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39th year  -  N° 88                 Thursday, 28 March 2024         Antwerpen		
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36 events for 16 August:

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    136 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 16th of August 1888

    Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia is born in Gorphwysfa, Tremadog, Wales, United Kingdom.


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    136 Years Ago Today His Valuable Brain Tonic Didn't Help

    Thursday 16th of August 1888

    Pharmacist John Stith Pemberton known for inventing Coca Cola dies of stomach cancer at the age of 57 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.


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    130 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 16th of August 1894

    Anarchist and assassin Sante Geronimo Caserio is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.


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    125 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 16th of August 1899

    Chemist Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen known for development of the Bunsen burner dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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    112 Years Ago Today

    Friday 16th of August 1912

    Murderess Virginia Christian is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 17 in Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond, Virginia, United States.

    Christian was the only female juvenile executed by the electric chair.


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    104 Years Ago Today

    Monday 16th of August 1920

    Poet and writer Charles Henry Bukowski aka Hank is born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Aktienstraße 12, Andernach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.


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    98 Years Ago Today

    Monday 16th of August 1926

    50-year-old Mary Nesbitt is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Oakland, California, United States.


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    96 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 16th of August 1928

    37-year-old Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder is arrested in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.


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    89 Years Ago Today

    Friday 16th of August 1935

    Pop artist Evelyne Devaux Axell is born in Namur, Namur, Belgium.


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    79 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 16th of August 1945

    Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi aka The Father of the Kamikaze commits suicide by Seppuku at the age of 54 in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

    Ōnishi did not use a kaishakunin (second), and died of self-inflicted injuries over a period of 15 hours.


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    76 Years Ago Today

    Monday 16th of August 1948

    Baseball player George Herman Ruth aka Babe Ruth aka The Sultan of Swat dies of nasopharyngeal carcinoma at the age of 53 in Memorial Hospital for Cancer, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.


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    74 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 16th of August 1950

    Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper is born in Judenburg, Steiermark, Austria.


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    74 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 16th of August 1950

    Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Petra Schelm is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.


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    68 Years Ago Today He Stayed in His Coffin

    Thursday 16th of August 1956

    Actor Bela Lugosi known for portraying Count Dracula dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

    Per request of his son George and fifth wife Hope Lininger, Lugosi was buried wearing one of the Dracula Cape costumes.


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    66 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 16th of August 1958

    Singer-songwriter and actress Madonna Louise Ciccone aka Madonna is born in Bay City, Michigan, United States.


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    64 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 16th of August 1960

    Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper Jayne Michelle MacDonald is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.


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    59 Years Ago Today He Was Burning Down the House

    Monday 16th of August 1965

    30-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker sets fire to the first floor of a building he owns, collecting $11.000 on insurance in 2039 East Fletcher Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.


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    55 Years Ago Today He Took Her from the Ballroom

    Saturday 16th of August 1969

    32-year-old Jemima McDonald is raped, beaten and strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in MacKeith Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

    McDonald met her unidentified killer at the Barrowland Ballroom.


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    55 Years Ago Today They Played Grand Auto Theft

    Saturday 16th of August 1969

    35-year-old Family leader Charles Milles Manson known for conspiracy to murder Sharon Tate is arrested in a police-raid on suspicion of leading a major auto theft ring that had been stealing Volkswagens and converting them into dune buggies in Spahn Ranch, 12000 Santa Susana Pass Road, Chatsworth, California, United States.

    21 other Manson Family members were also arrested but released after a couple of days due to a warrant misdate.


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    49 Years Ago Today He Carried Common Household Items

    Saturday 16th of August 1975

    29-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is arrested and charged with 'attempting to evade a police-officer' in Salt Lake City, Granger, Utah, United States.

    Noting that the Volkswagen's front passenger seat was missing the police officer searched Bundy's car and found a ski mask, a second mask fashioned from pantyhose, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, a coil of rope, an ice pick, and other items initially assumed to be burglary tools. Bundy explained that the ski mask was for skiing, he had found the handcuffs in a dumpster and the rest were common household items.


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    47 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 16th of August 1977

    Bartholomeus Bruyn’s 'Portrait', Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 'Portrait of Martin Luther and his wife Katharina von Bora' and several more paintings are attacked with acid by 40-year-old Serial art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann in Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum, Willy-Brandt-Allee 5, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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    47 Years Ago Today He Left the Building for Good

    Tuesday 16th of August 1977

    Singer and actor Elvis Aaron Presley aka The King of Rock and Roll dies of cardiac arrhythmia due to polypharmacy at the age of 42 in Graceland, 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Whitehaven, Tennessee, United States.


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    42 Years Ago Today

    Monday 16th of August 1982

    16-year-old Olga Kuprina is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

    Kuprina's body was found on 27 October in a forest belt near the Cossack Camps on the Rostov – Shakhty suburban line.


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    37 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 16th of August 1987

    156 die in Northwest Airlines Flight 255 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crash and disintegration in Wick Road, Detroit, Michigan, United States.

    4-year-old Cecelia Marie Cichan was the sole survivor.


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    29 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 16th of August 1995

    Triple murderer Leon Jerome Moser is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Rockview Penitentiary, Benner Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

    Moser killed his 35-year-old ex-wife Linda and their two daughters 14-year-old Donna and 10-year-old Joanne outside the St. James Episcopal Church in Lower Providence Township on Palm Sunday. Moser's last meal request was for a large cheese pizza, cheese slices, cold cuts, pasta salad, iced cup cakes and a 2-liter bottle of Coca-Cola.


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    26 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 16th of August 1998

    Serial killer Abdallah al-Hubal is shot dead in a police shootout at the age of 43 in Bayt al-Faqih, Al Hudaydah, Yemen.

    al-Hubal engaged in a firefight with the police killing one policeman and injuring several others before being shot himself.


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    24 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 16th of August 2000

    Murderer John Thomas Satterwhite is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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    23 Years Ago Today It started with a needle and it ended with a needle.

    Thursday 16th of August 2001

    Double murderer Jeffrey Carlton Doughtie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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    21 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 16th of August 2003

    44-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV plays with Henry Foundation in BB's Café, Jalan Sidoarjo, Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.

    Also played: The MiskinsThe UpstairsVesselPendulumThe AdamsSajama CutSugarStarThrashlineTeenage Death StarThe ProducersRockefellerKebunku


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    21 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 16th of August 2003

    58-year-old Artist Jörg Immendorff is caught with seven prostitutes (and four more on the way) and 10 grams of cocaïne in a Versace ashtrey in the luxury suite in Steigenberger Parkhotel, Königsallee 1a, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

    Immendorf explained it as an act of 'orientalism'.


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    21 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 16th of August 2003

    3rd President of Uganda Idi Amin aka the Butcher of Uganda dies of kidney failure at the age of 78 in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Hejaz, Saudi Arabia.



  • 21 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it

    Saturday 16th of August 2003

    Passengers in the back of a crowded pick-up truck aka public transport staring at a weird white guy in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.


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    19 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 16th of August 2005

    160 die in West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crash in Machiques, Zulia, Venezuela.


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    6 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 16th of August 2018

    Singer and musician Aretha Louise Franklin aka The Queen of Soul dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76 in Riverfront Towers, Detroit, Michigan, United States.


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    5 Years Ago Today

    Friday 16th of August 2019

    Actor Peter Henry Fonda dies of respiratory failure caused by lung cancer at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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    5 Years Ago Today

    Friday 16th of August 2019

    Cyclist Felice Gimondi aka The Phoenix dies after suffering a heart attack while swimming on vacation at the age of 77 in Giardini Naxos, Sicilia, Italy.



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