Friday, December 27, 2013

90 Years Ago Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Gave Him Final Relief

296 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 December 1717
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250th Pope Pius VI originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi, is born in Cesena, Italy.

191 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 December 1822
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Scientist Louis Pasteur is born in Dole, France.

168 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 December 1845
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Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, is born in Guterslöh, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

112 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 December 1901
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Actress Marlene Dietrich originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch, is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 December 1923
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Architect and engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel dies at the age of 91 in Paris, Rue Rabelais, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 December 1925
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Writer and lawyer Louis Dosfel dies at the age of 44 in Belgium.

69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 December 1944
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Execution ‘en masse’ of the French Gestapo in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 December 1948
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Actor Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is born in Châteauroux, France.

63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 December 1950
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Artist Max Beckmann dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 December 1957
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Isabelle Cooke is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, at the age of 17 in Burntbroom, Scotland, United Kingdom.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 December 1960
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Multiple Murderer Ricky Lee Green is born in United States.

48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 December 1965
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Serial Killer Jean-Thierry Mathurin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is born in St. Laurent de Maroni, Guyana.

38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 December 1975
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Over 750 Die in coal-mine explosion in Bihar, India.

30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 December 1983
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63-year-old 264th Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Jozef Wojtila, visits his attempted assassin Mehmet Ali Agça in the Rebiba Prison in Rome, Roma, Italy.

30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 December 1983
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An unidentified girl is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.

27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 December 1986
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Steven Fefferman is castrated and stabbed to death by Ricky Green at the age of 29 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 December 2007
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Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto is killed in an al-Qaeda suicide bomb attack at the age of 54 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Some 20 bystanders were also killed in the blast.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 December 2007
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Filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz dies at the age of 85 in Warsaw, Poland.

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