Saturday 24th of February 1500

Holy Roman Emperor Karl V is born in Prinsenhof, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Monday 24th of February 1536

231st Pope Clemens VIII is born as Ippolito Aldobrandini in Fano, Marche, Italy.

Sunday 24th of February 1732

Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General dies of natural causes at the age of 67 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 24th of February 1767

Murderer Patrick Redmond is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

After 28 minutes Redmond was declared dead. Redmond was taken down and revived after 6 hours by the use of bronchotomy.

Friday 24th of February 1786

Folklorist and mythologist Wilhelm Karl Grimm is born in Hanau, Hessen, Germany.

Tuesday 24th of February 1874

Victim of Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie Clement Swanenburg is born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Wednesday 24th of February 1875

102 die in SS Gothenburg shipwreck in Holbourne Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

Friday 24th of February 1922

Pop artist Richard William Hamilton is born in London, Pimlico, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Thursday 24th of February 1927

Muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso Jacqueline Roque is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 24th of February 1939

Kidnapper and child murderer Franklin Pierce McCall is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 23 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

Saturday 24th of February 1940

Mail and Performance artist Anna Banana is born as Anne Lee Long in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Thursday 24th of February 1949

Member of Bewegung 2. Juni Thomas Weisbecker is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Thursday 24th of February 1949

Serial killer Randy Greenawalt is born in Hannibal, Missouri, United States.

Tuesday 24th of February 1953

Cricketer and murderer Miles William Giffard is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Horfield Prison, Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.

Giffard had beaten his 53-year-old father Charles and mother Elizabeth to death with a lead pipe on 7 November 1952. Giffard took the bodies and tipped them over the cliff at the end of the garden and then got in the car and drove to see his girlfriend in London.

Tuesday 24th of February 1953

War leader Gerd Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt dies of heart failure at the age of 78 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Wednesday 24th of February 1954

Musician and songwriter Roger François Jouret aka Plastic Bertrand is born in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

Thursday 24th of February 1955

Spree killer Woo Bum-kon is born in Pusan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.

Friday 24th of February 1956

Murderer Arthur Ross Brown is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 31 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States.

For his last meal Brown had the same as the prison staff, soup, crackers, fried beaf steak, french fries, buttered noodles, spinach, biscuits, coffee, milk and cookies.

Wednesday 24th of February 1960

Murderer Earl Lewis Steward is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 41 in Nevada State Prison, 3301 E. 5th Street, Carson City, Nevada, United States.

Friday 24th of February 1967

36-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man escapes in Bridgewater State Hospital, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States.

DeSalvo was arrested 30 hours later in West Lynn, Massachusetts.

Monday 24th of February 1969

18-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen escapes from reformatory school in Ruiselede, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Van Eyken left the country for the Netherlands.

Monday 24th of February 1969

37-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black plays live in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

The setlist was Wanted Man, Wreck of the Old 97, I Walk the Line, Darling Companion, Starkville City Jail, San Quentin, San Quentin" (performed a second time at the audience's request), A Boy Named Sue, (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley, Folsom Prison Blues.

Tuesday 24th of February 1970

Assassin Josef Erwin Bachmann known for shooting Rudi Dutschke commits suicide by asphyxiation with a plastic bag at the age of 26 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Tegel, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Saturday 24th of February 1973

Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by 27-year-old Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, 24-year-old Toni Antoinette Denise White, 21-year-old James Cyril Cendrillon and 17-year-old Alphons Joseph Klimek at the age of 20 in Raynes Park Road, Hampton, Australia.

"After confronting her and asking more questions it came out that she had sex feelings about the hose on the vacuum cleaner and bananas in a bowl in the room. We all slapped her and she was punched in the stomach. She fell when she was pushed and hit her head on the floor."

Thursday 24th of February 1983

Noise music band Club Moral play their 22nd concert in De Nieuwe Workshop, Oude Graanmarkt 5, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

Friday 24th of February 1989

Fictional character Laura Palmer known from the TV series Twin Peaks is murdered by persons unkown at the age of 18 in Twin Peaks, Washington, United States.

Palmer's murder was possibly inspired by the unsolved death of Hazel Irene Drew (1888-1908), who was found dead in Teal's Pond in Sand Lake, New York.

Wednesday 24th of February 1999

Murderer Karl-Heinz LaGrand is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Wednesday 24th of February 1999

Murderer Norman Evans Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Thursday 24th of February 2000

Murderess Betty Lou Beets is executed by lethal injection at the age of 63 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Beets was convicted to death for shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on 6 August 1983. Also found buried in a garage were the remains of another Beets' husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. Beets did not request a final meal.

Friday 24th of February 2006

Actor Dennis William Weaver dies of cancer at the age of 82 in Ridgway, Colorado, United States.

Friday 24th of February 2006

The Rue Le Sueur where Serial Killer Dr. Marcel Petiot killed about 63 people at n° 21 (the original building however was torn down) in his infamous 'Triangular Chamber of Death', before and during WWII in 21 Rue Le Sueur, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France.