41st year - Nr 224 Wednesday, 12 August 2026

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41st year - Nr 224 Wednesday, 12 August 2026

12 August / Today's 32 Events:

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(-) 2056 years ago Monday 12th of August 0030bc Last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt Cleopatra VII Philopator commits suicide by allowing an asp to bite her at the age of 39 in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.

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(-) 542 years ago Tuesday 12th of August 1484 212th Pope Sixtus IV, originally Francesco della Rovere known for building the Sistine Chapel dies of unknown causes at the age of 70 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 337 years ago He Was Incorrupt Friday 12th of August 1689 Innocentius XI, originally Benedetto Odescalchi aka The Blessed dies of a kidney disease at the age of 78 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. When Innocentius' body was exhumed for beatification 267 years later it was discovered that it had remained preserved. He is regarded by many Catholics to be the first pope whose body was discovered to be incorrupt.

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(-) 199 years ago Sunday 12th of August 1827 Poet and painter William Blake dies of gallstones at the age of 70 in Fountain Court, Strand, Soho, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 195 years ago Friday 12th of August 1831 Theosophist, occultist and spirit medium Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, originally Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya aka Madame Blavatsky is born in Ekaterinoslav, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 160 years ago Sunday 12th of August 1866 Chemist, murderer and playwright Roland Burnham Molineux is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 158 years ago Wednesday 12th of August 1868 Victim of Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais Thérèse Laborde-Line is born in Chascomús, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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(+) 145 years ago He Was the Squaw Baby Friday 12th of August 1881 Film director Cecil Blount DeMille is born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 114 years ago Monday 12th of August 1912 Film director Samuel Michael Fuller is born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 102 years ago Tuesday 12th of August 1924 52-year-old Boxer Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy kills his 39-year-old lover Theresa Mors by a single gunshot to the head in Unit 212, 2819 Leeward Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States. The next morning Selby robbed and held captive some 12 people at Mors' antique shop and shot one man who was trying to escape in the leg. He also had forced at least six other men to remove their trousers after divesting them of their money.

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(-) 99 years ago Friday 12th of August 1927 Murderer John Robinson is executed by hanging by Robert Baxter at the age of 36 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 98 years ago Sunday 12th of August 1928 Composer Leoš Leo Eugen Janáček dies of pneumonia at the age of 74 in Sanatorium dr. Kleina, Hornopolní ulice, Ostrava, Moravskoslezský Kraj, Czechoslovakia.

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(-) 88 years ago Friday 12th of August 1938 Cop killer Glenn J. Applegate is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. Applegate was along with Robert Suhay the first double hanging in Leavenworth.

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(-) 88 years ago Friday 12th of August 1938 Cop killer Robert Joseph Suhay is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. Suhay was along with Glenn J. Applegate the first double hanging in Leavenworth.

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(+) 77 years ago Friday 12th of August 1949 Spree killer Mark James Robert Essex is born in Emporia, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 74 years ago Tuesday 12th of August 1952 Thirteen members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee are excuted in what was remembered as The Night of the Murdered Poets in Lubyanka Prison, Lubyanskaya Square, Meshchansky, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. The thirteen JAC members were 57-year-old Yiddish poet Peretz Markish, 63-year-old Yiddish poet David Hofstein, 52-year-old Yiddish poet Itzik Feffer, 62-year-old Yiddish poet Leib Kvitko, 68-year-old writer David Bergelson, 74-year-old director of the Soviet Information Bureau Solomon Lozovsky, 60-year-old Medical Director of the Botkin Clinical Hospital Boris Shimeliovich, 53-year-old director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater Benjamin Zuskin, 62-year-old researcher Joseph Yuzefovich, 59-year-old journalist Leon Talmy, 65-year-old editor of Eynikeyt newspaper Ilya Vatenberg, 51-year-old wife of Ilya, Chaika Vatenburg-Ostrovskaya and 47-year old deputy editor of the Diplomatic Dictionary Emilia Teumin.

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(+) 73 years ago Wednesday 12th of August 1953 Double murderer Mack Oran Hill is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(-) 71 years ago Friday 12th of August 1955 Writer, social critic and philanthropist Thomas Paul Mann dies of athorasclerosis at the age of 80 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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(-) 69 years ago Monday 12th of August 1957 Murderer William William Lawrence Nicholson is executed by hanging in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.

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(-) 62 years ago He Didn't See the Living Daylight Wednesday 12th of August 1964 Writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer Ian Lancaster Fleming known for the James Bond spy novels dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(+) 53 years ago He Enrolled with FRF Crew Sunday 12th of August 1973 Terrorist Richard Colvin Reid aka The Shoe Bomber aka Abdel Rahim aka Abdul Rof is born in Bromley, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 47 years ago Sunday 12th of August 1979 30-year-old Murderer Peter Carlier shoots a 21-year-old neighbour girl to death due to a sadistic obsession in Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 44 years ago Thursday 12th of August 1982 Actor Henry Jaynes Fonda dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago Monday 12th of August 1985 520 die in Japan Airlines Flight 123 Boeing 747-SR46 crash into a mountain in Osutaka Ridge, Mount Takamagahara, Ueno, Kantō, Japan. The four all female survivors were seated on the left side and toward the middle of seat rows 54–60 in the rear of the aircraft. They were 26-year-old Yumi Ochiai, 34-year-old Hiroko Yoshizaki and her 8-year-old daughter Mikiko and 12-year-old Keiko Kawakami.

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(-) 34 years ago He Remained Silent for More Than 4′33″ Wednesday 12th of August 1992 Composer, music theorist and artist John Milton Cage dies of a stroke at the age of 80 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Thursday 12th of August 1993 Double murderer David Lee Holland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Tuesday 12th of August 1997 Bégonia Valencia is abducted and killed by unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.

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(-) 29 years ago He Was not Stoned Tuesday 12th of August 1997 Serial killer Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire is executed by hanging from a crane at the age of 28 in Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Twenty thousand spectators turned out for the event chanting "Allahu Akbar" while Kordiyeh received a flogging of 214 lashes from relatives of his victims and then tied to a yellow building crane and lifted, legs kicking, high into the air with a rope around his neck. Relatives of the victims had called for Kordiyeh to be stoned to death. They had also called for his hands to be cut off before execution because he had also been accused of theft.

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(x) 26 years ago Saturday 12th of August 2000 118 die in K-141 Kursk nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine explosion in Murmanskaya Oblast, the Barents Sea. The explosion was caused by a faulty weld on a 65–76 "Kit" practice torpedo, leading to an explosion of high-test peroxide and secondary detonation of 5 to 7 torpedo warheads.

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(x) 17 years ago Wednesday 12th of August 2009 50-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'James Lee Byars was Never in Art Ghraib' and 'And Did Those Eyes in Recent Time' at R.I.T.E.S. in Old School, Mount Sophia, Singapore, Singapore. I drew the sign of the 'Red Dragon' on a sheet of paper with red paint. Then I stood for a while on a piece of cloth with a ritual milk 'kavadi' on my head. The kavadi was filled with red paint that I slowly poured over my head. Then I made a wad out of a piece of gold cloth filled with earth from my hole. I lay down on a sloping piece of wood, my head immersed in a tub of water. I stuffed the wad in my mouth and an unopened lotus flower into the wad. I remained with my head in the water until the wad and the lotus flower were completely sodden and I couldn't breathe no more.

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14 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 12th of August 2012 A snail in an acrobatic performance in Abbazia di Santa Maria di Sitria, Scheggia e Pascelupo, Umbria, Italy.

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(-) 12 years ago Tuesday 12th of August 2014 Actress Lauren Bacall, originally Betty Joan Perske dies of a stroke at the age of 90 in The Dakota, 72nd Street and Central Park West, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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