41st year - Nr 138 Monday, 18 May 2026

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41st year - Nr 138 Monday, 18 May 2026

18 May / Today's 33 Events:

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(-) 245 years ago Friday 18th of May 1781 Revolutionary leader Túpac Amaru II, originally José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera is executed by quartering at the age of 43 in Cusco, Cusco, Peru. Amaru was first forced to bear witness to the execution of his wife Micaela Bastidas, his eldest son Hipólito, his uncle Francisco Tupa Amaro, his brother-in-law Antonio Bastidas and some of his captains before his own death. After the failed dismemberment by four horses Amaru's body was quartered and he was then beheaded.

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(-) 214 years ago Monday 18th of May 1812 Assassin John Bellingham known for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Bellingham's skull was preserved at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum in London.

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(-) 211 years ago Thursday 18th of May 1815 Adelheid Miltenberg is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. Adelheid was Gottfried's daughter.

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(+) 158 years ago Monday 18th of May 1868 Emperor of Russia Nikolai II aka Nikolai the Bloody is born in Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 154 years ago Saturday 18th of May 1872 Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Arthur William Russell is born in Ravenscroft, Trellech, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 145 years ago Wednesday 18th of May 1881 Architect Walter Adolph Georg Gropius known for founding the Bauhaus School is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 137 years ago Saturday 18th of May 1889 Engineer and chemist Thomas Midgley aka the One-Man Environmental Disaster is born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 129 years ago Tuesday 18th of May 1897 Film director Frank Russel Capra, originally Francesco Rosario Capra is born in Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italy.

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(-) 115 years ago Thursday 18th of May 1911 Romantic composer Gustav Mahler dies of bacterial endocarditis at the age of 51 in Löw Sanatorium, Mariannengasse 20, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 114 years ago Saturday 18th of May 1912 Singer and television personality Perry Pierino Ronald Como is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 109 years ago Friday 18th of May 1917 Axe murderess Germaine Leloy-Godefroy is born in Crosmières, Pays de la Loire, France.

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(+) 106 years ago Tuesday 18th of May 1920 Ioannes Paulus II, originally Karol Józef Wojtyła is born in Wadowice, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.

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(+) 99 years ago Wednesday 18th of May 1927 Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is born in Fargo, North Dakota, United States.

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(-) 99 years ago A Criminal was Made Wednesday 18th of May 1927 Mass murderer Andrew Philip Kehoe detonates dynamite stored inside his shrapnel-filled truck, killing himself and Superintendent Huyck during a struggle at the age of 55 in Bath Consolidated School, Bath Township, Michigan, United States. Between 16 May and the morning of 18 May Kehoe killed his wife Ellen 'Nellie' Price. He moved her body to a farm building before setting off incendiary explosions in their house and farm buildings. About the same time he had arranged timed explosions in the new Bath Consolidated School building. In all 44 people died and 58 were injured in the explosions. After the bombings investigators found a wooden sign wired to the farm's fence with Kehoe's last message  "Criminals are made, not born".

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(x) 98 years ago Friday 18th of May 1928 The home of 54-year-old New York State Electrician aka executioner Robert Greene Elliott is bombed by persons unknown in Long Island, New York, United States. The bombing was presumed to be a revenge for the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti.

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(x) 90 years ago She Couldn't Take His Body with Her Monday 18th of May 1936 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe strangles her lover Kichizo Ishida and cuts off his penis and testicles in Ogu, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. "Because I couldn't take his head or body with me. I wanted to take the part of him that brought back to me the most vivid memories."

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(-) 89 years ago She Was Wasted Away Tuesday 18th of May 1937 Double murderess Christine Papin dies of cachexia at the age of 32 in Asyle Départemental Saint-Méen, Rennes, Bretagne, France.

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(-) 84 years ago Monday 18th of May 1942 Gladys Hosking is strangled by serial killer Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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(x) 81 years ago He Carried a Length of Rope Friday 18th of May 1945 18-year-old Serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer is caught in the act of breaking into the apartment of Elma Hamum in Vrain Street, Denver, Colorado, United States. A length of rope and a .25-caliber pistol were found in Glatman's possession. Glatman was charged with first-degree robbery and his parents posted bail.

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(x) 73 years ago Monday 18th of May 1953 The body of Beryl Evans is exhumed to establish wether 54-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place had indeed murdered her, in Gunnersbury Cemetery, 143 Gunnersbury Avenue, Acton, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 68 years ago Sunday 18th of May 1958 Musician Xavier Rathé is born in Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 66 years ago He Was Mummy's Boy Wednesday 18th of May 1960 Spree killer and mass murderer Michael Robert Ryan aka The Rambo Killer is born in Savernake Hospital, Marlborough, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 66 years ago Wednesday 18th of May 1960 24-year-old Kidnapper and murderer Arthur Hosein marries 33-year-old Elisabeth Fisher at the Registry Office in Hackney, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 59 years ago Thursday 18th of May 1967 Joyce Lynn Cassel is attacked and raped by foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer in South East Pine, Portland, Oregon, United States. Cassel survived.

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(+) 57 years ago Sunday 18th of May 1969 Triple murderer Sean Richard Sellers aka The Schoolboy Night Stalker aka The Night Roomer is born in Corcoran, California, United States.

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(-) 55 years ago There Were 29 Points of Similarity Tuesday 18th of May 1971 Elizabeth Anne Porteous is raped and strangled by serial killer Wayne Boden aka The Vampire Rapist in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Porteous' breasts were mutilated with bite marks. A local orthodontist managed to demonstrate 29 points of similarity between the bite marks in Porteous' body and Boden's teeth.

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(-) 46 years ago Sunday 18th of May 1980 Musician Ian Kevin Curtis known from the band Joy Division commits suicide by hanging at the age of 23 in 77 Barton Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Curtis had just viewed Werner Herzog's film 'Stroszek' and listened to Iggy Pop's album 'The Idiot'.

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(-) 33 years ago Tuesday 18th of May 1993 Murderer John Christopher Sawyers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Monday 18th of May 1998 Murderer Robert Anthony Carter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 27 years ago Il n'avait plus de Plaisir Tuesday 18th of May 1999 Mass murderer Günter Hermann Günter commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 37 in Hotel Mon Plaisir, 218 Route d'Arlon, Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Ewen killed four people and wounded at least nine others in Dillingen, Germany on 16 May 1999, before escaping to Sierck-les-Bains, France, where he killed another person and wounded two more. Hunted by German and French police Ewen committed suicide.

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(-) 22 years ago Tuesday 18th of May 2004 Double murderer Kelsey Patterson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 21 years ago He Wouldn't Have to Wake Up in Prison Any More Wednesday 18th of May 2005 Murderer Bryan Eric Wolfe is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Wolfe's last meal request was for fried chicken legs, fried pork chops, barbecue ribs, french fries, peach cobbler and a banana. Wolfe's last words were "I will be OK. I am at peace with all of this and I won't have to wake up in prison any more. I love you all. I totally surrender to the Lord. I am ready, Warden."

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 18th of May 2007 An easy step for dogs in a shop window while scoring all kinds of useful artefacts for a performance in Kulttuuritalo Annis, Annankatu 6, Pori, Satakunta, Finland.

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