30th year - N° 318 Saturday, 14 November 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 318 Saturday, 14 November 2015

14 November / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 175 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1840 Impressionist painter Claude Oscar Monet is born in 45 Rue Laffitte, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 152 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1863 Chemist Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland is born in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 138 years ago Wednesday 14th of November 1877 Clement Swanenburg is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 115 years ago Wednesday 14th of November 1900 Composer Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 107 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1908 Serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman, originally Sven Emil Sigvard Nilsson aka The Doctor is born in Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden. Apart from Thurneman, the Sala gang consisted of Bror Hedström, Åke Rangvald Lindberg, Roland Abrahamsson and Karl Herbert Jansson.

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(+) 107 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1908 Anti-Communist and anti-homosexual witch-hunter Joseph Raymond McCarthy is born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 85 years ago Friday 14th of November 1930 Sven Eriksson is shot in the back of the neck by serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor in Sörbobäcken, Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden.

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(-) 69 years ago Thursday 14th of November 1946 Composer Manuel de Falla, originally Manuel María de los Dolores Falla y Matheu dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 70 in Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina.

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(+) 62 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1953 Victim of Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker Patty Elaine Higgins is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago Monday 14th of November 1966 15-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen escapes from the Rosendael reformatory and assaults and rapes an unidentified woman in Rijmenam, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

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(x) 47 years ago Thursday 14th of November 1968 62-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer is found guilty of First Degree Murder in Wautoma, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1987 War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Loosdrecht, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 18 years ago Friday 14th of November 1997 33-year-old Serial killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist is sentenced to death for the rape-murders of 6 women in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Geralds dumped the bodies in the trash near his house.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 14th of November 2003 The tower of the Belgian National Broadcast Company where I was a guest in a talkshow with Jan Fabre and Jan Hoet in VRT, Reyerslaan, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 14th of November 2005 The advantage of not speaking Chinese and yet wandering as an unwary nobody into the forbidden wing of the museum in Museum of Natural History, 126 Tian Qiao Nan Street, Dongcheng, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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