29th year - N° 355 Sunday, 21 December 2014

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29th year - N° 355 Sunday, 21 December 2014

21 December / Today's 9 Events:

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(x) 103 years ago Thursday 21st of December 1911 Société Générale bank messenger Ernest Caby is robbed and shot by 35-year-old Illegalist Jules Bonnot aka Le Bourgeois known from ‘La Bande à Bonnot’ and his gang in 148 rue Ordener, XVIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. The holdup was the first ever criminal use of a get-away car, a green-and-black 12CV Delaunay-Belleville 1910 model.

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(-) 79 years ago Saturday 21st of December 1935 Journalist, satirist and writer Kurt Tucholsky aka Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 45 in Hindås, Västergötland, Sweden.

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(x) 78 years ago Monday 21st of December 1936 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(+) 77 years ago Tuesday 21st of December 1937 Actress, political activist and fitness guru Jane Fonda, originally Jayne Seymour Fonda is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 63 years ago Friday 21st of December 1951 119 die in Orient No. 2 coal mine explosion in Orient No. 2, West Frankfort, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 62 years ago Sunday 21st of December 1952 Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer is born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 31 years ago Wednesday 21st of December 1983 38-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company is slashed across the cheek with razor by 21-year-old Albert Moffat in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Nilsen needed 89 stitches.

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(x) 26 years ago Wednesday 21st of December 1988 270 die in Pan Am Boeing 747-121 Flight 103 bomb explosion in Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom. The plane was sabotaged by Libyan terrorists. In 2001 Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for the bombing.

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(x) 4 years ago Tuesday 21st of December 2010 41-year-old Serial killer Stephen Shaun Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal is sentenced to life imprionment for three murders in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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