41st year - N° 57 Thursday, 26 February 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 57 Thursday, 26 February 2026

26 February / Today's 28 Events: (+) 224 years ago  Friday 26th of February 1802 Romantic poet and writer Victor Marie Hugo is born in 140 Grande Rue, Besançon, Franche-Comté, France. (+) 197 years ago  Thursday 26th of February 1829 Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss, originally Löb Strauß is born in Marktstraße 33, Buttenheim, Bayern, Germany. (+) 180 years ago  Thursday 26th of February 1846 Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill is born in Napsinekee Hollow, Le Claire, Iowa, United States. (+) 174 years ago  Thursday 26th of February 1852 Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, United States. (-) 174 years ago  Thursday 26th of February 1852 Serial poisoner Hélène Jégado is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Champ-de-Mars, Rennes, Bretagne, France. Jégado is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years. (+) 118 years ago  Wednesday 26th of February 1908 Animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director Tex Frederick Bean Avery is born in Taylor, Texas, United States. (-) 117 years ago  Friday 26th of February 1909 Murderer Cyrus Y. Timmons is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. (-) 112 years ago  Thursday 26th of February 1914 Murderer George Ball aka George Sumner aka The Sack Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. He killed his employer Christina Catherine Bradfield in her shop at 86 Old Hall Street in Liverpool on 10 December 1913. (+) 98 years ago  Sunday 26th of February 1928 Singer-songwriter and musician Fats Antoine Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. (+) 94 years ago  Friday 26th of February 1932 Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States. (x) 83 years ago  Friday 26th of February 1943 The first transport of Gypsies arrives in KZ Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany. (+) 83 years ago  Friday 26th of February 1943 Murderer William E. Wallace is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 54 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. Wallace was the oldest man executed in the Oregon State Penitentiary Gas Chamber. (-) 83 years ago  Friday 26th of February 1943 SS-Obergruppenführer and first commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies as his Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft is shot down by Soviet troops at the age of 51 in Artelnoje, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (+) 68 years ago  Wednesday 26th of February 1958 Writer Michel Houellebecq, originally Michel Thomas is born in Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France. (x) 67 years ago  Thursday 26th of February 1959 Peter Paul Rubens’ 'Der Höllensturz der Verdammten' is attacked with acid by 53-year-old Art vandal Walter Menzl in Alte Pinakothek, München, Bayern, Germany. (x) 62 years ago  Wednesday 26th of February 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 3 / Klarsichtpackung / Versumpfung in Einer Truhe – Panierung Eines Weiblichen Gesäßes – Wälzen im Schlamm' in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria. (-) 55 years ago  Friday 26th of February 1971 Actor and singer Fernandel, originally Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Avenue Foch, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 49 years ago  Saturday 26th of February 1977 David Francis is tortured to death by serial killer Robert Maudsley aka The Brain Eater in Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Maudsley and another resident, David Cheeseman, locked themselves in a cell with convicted child molester Francis and tortured him to death over a period of nine hours. (-) 42 years ago  Sunday 26th of February 1984 Rosario Teresa Gonzales aka Chary is presumably abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Grand Prix Race Track, Miami, Florida, United States. (x) 40 years ago  Wednesday 26th of February 1986 50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador aka The Monster of Charquito is arrested only a few minutes after he had murdered a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. Barbosa was charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months after he escaped from Gorgona prison in Colombia in November 1984. (-) 39 years ago She Came Out from the Cold Thursday 26th of February 1987 Serial poisoner Audrey Marie Hilley, originally Audrey Marie Frazier dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Anniston, Alabama, United States. Hilley escaped from prison and had been crawling around in the woods for four days of frequent rain and numb from temperatures dropping to the low 30s. She was taken to a local hospital and underwent emergency treatment for hypothermia. (-) 35 years ago  Tuesday 26th of February 1991 Murderer Lawrence Lee Buxton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 28 years ago  Thursday 26th of February 1998 Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil Isabel Dorsett dies of breast cancer at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. (-) 26 years ago  Saturday 26th of February 2000 Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 51 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained. (x) 23 years ago  Wednesday 26th of February 2003 Noise music band Club Moral play their 93rd concert on the occasion of the 'Synesthetics' exhibition in Cultuurcentrum, Minderbroedersgang 5, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium. 13 years ago  Tuesday 26th of February 2013 James Chance and Les Contortions playing live in Magasin 4, Avenue du Port, 51b, Brussel, Belgium. (x) 8 years ago  Monday 26th of February 2018 57-year-old Serial rapist Dino Scala aka Le Violeur de la Sambre is arrested in Pont-sur-Sambre, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. (-) 2 years ago The Brother Shot Him Five Times Monday 26th of February 2024 Murderer Nazar Mohammad is executed by shot dead by the relatives of his victims in Sheberghān, Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan. Muhammad had been found guilty of a knife murder he committed in January 2022. The brother of the murdered man shot Muhammad five times with a rifle.

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