Finnish Axe Murderer Karl Emil Malmelin on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin killed seven people with an axe on this day in 1899 at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.

As an adult, Malmelin became a farmworker at the Simola croft in Klaukkala, a village in the southern part of the Nurmijärvi municipality. The tenant there was Johan Ezekiel Aspelin. Malmelin began dating Edla, the crofter's daughter, but when she would not become his wife, he killed everyone on the croft (a small farm) with an axe on 10 May 1899. Three of the victims were women and two were children. Malmelin was arrested a couple of weeks later.

Malmelin was sentenced to life imprisonment, BUT, after serving only 13 years, he was actually pardoned by Nicholas II in 1912.

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Robert Miles on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Swiss-Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ Robert Miles died on this day in 2017. His biggest accomplishment was a song called "Children." "Children" is one of the pioneering tracks of Dream house, a genre of electronic dance music characterized by dream-like piano melodies, and a steady four-on-the-floor bass drum. The creation of dream house was a response to social pressures in Italy during the early 1990s: the growth of rave culture among young adults, and the ensuing popularity of nightclub attendance, had created a weekly trend of deaths due to car accidents as clubbers drove across the country overnight, falling asleep at the wheel from strenuous dancing as well as alcohol and drug use. In mid-1996, deaths due to this phenomenon, called strage del sabato sera (Saturday night slaughter) in Italy, were being estimated at 2000 since the start of the decade. The move by DJs such as Miles to play slower, calming music to conclude a night's set, as a means to counteract the fast-paced, repetitive tracks that preceded, was met with approval by authorities and parents of car crash victims.

Miles' next single was "Fable". Part of this song was used in the theatrical trailer for the U.S. movie Ever After starring Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott. His debut album Dreamland was released on 7 June 1996 in Europe, and released in the United States about a month later. The album included a cover of "One and One" featuring British singer Maria Nayler. This cover became very popular (it reached number 1 in the Euro Top 100 Singles Chart during the Christmas period and remained in the top spot for six consecutive weeks) and was later released as a single in Europe and the U.S.

The songs on Dreamland showcase the genius of Robert Miles who created some of the best music in that genre.

Miles died from cancer in Ibiza, Spain, on 9 May 2017 at the age of 47.

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Violent Tax Resistance on This Day in History

This Day in History: Antoine Lavoisier, who was amongst many other things, a tax collector, was tried, convicted and guillotined all in one day in Paris, on May 8 in 1794. 

Violent tax resistance has played a significant role in the collapse of several empires, including the Egyptian, Roman, Spanish, and Aztec empires. However, the French have had quite the unique history of tax resistance.

In 1615, the residents of one commune refused to pay the wine tithe and threatened to throw the collector into the Rhône.

In Poitiers, France, in 1624 and again on multiple occasions in 1663, mobs attacked inns where French tax farmers were staying, threatening to torch the building and kill those inside.

The success of anti-tax rebellions in Saintonge and Angoumois led to other rebellions in France, including some in which excise officers were lynched. The most notorious incident was the massacre of tax officers responsible for collecting the gabelle at Agen in June 1635.

A second "Croquants′ Revolt" in 1636–37 (with some outbreaks as early as 1628) concerned the taxes being raised to support France′s entry into the Thirty Years' War. The revolt included the lynching of tax officials, a tax strike, and a major battle at which over 2,000 people were killed. The major rebellion was defeated, but outbreaks of mass tax resistance continued as late as 1658.

From 1638 to 1645, the residents of Pardiac refused to pay their taxes, rose up to free the officials who had been imprisoned for failure to remit the tax money, repulsed government troops sent to enforce the tax laws, and massacred a tax official and his bodyguard. 

In 1639–43, the revolt of the va-nu-pieds in Normandy included a tax strike and attacks on the homes of tax farmers. In 1643 there were attacks on tax collectors in multiple regions of France. The Fronde of 1646–53 was also marked by anti-tax riots.

The revolt of the papier timbré in 1675 was centered on a new stamp tax, and included destruction of tax offices and attacks on tax- and tithe-collectors.

In 1682, a village curate led a tax revolt in which the villagers stoned the monks and the tithe agent who had come to collect a grain tithe.

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America's First Serial Killer on This Day in History

This day in history: H.H. Holmes was executed on this day in 1896. Perhaps one of America's first serial killers, Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) confessed to 27 murders. He is said to have killed as many as 200. During the 1890's world fair in Chicago, he built what came to be known as a murder castle, a building that had rooms with hinged walls, false partitions, secret passageways, and even airtight rooms that were connected to pipelines filled with gas which Holmes used as gas chambers. Chutes were used to deliver bodies to the basement where they were dissected. His story is featured in the excellent book by Erik Larson "The Devil in the White City".

On May 7, 1896, Holmes was hanged at Moyamensing Prison, also known as the Philadelphia County Prison, for the murder of Pitezel. Until the moment of his death, Holmes remained calm and amiable, showing very few signs of fear, anxiety, or depression. Despite this, he asked for his coffin to be contained in cement and buried 10 feet deep, because he was concerned grave robbers would steal his body and use it for dissection. Holmes's neck did not break; he instead strangled to death slowly, twitching for over 15 minutes before being pronounced dead 20 minutes after the trap had been sprung.

In 2017, amid allegations Holmes had in fact escaped execution, Holmes's body was exhumed for testing led by Janet Monge of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Due to his coffin being contained in cement, his body was found not to have decomposed normally. His clothes were almost perfectly preserved and his mustache was found to be intact. The body was positively identified by his teeth as being that of Holmes. Holmes was then reburied.

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The Servant Girl Annihilator on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Eliza Shelly was murdered on this day (May 6) in 1885 by the Servant Girl Annihilator. 

The Servant Girl Annihilator, also known as the Austin Axe Murderer and the Midnight Assassin, was an unidentified American serial killer who preyed upon the city of Austin, Texas, between 1884 and 1885. The sobriquet originated with the writer O. Henry. The series of eight axe murders were referred to by contemporary sources as the Servant Girl Murders.

The December 26, 1885, issue of The New York Times reported that the "murders were committed by some cunning madman, who is insane on the subject of killing women." The murders represent an early example of a serial killer operating in the United States, three years before the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel.

According to author Philip Sugden in The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, the conjecture that the Texas killer and Jack the Ripper were one and the same man originated in October 1888, when an editor with the Atlanta Constitution proposed this conjecture, following the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes by Jack the Ripper.

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The Guardian Newspaper on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, was published on this day in 1821. The Guardian is known as a Leftist rag. The paper was described in the 1930s as "the Communist paper, The Manchester Guardian" by Lord Beaverbrook, and even earlier in Victorian times by the communist Friedrich Engels as "an organ of the middle class".

In 2016, when the UK magistrate Richard Page was dismissed from his post in the judiciary for merely saying he believed children were better off with a mother and father, The Guardian reported the case as "Magistrate sacked over religious opposition to same-sex couples adopting".

In September 2016, The Guardian reported that there had been a huge "spike" in hate-crimes against Eastern Europeans in Britain since the Brexit vote, and highlighted the death of Arkadiusz Jóźwik, who died in a late-night fight in Harlow, Essex, which they called a "suspected hate-crime". They repeated these allegations in a series of articles. But when the case eventually came to court, the verdict was that Jóźwik's death was the result of a drunken brawl, not a "hate crime attack". The source of the figures about a so-called "spike in hate-crime" was just a single police statement taking figures from a website called True Vision where anonymous reports can be made without proof. 

On 14 June 2018 The Guardian published an article by Claude Moraes entitled "The far right is organised and growing. Those Nazi salutes are serious". It referred to a demonstration held on 9 June in London in protest at the imprisonment of campaigner Tommy Robinson. The only evidence the article brings of "Nazi salutes" is a photograph in which one man is holding up both arms with fingers splayed, and another behind him is holding up a placard. The article alleged that the demonstrators had been violent and aggressive and had attacked the police. This was untrue. No arrests were made at the demonstration despite the fact, reported by many who attended and shown on video coverage, that the Metropolitan police went to great lengths to try to provoke a violent incident. ALL THIS DESPITE the fact that  Tommy Robinson was demonstrating against Rape Gangs targeting white girls.

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Greenpeace on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation" on this day (May 4) in 1972.

Greenpeace is a leftist environmentalist group that focuses its campaigning on eco-religious issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues. It uses direct action, lobbying, research, and ecotage (eco-terrorism) to achieve its goals.

It has been accused of manipulating public opinion in a way that would be ordinarily be condemned:

Greenpeace has escaped public censure by hiding behind the mask of its “non-profit” status and its U.S. tax exemption. ... Forbes magazine once described it as “a skillfully managed business” with full command of “the tools of direct mail and image manipulation -- and tactics that would bring instant condemnation if practiced by a for-profit corporation.” ~Deroy Murdock

Environmental groups like Greenpeace have boasted that they have, unfortunately, blocked more than 200 hydroelectric projects in the developing world over the past two decades. Greenpeace wants to shut down all the nuclear reactors and phase out nuclear power, despite the fact that nuclear power is clean and safe. 

Former Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore has been critical of the movement and left it in 1986 because "[t]he environmental movement abandoned science and logic somewhere in the mid-1980s." He also states that "The future will show that this whole hysteria over climate change was a complete fabrication. Climate  Crisis is 100% fake. There’s always been weather crises."

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