25 events for Friday 13 May 2016

• (+) 361 Years Ago Today Thursday 13th of May 1655 244th Pope Innocentius XIII is born as Michelangelo dei Conti in Poli, Lazio, Italy.




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• (+) 224 Years Ago Today Sunday 13th of May 1792 255th Pope Pius IX is born as Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti in Senigallia, Marche, Italy.




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• (+) 147 Years Ago Today Thursday 13th of May 1869 Solicitor and murderer Herbert Rowse Armstrong is born in Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 134 Years Ago Today Saturday 13th of May 1882 Artist Georges Braque is born in Argenteuil, Val d'Oise, France.




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• (+) 109 Years Ago Today She Was not Rebecca Monday 13th of May 1907 Writer and playwright Daphne du Maurier is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 85 Years Ago Today Wednesday 13th of May 1931 Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim James Warren Jones is born in Lynn, Indiana, United States.




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• (+) 77 Years Ago Today Saturday 13th of May 1939 Actor Harvey Keitel is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.




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• (+) 75 Years Ago Today Tuesday 13th of May 1941 Singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens is born as Richard Steven Valenzuela in Los Angeles, Pacoima, California, United States.




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• (+) 69 Years Ago Today Tuesday 13th of May 1947 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Irmgard Möller is born in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.




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• (+) 66 Years Ago Today Saturday 13th of May 1950 Singer-songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder is born as Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan, United States.




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• (+) 59 Years Ago Today Monday 13th of May 1957 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Andrea Martina Klump is born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.




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• (-) 55 Years Ago Today Saturday 13th of May 1961 Actor Gary Cooper dies of cancer at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, United States.




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• (-) 54 Years Ago Today Sunday 13th of May 1962 Abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline dies of a rheumatic heart disease at the age of 52 in New York City, New York, United States.




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• (+) 48 Years Ago Today Monday 13th of May 1968 Double murderer James Lee Clark is born in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.




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• (x) 47 Years Ago Today Tuesday 13th of May 1969 196 die in Sino-Malay race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.




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• (x) 44 Years Ago Today Saturday 13th of May 1972 118 die in Sennichi Department Store Building fire in Osaka, Sennichimae, Kinki, Japan. 96 Dead were found in the Playtown Cabaret on the 6th floor, they died by carbon dioxide poisoning. Three people died from compression injuries in the chest and abdomen (meaning that they were probably trampled to death) and 22 died from jumping.




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• (+) 44 Years Ago Today Saturday 13th of May 1972 Multiple murderer Marion Butler Dudley is born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.




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• (x) 37 Years Ago Today Sunday 13th of May 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Installation - 2' in Turfschip, Chasséveld, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. I was hanging with my arms spread and blindfolded in a darkened corridor. To my feet ropes were attached, leading to the door. Each time somebody entered he/she pulled my body towards him/her.




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• (x) 35 Years Ago Today Wednesday 13th of May 1981 61-year-old Ioannes Paulus II is shot and wounded by 24-year-old Mehmet Ali Ağca in Piazza San Pietro, Rome, Vatican City, Lazio, Italy. The Pope was struck four times and suffered severe blood loss.




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• (-) 31 Years Ago Today He Didn't Move Anymore Monday 13th of May 1985 Founder of MOVE black liberation group John Africa is fatally shot during an armed standoff with the Philadelphia Police Department at the age of 54 in 6221 Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, . Africa was killed along with five other adults and five children when the Philadelphia Police Department head of bomb disposal dropped a satchel containing a gel-based explosive from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter on a fortified bunker occupied by members of MOVE. The resulting explosion started a fire that resulted in the destruction of 65 homes in the neighborhood.




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• (x) 26 Years Ago Today Sunday 13th of May 1990 30-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal rents room 213 where he will kill and dismember 13 people in less than 2 years in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.




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• (-) 19 Years Ago Today Tuesday 13th of May 1997 Murderer Anthony Ray Westley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.




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• (-) 11 Years Ago Today Friday 13th of May 2005 Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Osborn Correctional Institution, 335 Bilton Road, Somers, Connecticut, United States.




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• (x) 2 Years Ago Today Tuesday 13th of May 2014 301 die in Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. Mine explosion and fire in Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. Mine, Soma, Manisa, Turkey.