41st year - Nr 147 Wednesday, 27 May 2026

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41st year - Nr 147 Wednesday, 27 May 2026

27 May / Today's 30 Events:

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(x) 364 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1662 Isobel Gowdie makes a fourth and final confession about an encounter with the Devil in Auldearn, Scotland, United Kingdom. Forty-one people were arrested as the result of Gowdie's statements.

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(x) 199 years ago Sunday 27th of May 1827 18-year-old Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Fort Independence, Castle Island, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Poe claimed he was 22 years old even though he was 18 and first served at Fort Independence for five dollars a month.

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(+) 189 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1837 Lawman, gunfighter and gambler Bill James Butler Hickok aka Wild Bill Hickok is born in Troy Grove Park, Homer, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 186 years ago The Devil Won Wednesday 27th of May 1840 Composer Niccolò Paganini dies of internal hemorrhaging due to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 58 in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Because a priest arrived too late to perform the last rites on Paganini, and his widely rumored association with the devil, the Church denied his body a Catholic burial.

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(x) 179 years ago Thursday 27th of May 1847 26-year-old Murderess Marie Manning, originally Marie de Roux aka The Bermondsey Horror marries Frederick George Manning in St James's Church, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 176 years ago Monday 27th of May 1850 Serial killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 172 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1854 Slave and murderess Jane Elkins is executed by hanging in Dallas, Texas, United States. Elkins was the first woman to be executed in Texas. She was convicted of killing her master named Wisdom with an axe-blow to the head.

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(-) 163 years ago Wednesday 27th of May 1863 Murderer Claudius C. Frizell is executed by hanging in Fort Scott, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 148 years ago Monday 27th of May 1878 Dancer Isadora Angela Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 140 years ago Thursday 27th of May 1886 Oberschwester in Ravensbrück KZ Elisabeth Marschall is born in Meiningen, Thüringen, Germany.

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(x) 135 years ago Wednesday 27th of May 1891 37-year-old Poet Arthur Jean Nicolas Rimbaud has his right leg amputated because of carcinoma in Hôpital de la Conception, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. The post-operative diagnosis was that Rimbaud suffered bone cancer—probably osteosarcoma.

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(+) 132 years ago Sunday 27th of May 1894 Writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine, originally Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches is born in 11 Rampe du Pont-de-Neuilly, Courbevoie, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 132 years ago Sunday 27th of May 1894 Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett is born in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, United States.

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(-) 129 years ago Thursday 27th of May 1897 Claudius Beaupied is strangled by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 115 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1911 Actor Vincent Leonard Price is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 107 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 1919 Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Herman Koch dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 105 years ago Friday 27th of May 1921 Robber and rapist Caryl Whittier Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit is born in St. Joseph, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 104 years ago Saturday 27th of May 1922 Actor Christopher Frank Carandini Lee known for his role as Count Dracula is born in Belgravia, London, West London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 103 years ago Sunday 27th of May 1923 Politician and diplomat Henry Alfred Kissinger, originally Heinz Alfred Kissinger is born in Fürth, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 102 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 1924 Spree killer Ernest Ernie Ingenito is born in Wildwood, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 86 years ago Monday 27th of May 1940 Murderer Mateo Quinionis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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(x) 85 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 1941 37-year-old Nazi leader and SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík in Heydrich's bend, Vychovatelna, Libeň, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London resolved to kill Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. Heydrich survived with severe injuries to his left side, with major damage to his diaphragm, spleen, and lung and a fractured rib. Heydrich slipped in a coma on 2 June and died on 4 June 1941.

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(+) 68 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 1958 Serial killer Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer is born in Dixie Hills, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 66 years ago Friday 27th of May 1960 Broker and reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze is born in Rochester, Minnesota, United States.

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(x) 33 years ago Thursday 27th of May 1993 5 people die in a car bomb attack by the Sicilian Mafia in Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Toscana, Italy. The most severe damage was to the Niobe room and classical sculptures and neoclassical interior, its frescoes were damaged beyond repair.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 27th of May 1994 Triple murderer Charles Rodman Campbell is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 27th of May 1994 Cop killer Stephen Ray Nethery is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 27th of May 2002 A rainbow over the rooftops in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 23 years ago Tuesday 27th of May 2003 Composer Luciano Berio dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 27th of May 2014 Plants growing in my installation 'Picnic at Hansenspark' in Cultuurcentrum De Bond, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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