37 events for Friday 12 February 2016

• (-) 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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• (x) 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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• (x) 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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• (x) 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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• (x) 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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• (x) 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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• 5 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it Saturday 12th of February 2011 The selector dancing to exclusive tracks from the 'Sound as a Weapon' releases by 'De Player' on the live launch event in De Player, Tolhuisstraat 107 BG, Rotterdam, Katendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.