Friday 26 February 2016
23 events for Friday 26 February 2016
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214 Years Ago Today
Friday 26th of February 1802
Romantic poet and writer Victor Marie Hugo is born in 140 Grande Rue, Besançon, Franche-Comté, France. -
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187 Years Ago Today
Thursday 26th of February 1829
Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss known for Levi Strauss & Co. blue jeans is born as Löb Strauß in Marktstraße 33, Buttenheim, Bayern, Germany. -
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170 Years Ago Today
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. -
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164 Years Ago Today
Thursday 26th of February 1852
Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, United States. -
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164 Years Ago Today
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. -
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108 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 26th of February 1908
Animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director Tex Frederick Bean Avery is born in Taylor, Texas, United States. -
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107 Years Ago Today
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. -
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102 Years Ago Today
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. -
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88 Years Ago Today
Sunday 26th of February 1928
Singer-songwriter and musician Fats Antoine Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. -
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84 Years Ago Today
Friday 26th of February 1932
Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States. -
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73 Years Ago Today
Friday 26th of February 1943
The first transport of Gypsies arrives in KZ Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany. -
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73 Years Ago Today
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. -
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73 Years Ago Today
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. -
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58 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 26th of February 1958
Writer Michel Houellebecq is born as Michel Thomas in Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France. -
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57 Years Ago Today
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. -
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52 Years Ago Today
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. -
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45 Years Ago Today
Friday 26th of February 1971
Actor and singer Fernandel dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Avenue Foch, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France. -
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32 Years Ago Today
Sunday 26th of February 1984
21-year-old 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. -
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30 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 26th of February 1986
50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador and 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. -
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29 Years Ago Today She Came Out from the Cold
Thursday 26th of February 1987
Serial poisoner Audrey Marie Hilley 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. -
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18 Years Ago Today
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. -
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16 Years Ago Today
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. -
3 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Tuesday 26th of February 2013
James Chance and Les Contortions playing live in Magasin 4, Avenue du Port, 51b, Brussel, Belgium.
Friday 19 February 2016
21 events for Friday 19 February 2016
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543 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 19th of February 1473
Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in ul. Kopernika 15, Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Poland. -
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291 Years Ago Today
Monday 19th of February 1725
Innkeeper Mme Millet dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Reims, Marne, France.
Late at night 'Lion d'Or' innkeeper Jean Millet woke to the smell of fire. He rushed through the hallways to warn his guests, who followed him downstairs and came upon a horrifying sight of his wife. Parts of Mme Millet's head, backbone and legs lay smoldering on the kitchen floor. The rest of her was reduced to ash. Her chair by the fireplace was only slightly scorched, and there were burn marks under her remains. -
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118 Years Ago Today
Saturday 19th of February 1898
Cult leader Louwrens Lou Voorthuyzen aka Lou De Palingboer is born in Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. -
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92 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 19th of February 1924
Actor Lee Marvin is born in New York City, New York, United States. -
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82 Years Ago Today
Monday 19th of February 1934
Rapist and murderer James Corbett Rawlins is executed in the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. -
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70 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 19th of February 1946
Chemical technician and labor union activist Karen Gay Silkwood is born in Longview, Texas, United States. -
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65 Years Ago Today
Monday 19th of February 1951
Murderess Jean Lee is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Pentridge Prison, Coburg, Victoria, Australia.
On the morning of her execution Lee became hysterical and had to be sedated. She fainted when the executioner came to her cell and she was strapped semi-conscious to a chair. Lee was the last woman to be executed in Australia. -
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65 Years Ago Today
Monday 19th of February 1951
Murderer Robert David Clayton is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Pentridge Prison, Coburg, Victoria, Australia.
Clayton's last words were "Goodbye Charlie". -
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65 Years Ago Today
Monday 19th of February 1951
Murderer Norman Andrews is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Pentridge Prison, Coburg, Victoria, Australia.
Andrews's last words "Goodbye Robert". -
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65 Years Ago Today
Monday 19th of February 1951
Writer André Paul Guillaume Gide dies of natural causes at the age of 82 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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65 Years Ago Today
Monday 19th of February 1951
Serial killer Stephen Peter Morin aka Ray Constantine is born in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. -
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64 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 19th of February 1952
Writer Knut Hamsun dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in Nørholm, Grimstad, Sørlandet, Norway. -
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53 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 19th of February 1963
Singer and band leader Benny Moré aka El Bárbaro del Ritmo aka El Sonero Mayor dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44 in Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. -
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50 Years Ago Today
Saturday 19th of February 1966
45-year-old Stanisława Samul is attacked by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Gródków, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.
Samul survived. -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 19th of February 1980
Musician Bon Ronald Belford Scott known from AC/DC dies of pulmonary aspiration of vomit at the age of 34 in 67 Overhill Road, London, East Dulwich, South London, United Kingdom.
Scott passed out after a night of heavy drinking in the Music Machine club. He was left to sleep in a Renault 5 owned by Alistair Kinnear. The following afternoon Kinnear found Scott lifeless in the car. -
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31 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 19th of February 1985
148 die in Iberia Airlines Boeing 727–256 Flight 610 crash in Mount Oiz, Amorebieta-Etxano, Bizkaia, Spain. -
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27 Years Ago Today
Sunday 19th of February 1989
Daughter of Manson Family member Tex Watson, Mary Elizabeth Watson is born in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. -
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17 Years Ago Today
Friday 19th of February 1999
Murderer Wilford Lee Berry aka The Volunteer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.
Berry was the first convict to waive his right to appeal his death sentence after Ohio reinstated the death penalty. Berry became the first person to be executed in Ohio since 1963. -
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14 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 19th of February 2002
Murderer John William Byrd is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States. -
9 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Monday 19th of February 2007
Chinese New Year in Chinatown in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. -
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7 Years Ago Today
Thursday 19th of February 2009
50-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Oprichting en Manifest van het Bastardisme' at a literary event in Passa Porta, Dansaertstraat 46, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.
Friday 12 February 2016
37 events for Friday 12 February 2016
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212 Years Ago Today War es Gut
Sunday 12th of February 1804
Philosopher Immanuel Kant dies of poor health at the age of 80 in Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Kant's last words were "Es ist gut". -
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207 Years Ago Today
Sunday 12th of February 1809
Naturalist, geologist and evolutionary theorist Charles Robert Darwin is born in The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom. -
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207 Years Ago Today
Sunday 12th of February 1809
16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln is born in Sinking Spring, Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States. -
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155 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 12th of February 1861
Psychoanalyst and writer Lou Andreas-Salomé, originally Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. -
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149 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 12th of February 1867
Writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler is born in Nebra, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. -
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139 Years Ago Today
Monday 12th of February 1877
Automobile manufacturing pioneer Louis Renault is born in 14 Place de Laborde, Paris, VIIIe, Île-de-France, France. -
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134 Years Ago Today
Sunday 12th of February 1882
Prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, originally Anna Pavlovna Matveyevna Pavlova known for her role as The Dying Swan is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. -
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132 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 12th of February 1884
Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer Max Beckmann is born in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany. -
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123 Years Ago Today
Sunday 12th of February 1893
War leader Omar Nelson Bradley aka The G.I. 's General is born in Clark, Missouri, United States. -
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109 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 12th of February 1907
131 die in Larchmont Steamer shipwreck in Block Island, Rhode Island, United States. -
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107 Years Ago Today
Friday 12th of February 1909
Nazi doctor Sigmund Rascher known for his ‘freezing experiments’ on behalf of the Luftwaffe is born in München, Bayern, Germany. -
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103 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 12th of February 1913
Murderer Frederick Poulin is executed by Old Sparky in Dannemora Prison, Dannemora, New York, United States.
Poulin was the last man executed by the electric chair in Clinton Prison. -
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98 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 12th of February 1918
Black Jim McIlherron is chained to a tree and tortured to death with heated irons and a bonfire by a mob of 1200 locals in Estill Springs, Tennessee, United States. -
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93 Years Ago Today
Monday 12th of February 1923
17-year-old Fritz Franke is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Neue Straße 8, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. -
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74 Years Ago Today
Thursday 12th of February 1942
32-year-old Doris Jouannet aka Doris Robson is stabbed and sexually mutilated by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in 187 Sussex Gardens, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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68 Years Ago Today
Thursday 12th of February 1948
52-year-old Archibald Henderson is shot in the head and solved in acid by serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer in 2 Leopold Road, Crawley, Sussex, United Kingdom.
Haigh then lured the doctor's 41-year-old wife Rosalie Henderson to his workhop and killed her as well. -
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64 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 12th of February 1952
Serial killer Larry Craig Green aka The Zebra Killer is born in Berkeley, California, United States. -
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62 Years Ago Today
Friday 12th of February 1954
Film director Dziga Vertov, originally David Abelevich Kaufman known for Man with a Movie Camera dies of cancer at the age of 58 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. -
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60 Years Ago Today
Sunday 12th of February 1956
Murderer Willie Ray Williams is born in Houston, Texas, United States. -
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53 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 12th of February 1963
Victim of Randall Woodfield aka the I-5 Killer Julie Ann Reitz is born in Lansing, Illinois, United States. -
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45 Years Ago Today
Friday 12th of February 1971
29-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is arrested and charged with assault of a teenage boy in Chicago, Illinois, United States. -
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41 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 12th of February 1975
Double murderer Christopher Jay Swift is born in Dallas, Texas, United States. -
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37 Years Ago Today
Monday 12th of February 1979
Film director Jean Renoir dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Beverly Hills, California, United States. -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 12th of February 1980
34-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is convicted to death for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orange County Courthouse, 65 East Central Boulevard, Orlando, Florida, United States. -
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32 Years Ago Today
Sunday 12th of February 1984
Writer Julio Jules Florencio Cortázar aka The Simón Bolívar of the Novel dies of leukemia at the age of 70 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
Some sources state that Cortázar died from AIDS as a result of receiving a blood transfusion. -
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30 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 12th of February 1986
Diamond merchant Lazare Kaplan known for cutting the 726-carat Jonker diamond dies of natural causes at the age of 102 in Lew Beach, New York, United States. -
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27 Years Ago Today
Sunday 12th of February 1989
Writer Thomas Nicolaas Bernhard dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Gmunden, Oberösterreich, Austria. -
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23 Years Ago Today
Friday 12th of February 1993
James Patrick Bulger is abducted, tortured and stoned to death by 11-year-old Jon Venables and Robert Thompson at the age of 3 in Strand Shopping Centre, Liverpool, Bootle, Merseyside, United Kingdom. -
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22 Years Ago Today
Saturday 12th of February 1994
Minimal artist Donald Clarence Judd dies of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 66 in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States. -
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22 Years Ago Today
Saturday 12th of February 1994
48-year-old Mass murderer Freddy Horion aka De Zonnebril tries to escape through a hole in the wall of his cell in Leuven Centraal, Geldenaaksevest 64, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.
Horion was caught in the prison courtyard. -
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17 Years Ago Today
Friday 12th of February 1999
Mass murderer Edwin Bell commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 24 in Gardenwood Apartments, 1925 N. Gary Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
Minutes before Bell shot his 45-year-old mother Linda Farris, his 21-year-old wife Markita King and his children, 4-year-old Ebony, 2-year-old Essyce, and 8-month-old Marjonna. -
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16 Years Ago Today
Saturday 12th of February 2000
Musician Jalacy Hawkins aka Screamin' Jay Hawkins dies of an aneurism at the age of 71 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France. -
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13 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 12th of February 2003
Murderer Richard Edwin Fox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States. -
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12 Years Ago Today
Thursday 12th of February 2004
Double murderer Bobby Hopkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. -
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9 Years Ago Today
Monday 12th of February 2007
Mass murderer Sulejman Talović is shot dead by a police SWAT team at the age of 19 in Trolley Square Mall, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Talović had shot five people and wounded four in a shooting spree for no apparent reason. Talović's body was later found to have been struck a total of 15 times by bullets fired by police. The entire shooting lasted for six minutes. -
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5 Years Ago Today
Saturday 12th of February 2011
52-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Head of Waldo's Penis' in De Player, Tolhuisstraat 107 BG, Rotterdam, Katendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
A music performance with machines and voice for the presentation of 'Sound as a Weapon'.
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