41st year - N° 52 Saturday, 21 February 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 52 Saturday, 21 February 2026

21 February / Today's 22 Events: (-) 513 years ago  Friday 21st of February 1513 216th Pope Julius II, originally Giuliano della Rovere dies of fever at the age of 70 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. (-) 349 years ago  Sunday 21st of February 1677 Philosopher Baruch Spinoza, originally Benedito de Espinosadies of silicosis at the age of 45 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. (-) 296 years ago  Tuesday 21st of February 1730 245th Pope Benedictus XIII, originally Pietro Francesco Orsinidies of silicosis at the age of 80 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. (x) 178 years ago  Monday 21st of February 1848 30-year-old Economist and revolutionary communist Karl Heinrich Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 123 years ago  Saturday 21st of February 1903 Writer Anaïs Nin, originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France. (-) 123 years ago  Saturday 21st of February 1903 Ida Launer is killed, cut to pieces and eaten by serial killer and cannibal Karl Denke aka Papa Denke in Teichstraße 10, Münsterberg, Niederschlesien, Germany. According to Denke's well kept diaries Launer was his first victim. He even painstakingly noted his victim's weight. (+) 122 years ago  Sunday 21st of February 1904 Soviet statesman Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. (x) 119 years ago  Thursday 21st of February 1907 142 die in SS Berlin shipwreck in Hoek van Holland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. (+) 116 years ago  Monday 21st of February 1910 Mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family Carmine Galante aka The Cigar aka Lilo is born in East Harlem, New York, New York, United States. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar, leading to the nickname 'The Cigar' and 'Lilo' (a Sicilian term for cigar). (x) 101 years ago  Saturday 21st of February 1925 Inauguration of a monument in memory of the victims of 46-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Stadtfriedhof Stocken, Abteilung 49D/189-192, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. (+) 101 years ago  Saturday 21st of February 1925 Film director Sam David Samuel Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence is born in Fresno, California, United States. (+) 101 years ago  Saturday 21st of February 1925 Murderer Ronald Joseph Ryan, originally Ronald Edmond Thompson is born in The Royal Women's Hospital, 20 Flemington Rd, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. (-) 96 years ago  Friday 21st of February 1930 Murderess Eva Dugan is executed by hanging at the age of 52 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. At the end of the drop the snap of the rope decapitated Dugan, sending her head rolling to a stop at the feet of the spectators. The grisly scene caused five witnesses (two women and three men) to faint. Dugan has the distinction of being the only woman to be executed by hanging in Arizona. Although convicted for the murder of her employer Andrew J. Mathis, some sources claim Dugan was married five times and killed all of her husbands. (+) 93 years ago  Tuesday 21st of February 1933 Singer, songwriter, musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone, originally Eunice Kathleen Waymon aka The High Priestess of Soul is born in Tryon, North Carolina, United States. (+) 70 years ago  Tuesday 21st of February 1956 Mass murderer Cevdet Yılmaz is born in Boğazlıyan, Yozgat, Turkey. (-) 61 years ago He Was Shot by 3X and 15X Sunday 21st of February 1965 Revolutionary black activist Malcolm X, originally Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz is shot in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun at the age of 40 in Audubon Ballroom, 3940 Broadway, New York City, New York, United States. Two other men charged the stage firing semi-automatic handguns. Malcolm X was pronounced dead at 3:30 pm, shortly after arriving at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The autopsy identified 21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, arms and legs, including ten buckshot wounds from the initial shotgun blast. One gunman, Nation of Islammember Talmadge Hayer aka Thomas Hagan was beaten by the crowd before police arrived. Witnesses identified the other gunmen as Nation members Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson. (x) 54 years ago  Monday 21st of February 1972 Eight members of the die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe rob the Hypo-Bank of 285.000 marks in Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. (x) 53 years ago  Wednesday 21st of February 1973 105 die in Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727-224 Flight 114 crash in Ismailiya, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Libyan Arab Airline Flight 114 was lost and entered Israeli-controlled airspace over the Sinai Peninsula, where it was intercepted by two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs, and was shot down after refusing to co-operate. There were six survivors. (-) 42 years ago  Tuesday 21st of February 1984 Marta Mikhailovna Ryabenko is stabbed to death and her nipples and uterus cut away by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Park of Aviators, Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Ryabenko was Chikatilo's oldest victim, a vagabond and an alcoholic. (-) 31 years ago  Tuesday 21st of February 1995 Double murderer Samuel Christopher Hawkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. 24 years ago  Thursday 21st of February 2002 A metal stairway in a school, location of an international exhibition of contemporary art in Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. (-) 14 years ago  Tuesday 21st of February 2012 Serial killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Slayer dies of pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 58 in Wakefield Prison, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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