29th year - N° 345 Thursday, 11 December 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 345 Thursday, 11 December 2014

11 December / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 539 years ago Saturday 11th of December 1475 217th Pope Leo X, originally Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici is born in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(-) 232 years ago Wednesday 11th of December 1782 Mass murderer William Beadle commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 52 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, United States. Earlier that day Beadle slit the throats of his 32-year-old wife Lydia and his children, 11-year-old Ansel Lothrop, 10-year-old Elizabeth, 8-year-old Lydia and 6-year-old Mary.

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171 years ago Monday 11th of December 1843 Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Herman Koch is born in Clausthal, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 94 years ago Saturday 11th of December 1920 During a performance of 'L'elisir d'amore' by Donizetti, 47-year-old Tenor Enrico Caruso suffers a throat haemorrhage and starts bleeding heavily from the mouth in Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. The performance was canceled at the end of Act 1.

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(+) 78 years ago Friday 11th of December 1936 Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker is born in Northern Liberties Hospital, 802-10 N. 7th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Kallinger was born illigimate to 21-year-old Judith Renner. In December 1937 Kallinger was placed in a foster home after his father had abandoned his mother. On 15 October 1939 he was adopted by Stephen and Anna Kallinger.

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(-) 63 years ago Tuesday 11th of December 1951 Murderer Herbert Leonard Mills is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 19 in Lincoln Prison, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 54 years ago Sunday 11th of December 1960 73-year-old Postal worker and would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick plans to blow op President John F. Kennedy in St. Edward Church, 144 North County Road, Palm Beach, Florida, United States. As Kennedy was preparing to leave for mass Pavlick waited in his dynamite-laden car hoping to detonate his 1950 Buick to cause a fatal explosion. However Pavlick changed his mind after seeing Jacqueline Kennedy and the couple's two small children.

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(-) 50 years ago Friday 11th of December 1964 Singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, originally Samuel Cook is presumably shot dead by Bertha Franklin at the age of 33 in Hacienda Motel, 9137 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, United States. Cooke supposedly broke into manager Franklin's apartment wearing nothing but a shoe and a raincoat. Singer Etta James told that apart from being shot, Cooke had been so badly beaten that his head was nearly separated from his shoulders, his hands were broken and crushed, and his nose mangled.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 11th of December 1970 45-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion mit Hammel' in Pädagogische Hochschule, Lange Reihe 81, Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

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(x) 39 years ago Thursday 11th of December 1975 39-year-old Multiple murderer Donald Neilson, originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther is arrested and beaten up by members of the public in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 38 years ago Saturday 11th of December 1976 Gregory Godzik is strangled by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 36 years ago Monday 11th of December 1978 Robert Jerome Piest is murdered by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 16 years ago Friday 11th of December 1998 101 die in Thai Airways International Airbus A310-300 Flight 261 crash in Surat Thani Airport, Surat Thani, Surat Thani, Thailand. 45 people survived.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 11th of December 1999 A large worm caught under the house of an artist. Usually they pour whisky over it in a jar, let the worm die in it and rest for 24 hours. Then you drink it to become a strong man in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 7 years ago Tuesday 11th of December 2007 58-year-old Serial killer Robert William 'Willie' Pickton aka The Pig Farmer Killer is sentenced to life with no possibility of parole for 25 years in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

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