41st year - N° 55 Tuesday, 24 February 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 55 Tuesday, 24 February 2026

24 February / Today's 32 Events: (+) 526 years ago  Saturday 24th of February 1500 Holy Roman Emperor Karl V is born in Prinsenhof, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. (+) 490 years ago  Monday 24th of February 1536 231st Pope Clemens VIII, originally Ippolito Aldobrandini is born in Fano, Marche, Italy. (-) 294 years ago  Sunday 24th of February 1732 Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General dies of natural causes at the age of 67 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. (x) 259 years ago He Was Revived Tuesday 24th of February 1767 Murderer Patrick Redmond is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. After 28 minutes Redmond was declared dead. Redmond was taken down and revived after 6 hours by the use of bronchotomy. (+) 240 years ago  Friday 24th of February 1786 Folklorist and mythologist Wilhelm Karl Grimm is born in Hanau, Hessen, Germany. (+) 152 years ago  Tuesday 24th of February 1874 Victim of Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie Clement Swanenburg is born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. (x) 151 years ago  Wednesday 24th of February 1875 102 die in SS Gothenburg shipwreck in Holbourne Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. (+) 104 years ago  Friday 24th of February 1922 Pop artist Richard William Hamilton is born in Pimlico, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 99 years ago  Thursday 24th of February 1927 Muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso Jacqueline Roque is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 87 years ago  Friday 24th of February 1939 Kidnapper and child murderer Franklin Pierce McCall is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 23 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States. (+) 86 years ago  Saturday 24th of February 1940 Mail and Performance artist Anna Banana, originally Anne Lee Long is born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (+) 77 years ago  Thursday 24th of February 1949 Serial killer Randy Greenawalt is born in Hannibal, Missouri, United States. (+) 77 years ago  Thursday 24th of February 1949 Member of Bewegung 2. Juni Thomas Weisbecker is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (-) 73 years ago  Tuesday 24th of February 1953 War leader Gerd Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt dies of heart failure at the age of 78 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. (-) 73 years ago  Tuesday 24th of February 1953 Cricketer and murderer Miles William Giffard is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Horfield Prison, Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom. Giffard had beaten his 53-year-old father Charles and mother Elizabeth to death with a lead pipe on 7 November 1952. Giffard took the bodies and tipped them over the cliff at the end of the garden and then got in the car and drove to see his girlfriend in London. (+) 72 years ago He Was a Jet Boy Wednesday 24th of February 1954 Musician and songwriter Roger François Jouret aka Plastic Bertrand is born in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. (+) 71 years ago  Thursday 24th of February 1955 Spree killer Woo Bum-kon is born in Pusan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. (-) 70 years ago  Friday 24th of February 1956 Murderer Arthur Ross Brown is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 31 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. For his last meal Brown had the same as the prison staff, soup, crackers, fried beaf steak, french fries, buttered noodles, spinach, biscuits, coffee, milk and cookies. (-) 66 years ago  Wednesday 24th of February 1960 Murderer Earl Lewis Steward is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 41 in Nevada State Prison, 3301 E. 5th Street, Carson City, Nevada, United States. (x) 59 years ago He Went Measuring Friday 24th of February 1967 36-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man escapes in Bridgewater State Hospital, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. DeSalvo was arrested 30 hours later in West Lynn, Massachusetts. (x) 57 years ago The Song Was Performed a Second Time Monday 24th of February 1969 37-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black plays live in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. The setlist was Wanted Man, Wreck of the Old 97, I Walk the Line, Darling Companion, Starkville City Jail, San Quentin, San Quentin" (performed a second time at the audience's request), A Boy Named Sue, (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley, Folsom Prison Blues. (x) 57 years ago  Monday 24th of February 1969 18-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen escapes from reformatory school in Ruiselede, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Van Eyken left the country for the Netherlands. (-) 56 years ago  Tuesday 24th of February 1970 Assassin Josef Erwin Bachmann commits suicide by asphyxiation with a plastic bag at the age of 26 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Tegel, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (-) 53 years ago  Saturday 24th of February 1973 Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by 27-year-old Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, 24-year-old Toni Antoinette Denise White, 21-year-old James Cyril Cendrillon and 17-year-old Alphons Joseph Klimekat the age of 20 in Raynes Park Road, Hampton, Australia. "After confronting her and asking more questions it came out that she had sex feelings about the hose on the vacuum cleaner and bananas in a bowl in the room. We all slapped her and she was punched in the stomach. She fell when she was pushed and hit her head on the floor." (-) 51 years ago  Monday 24th of February 1975 Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer dies of bladder cancer at the age of 73 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (x) 43 years ago  Thursday 24th of February 1983 Noise music band Club Moral play their 22nd concert in De Nieuwe Workshop, Oude Graanmarkt 5, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. (-) 37 years ago She Was Wrapped in Plastic Friday 24th of February 1989 Fictional character Laura Palmer is murdered by persons unkown at the age of 18 in Twin Peaks, Washington, United States. Palmer's murder was possibly inspired by the unsolved death of Hazel Irene Drew (1888-1908), who was found dead in Teal's Pond in Sand Lake, New York. (-) 27 years ago  Wednesday 24th of February 1999 Murderer Karl-Heinz LaGrand is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (-) 27 years ago  Wednesday 24th of February 1999 Murderer Norman Evans Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 26 years ago  Thursday 24th of February 2000 Murderess Betty Lou Beets, originally Betty Lou Dunevant is executed by lethal injection at the age of 63 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Beets was convicted to death for shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on 6 August 1983. Also found buried in a garage were the remains of another Beets' husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. Beets did not request a final meal. (-) 20 years ago His Duel Came to a Halt Friday 24th of February 2006 Actor Dennis William Weaver dies of cancer at the age of 82 in Ridgway, Colorado, United States. 20 years ago  Friday 24th of February 2006 The Rue Le Sueur where Serial Killer Dr. Marcel Petiot killed about 63 people at n° 21 (the original building however was torn down) in his infamous 'Triangular Chamber of Death', before and during WWII in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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