41st year - N° 42 Wednesday, 11 February 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 42 Wednesday, 11 February 2026

11 February / Today's 30 Events: (+) 491 years ago  Monday 11th of February 1535 229th Pope Gregorius XIV, originally Niccolò Sfondrato is born in Somma Lombardo, Lombardia, Italy. (-) 376 years ago  Friday 11th of February 1650 Philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes dies of pneumonia at the age of 54 in Västerlånggatan 68, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. (+) 179 years ago He Was Beginning to See the Light Thursday 11th of February 1847 Inventor Thomas Alva Edison aka The Wizard of Menlo Park is born in Milan, Ohio, United States. (+) 166 years ago  Saturday 11th of February 1860 Serial killer and cannibal Karl Denke aka Papa Denke is born in Ober Kunzendorf, Niederschlesien, Germany. (-) 157 years ago  Thursday 11th of February 1869 Assassin Patrick James Whelan is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Carleton County Gaol, 75 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, United States. (-) 120 years ago  Sunday 11th of February 1906 Murderer Milton Diltwer is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. (-) 99 years ago  Friday 11th of February 1927 William Gaffney is abducted, strangled, cut to pieces, roasted and partly eaten by serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac in 99 Fifteenth Street, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. Gaffney was abducted from Riker Avenue, Astoria, Queens. His body was dumped in the Bowery Bay. (+) 91 years ago  Monday 11th of February 1935 Musician Gene Vincent, originally Vincent Eugene Craddock is born in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. (+) 90 years ago  Tuesday 11th of February 1936 Actor Burt Leon Reynolds is born in Lansing, Michigan, United States. (-) 89 years ago  Thursday 11th of February 1937 Child killer Alfred Volckmann is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 20 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. (+) 88 years ago  Friday 11th of February 1938 Singer Bobby Robert George Pickett is born in Winter Hill, Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. (-) 84 years ago  Wednesday 11th of February 1942 Margaret Florence Lowe aka Pearl is strangled and mutilated by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in Gosfield Street, Marylebone, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Lowe's body was mutilated with a variety of implements including a razor blade, a knife and a candlestick. (+) 79 years ago  Tuesday 11th of February 1947 Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Emily Harris, originally Emily Montague Schwartz aka Yolanda is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. (-) 78 years ago  Wednesday 11th of February 1948 Film director Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. (+) 77 years ago  Friday 11th of February 1949 Member of Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground Dianne Marie Donghi aka Dianne Marie Spiegel aka Dianne Donghi Oberman is born in Neuville-sur-Seine, Aube, France. (+) 56 years ago  Wednesday 11th of February 1970 Murderer Richard Michael 'Rich' Cartwright is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (x) 51 years ago  Tuesday 11th of February 1975 50-year-old Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Hilda Thatcher, originally Margaret Hilda Roberts aka The Iron Lady becomes Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (-) 41 years ago  Monday 11th of February 1985 Film director Henry Hathaway, originally Henri Léopold de Fiennes Hathaway dies of a heart attack at the age of 87 in Hollywood, California, United States. (-) 40 years ago  Tuesday 11th of February 1986 Science fiction writer Frank Patrick Herbert dies of a massive pulmonary embolism while recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer at the age of 66 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. (-) 34 years ago The World Could Kiss His Ass Tuesday 11th of February 1992 Murderer Johnny Frank Garrett is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. On 31 October 1981 Garrett supposedly raped, strangled and killed 76-year-old Sister Tadea Benz in the St. Francis Convent. Garrettvehemently denied committing the crime. In 2004 DNA evidence linked Leoncio Perez Rueda to the crime. Rueda admitted to sexually assaulting a "nun" four months prior to the rape and murder of another elderly woman, Narnie Box Bryson, for which he was convicted. Physical evidence also linked Rueda to the crime, such as hairs found at the scene and on a white T-shirt formerly said to be that of Garrett. Garret's final meal request was for ice cream, his last words were: "I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. The rest of the world can kiss my ass." (-) 32 years ago His Gun Stopped Smoking Friday 11th of February 1994 Actor and producer William Conrad, originally John William Cann aka 'Cannon' dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 28 years ago  Wednesday 11th of February 1998 Rosemary A. Downs is raped and strangled by serial killer Alfred Gaynor aka The Springfield Strangler in 5 Lionel Benoit Road, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. (-) 27 years ago  Thursday 11th of February 1999 Multiple murderer Danny Lee Barber is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 26 years ago  Friday 11th of February 2000 Film director Roger Vadim, originally Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov dies of cancer at the age of 72 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 22 years ago  Wednesday 11th of February 2004 Serial killer Edward Lewis Lagrone is executed by at the age of 47 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Lagrone's last meal request was for five pieces of fried chicken and two Cokes. 22 years ago  Wednesday 11th of February 2004 A railway station building somewhere on the way on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore Express Train in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia. (-) 20 years ago  Saturday 11th of February 2006 Writer Peter Bradford Benchley dies of complications of pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 66 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. (x) 20 years ago  Saturday 11th of February 2006 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'DDV from China' in Factor 44, Bleekhofstraat 44, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. (-) 14 years ago  Saturday 11th of February 2012 Singer, actress and model Whitney Elizabeth Houston dies of accidental drowning at the age of 49 in Beverly Hilton Hotel Suite 434, 9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, United States. The official cause of Houston's death was drowning and the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use". The amount of cocaine found in Houston's body indicated that she used the substance shortly before her death. Toxicology results revealed additional drugs in her system: diphenhydramine, alprazolam, cannabis and cyclobenzaprine. (x) 9 years ago  Saturday 11th of February 2017 Noise music band Club Moral play their 148th concert on the occasion of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK's exhibition 'What Would I Do in Orbit?' in Jukomm im STEP, Stepgesstraße 20, Mönchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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