29th year - N° 341 Sunday, 7 December 2014

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29th year - N° 341 Sunday, 7 December 2014

7 December / Today's 10 Events:

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(-) 2057 years ago Monday 7th of December 0043bc Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated by Centurion Herennius at the age of 63 in Formia, Lazio, Italy. Cicero's last words are said to have been, "There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly." On Marcus Antonius' instructions his hands, which had penned the Philippics against him, were cut off as well as his head. Marcus Antonius' wife Fulvia took Cicero's head, pulled out his tongue, and jabbed it repeatedly with her hairpin in final revenge against his power of speech.

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(-) 122 years ago Wednesday 7th of December 1892 Emeline G. Cigrand is suffocated by serial killer Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor in Holmes Castle, S. Wallace and W. 63rd Street, Englewood, Chicago, Illinois, United States. She was locked in a vault and left to die. Holmes sold her skeleton to the LaSalle Medical School.

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(-) 76 years ago Wednesday 7th of December 1938 Serial poisoner Anna Marie Hahn, originally Filser aka Arsenic Anna aka The Blonde Borgia is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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(x) 73 years ago Sunday 7th of December 1941 The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the naval base in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, United States. Pearl Harbour was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. There were simultaneous Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines and on the British Empire in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.Four battleships and two other ships sunk, three battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers and three other ships were damaged, 188 aircraft were destroyed and 159 damaged, 2402 were killed and 1247 wounded. The Japanese had four midget submarines sunk and one grounded, 29 aircraft destroyed, 64 killed and one captured.

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(x) 68 years ago Saturday 7th of December 1946 119 die in Winecoff Hotel fire in Winecoff Hotel, 176 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was the deadliest hotel fire in United States history.

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(x) 54 years ago Wednesday 7th of December 1960 21-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter burns down a bus garage with three schoolbuses inside in Pocahontas, Iowa, United States.

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(x) 47 years ago Thursday 7th of December 1967 38-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is sentenced to five years imprisonment for car theft in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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(x) 31 years ago Wednesday 7th of December 1983 93 die in Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 Flight 350 and Aviaco McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Flight 134 collision in Madrid-Barajas Airport, Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain. 42 people survived.

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(-) 30 years ago Friday 7th of December 1984 Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 55 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. Hatcher hung himself with a piece of electrical wire in Unit 5C, Cell 213.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 7th of December 1999 The first night of the second coming in a guesthouse in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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