Musician Bill William John Clifton Haley dies of a brain tumour at the age of 56 in Harlingen, Texas, United States.


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41 years ago

Thursday 9th of February 1984

Soviet leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov dies of interstitial nephritis, nephrosclerosis, residual hypertension and diabetes and chronic kidney deficiency at the age of 70 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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29 years ago

Friday 9th of February 1996

Double murderer Leo Ernest Jenkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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27 years ago

Monday 9th of February 1998

Triple murderer Steven Ceon Renfro is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

On 25 August 1996, after taking 70 doses of Valium along with liquor, Renfro put on camouflage clothing, blackened his face and armed himself with 4 guns, including a military assault rifle, and 500 rounds of ammunition. He shot and killed his 36-year-old Rhena Fultner and his 63-year-old aunt Rose Rutledge. Then he went to the nearby trailer of 40-year-old George Counts, against whom he had a grudge, and fired more than 150 rounds into the mobile home.


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26 years ago

Tuesday 9th of February 1999

Double murderer Jaturun jay Siripongs is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.



26 years ago The Eyes had it

Tuesday 9th of February 1999

Returning from Bangkok into Schiphol airport at 7am in the morning I took up my teaching job at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.


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5 years ago

Sunday 9th of February 2020

Spree killer Jakrapanth Thomma known for the Nakhon Ratchasima shooting is shot dead by police after a two-day shooting spree at the age of 32 in Terminal 21, Korat, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

The day before Thomma shot his commander Colonel Anantharot Krasae at the Surathamphithak army camp. He then shot and killed the commander's mother-in-law. Thomma then stole a Humvee and drove to the Terminal 21 shopping mall where he left the vehicle and began shooting indiscriminately at people before detonating a cooking gas cylinder, killing 26 civilians. He then took sixteen hostages inside the mall on the fourth floor. Thomma live-streamed on Facebook Live during the siege and shar ed photos and memes on his profile page. Police officers and soldiers stormed the mall and demanded Thomma's surrender, to which he responded by opening fire on them, killing three policemen and a soldier and wounded at least three others.


Saturday, February 8, 2025

40th year - N° 39 Saturday, 8 February 2025

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40th year - N° 39 Saturday, 8 February 2025

8 February / Today's 33 Events:
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438 years ago All Her Troubles Came to an End

Sunday 8th of February 1587

Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is executed by beheading at the age of 45 in Fotheringhay Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom.

Mary was not beheaded with a single strike. The first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head. The second blow severed the neck except for a small bit of sinew which the executioner cut through using the axe. Afterward he held her head aloft and declared "God save the Queen." At that moment the auburn tresses in his hand turned out to be a wig and the head fell to the ground, revealing that Mary had very short, grey hair.


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300 years ago

Thursday 8th of February 1725

Ruler of the Tsardom of Russia Peter the Great dies of gangrene of the bladder at the age of 53 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.


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217 years ago

Monday 8th of February 1808

Murderer Edward Donnelly is executed by hanging in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States.


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197 years ago

Friday 8th of February 1828

Writer Jules Gabriel Verne known for his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is born in 4 Rue Olivier-de-Clisson, Île Feydeau, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France.


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191 years ago

Saturday 8th of February 1834

Chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev known for formulating the Periodic table of chemical elements is born in Verkhnie Aremzyani, Tobolsk Governorate, Russia.


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153 years ago

Thursday 8th of February 1872

Philosopher Theodor Lessing is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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131 years ago

Thursday 8th of February 1894

Film director King Wallis Vidor is born in Galveston, Texas, United States.


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123 years ago He Died from a Chisel

Saturday 8th of February 1902

Founder of the Protestant Truth Society John Kensit dies of pneumonia and blood poisoning at the age of 49 in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

Kensit died due to the result of a wound he received in September that year when he was struck by a chisel thrown by a protester as he arrived at a meeting in Birkenhead.


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104 years ago

Tuesday 8th of February 1921

Actress Lana Turner, originally Julia Jean Turner is born in Wallace, Idaho, United States.

She was the only daughter of teenaged parents 18-year-old John Virgil Turner and 16-year-old Mildred Frances Cowan.


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104 years ago Anarchy Mourned

Tuesday 8th of February 1921

Activist, revolutionary, scientist, geographer and philosopher Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin aka The Anarchist Prince dies of pneumonia at the age of 79 in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia.


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102 years ago

Thursday 8th of February 1923

123 die in Stag Canyon Mine No. 1 dust explosion in Dawson, New Mexico, United States.

A mine car derailed, knocking down timbers and the electric trolley cable causing sparks, igniting coal dust in the mine.


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101 years ago Gee Was a Gas

Friday 8th of February 1924

Murderer Jon Gee is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 29 in Nevada State Prison, 3301 E. 5th Street, Carson City, Nevada, United States.

Gee was the first man ever to be executed by cyanide gas. Officials first attempted to pump poison gas directly into Gee's cell while he was sleeping without success because the gas leaked from the cell. Later a makeshift gas chamber was set up at the butcher shop of the prison. At least one cat was used to test the lethal effectiveness of the chamber.


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101 years ago

Friday 8th of February 1924

Hermann Speichert 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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100 years ago

Sunday 8th of February 1925

Actor Jack John Uhler Lemmon is born in Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 2014 Washington Street, Newton, Massachusetts, United States.

Lemmon was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.


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97 years ago

Wednesday 8th of February 1928

Kidnapper and murderer Burton Wilbur 'Bud' Abbott is born in Portland, Oregon, United States.


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96 years ago

Friday 8th of February 1929

Cop killer Günther Fritz Erwin Podola aka Mike Colato is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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96 years ago

Friday 8th of February 1929

Rosa Ohliger is stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Vinzenzkirche, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Ohliger's body was doused with petrol and set on fire.


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94 years ago He Was no Rebel Yet

Sunday 8th of February 1931

Actor James Byron Dean known from Rebel Without a Cause is born in Seven Gables Apartment House, Corner of 4th Street and McClure Street, Marion, Indiana, United States.


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84 years ago

Saturday 8th of February 1941

Victim of Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento Evelyn Elizabeth Ferreira Miroth is born in Paauilo, Hawaii, United States.


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83 years ago

Sunday 8th of February 1942

SA-Obergruppenführer and Reichsminister für Bewaffnung und Munition Fritz Todt known for Bautruppe Organisation Todt dies in a plane crash after take-off at the age of 51 in Flughafen Rastenburg, Kętrzyn, Województwo Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Poland.


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83 years ago

Sunday 8th of February 1942

Musician and record producer Terry Melcher, originally Terrence Paul Jorden known for his brief association with Charles Manson is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Melcher was born to actress Doris Day. In 1968 Beach Boy Dennis Wilson introduced Melcher to ex-con and aspiring musician Charles Manson.


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77 years ago

Sunday 8th of February 1948

Cop killer Lynda Cheryle Lyon Block is born in Orlando, Florida, United States.


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73 years ago

Friday 8th of February 1952

Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Alice Helen Allison Liu is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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70 years ago

Tuesday 8th of February 1955

Irmgard Strehl is sexually assaulted and stabbed to death by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Bundesbahn 63, Herrenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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42 years ago it Was Very Awful

Tuesday 8th of February 1983

38-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company is arrested after neighbours complained about a blocked drain in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Upon arrival home from work Nilsen queried why the police would be interested in his drains, so the officer told him they were filled with human remains. "Good grief, how awful!" exclaimed Nilsen.


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36 years ago

Wednesday 8th of February 1989

144 die in Independent Air Flight 1851 Boeing 707-331B crash into a mountain in Pico Alto, Santa Maria Island, Azores, Portugal.


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35 years ago

Thursday 8th of February 1990

Singer-songwriter and musician Del Shannon, originally Charles Weedon Westover commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 56 in 15519 Saddleback Road, Santa Clarita, California, United States.

Shannon was suffering from depression for which he was taking Prozac.


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28 years ago He Was Naked and Unarmed

Saturday 8th of February 1997

24-year-old Mass murderer Stephen Lawrence Andersen goes on a drug-induced shooting spree in Raurimu, North Island, New Zealand.

Anderson shot and killed his 60-year-old father Robin, 52-year-old Andrea Joy Brander, 38-year-old Stephen Mark Hanson, 28-year-old John Frederick Matthews, 63-year-old Anthony Gordon McCarty and 51-year-old Henk Van de Wetering with a sawn-off shotgun at the breakfast table, five more people were wounded. Anderson was arrested naked and unarmed by police who tracked him through the rugged forest with the help of planes and helicopters.


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26 years ago

Monday 8th of February 1999

Writer Iris Jean Murdoch dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 80 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.


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24 years ago

Thursday 8th of February 2001

Murderer Adolph Gil Hernandez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.



21 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 8th of February 2004

A journey into the Kampong suburbs in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.


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19 years ago

Wednesday 8th of February 2006

Murderer Robert Neville is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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2 years ago He Walked on by

Wednesday 8th of February 2023

Singer-songwriter and composer Burt Freeman Bacharach dies of natural causes at the age of 95 in Los Angeles, California, United States.