Saturday, December 31, 2016

31st year - N° 366 Saturday, 31 December 2016

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31st year - N° 366 Saturday, 31 December 2016

31 December / Today's 22 Events:
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1681 years ago

Tuesday 31st of December 0335

33rd Pope Silvester I dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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638 years ago

Thursday 31st of December 1378

209th Pope Callixtus III, originally Alfons de Borja is born in Valencia, Valencia, Spain.


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502 years ago

Thursday 31st of December 1514

Anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius, originally Andries van Wesel is born in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.


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147 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1869

Artist Henri Émile-Benoît Matisse is born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.


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139 years ago

Monday 31st of December 1877

Painter Gustave Jean Désiré Courbet dies of a liver disease aggravated by heavy drinking at the age of 58 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland.


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118 years ago

Saturday 31st of December 1898

Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France.


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118 years ago

Saturday 31st of December 1898

Singer and actress Umm Kulthum, originally Fātimah ʾIbrāhīm as-Sayyid al-Biltāǧī aka The Nightingale of the Nile is born in Tamay e-Zahayra, El Senbellawein, Dakahlia, Egypt.

Some sources say Kulthum was born on 4 May 1904.


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108 years ago

Thursday 31st of December 1908

Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal is born in Buczacz, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.


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94 years ago

Sunday 31st of December 1922

The Goetheanum, built by 61-year-old Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy is destroyed by fire in Goetheanum, Dornach, Solothurn, Switzerland.

Steiner's Goetheanum is destroyed by arson during the night of New Year's Eve, 31 December 1922 - 1 January 1923.


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79 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1937

Actor Anthony Philip Hopkins known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in the movie ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is born in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.


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73 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1943

Singer-songwriter John Denver, originally Henry John Deutschendorf is born in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.


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73 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1943

Actor Ben Kingsley, originally Krishna Bhanji is born in Snainton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.


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68 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1948

Singer-songwriter Donna Summer, originally LaDonna Adrian Gaines aka The Queen of Disco is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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57 years ago

Thursday 31st of December 1959

Actor Val Edward Kilmer is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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56 years ago

Saturday 31st of December 1960

Serial killer John Allen Muhammad, originally John Allen Williams aka The Beltway Sniper is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.


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54 years ago

Monday 31st of December 1962

Patricia Bissette is raped and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 515 Park Drive, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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50 years ago

Saturday 31st of December 1966

Tuula Hoeoek is presumably battered to death by Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey in Rue Laurens, St. Clement, Jersey, United Kingdom.

In July 2013 the case was reopened.


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47 years ago

Wednesday 31st of December 1969

Labor leader of the United Mine Workers Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock is shot dead in his house by three hitmen hired by a union political opponent at the age of 59 in East Bethlehem Township, Clarksville, Pennsylvania, United States.

Yablonski's wife Margaret and 25-year-old daughter Charlotte were also shot dead. Their bodies were found on 5 January 1970 by Yablonski's son Kenneth.


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36 years ago The Medium of the Message was Dead

Wednesday 31st of December 1980

Philosopher Marshall Herbert McLuhan known for “the medium is the message” dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 69 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


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34 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1982

Toshimitsu Ozawa is attacked by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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32 years ago

Monday 31st of December 1984

37-year-old Bernhard Hugo Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante turns himself in for the shooting of four robbers in a subway train in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.

Goetz shot them on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan on 22 December 1984.


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30 years ago

Wednesday 31st of December 1986

97 die in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Dupont Plaza, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The fire was set with the intention of scaring tourists away by Héctor Escudero Aponte, José Rivera López and Arnaldo Jiménez Rivera, three disgruntled employees of the hotel who were in the middle of a labor dispute with the owners.


Friday, December 30, 2016

31st year - N° 365 Friday, 30 December 2016

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31st year - N° 365 Friday, 30 December 2016

30 December / Today's 20 Events:
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406 years ago

Thursday 30th of December 1610

50-year-old Countess and serial killer Erzsébet de Ecsed Báthory aka Die Blutfrau and four of her servants, who were accused of being her accomplices: Dorotya Semtész, Ilona Jó, Katarína Benická and János Újváry aka Ibis aka Fickó are arrested in Csejte Vára, Čachtice, Trenčín, Slowakia.

One girl was found dead and one dying in Báthory's castle.


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151 years ago

Saturday 30th of December 1865

Writer Rudyard Joseph Kipling known for his novel ‘Jungle Book’ is born in J.J. School, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, India.


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130 years ago

Thursday 30th of December 1886

Artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare is born in Bloomfield House, Bloomfield Place, King Street, Snow Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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113 years ago

Wednesday 30th of December 1903

605 die in Iroquois Theatre fire in Iroquois Theatre, 24–28 West Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

At the beginning of the second act, a dance number in the popular Drury Lane musical 'Mr. Bluebeard', was in progress when an arc light shorted out and sparks ignited a muslin curtain.


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107 years ago

Thursday 30th of December 1909

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinz Martin is born in Chemnitz, Sachsen, Germany.


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106 years ago

Friday 30th of December 1910

Writer Paul Frederic Bowles is born in Queens, New York, New York, United States.


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88 years ago He Originated

Sunday 30th of December 1928

Musician Bo Diddley, originally Ellas Otha Bates aka The Originator is born in McComb, Mississippi, United States.


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84 years ago

Friday 30th of December 1932

Trained nurse and triple murderess Daisy de Melker, originally Daisy Louisa Hancorn-Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

De Melker poisoned her husband and son with arsenic. Two other husbands and four children had died suspiciously.


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82 years ago He Was no Runaway

Sunday 30th of December 1934

Singer-songwriter and musician Del Shannon, originally Charles Weedon Westover is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.


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70 years ago

Monday 30th of December 1946

Poet and musician Patti Patricia Lee Smith aka The Godmother of Punk is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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69 years ago

Tuesday 30th of December 1947

Art forger Han Henricus Antonius van Meegeren dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Valeriuskliniek, Valeriusplein, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.


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60 years ago

Sunday 30th of December 1956

41-year-old Art vandal Hugo Unzaga Villegas throws a brick at Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' in Musée du Louvre, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

A psychiatric report on Villegas by Dr. Gouriou on 14 January 1957 found that the man was insane, heard strange voices, and had intended to murder the Argentinean dictator Juan Perón but went instead for the less well protected Mona Lisa.


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57 years ago

Wednesday 30th of December 1959

Actress and comedian Tracey Ullman, originally Trace is born in Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.


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50 years ago

Friday 30th of December 1966

Murderer Stanley Allison Baker is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Baker's father was in the US Army in Paris.


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38 years ago

Saturday 30th of December 1978

32-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness escapes in County Jail, 107 8th Street, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, United States.

Bundy piled books and files in his bunk bed under a blanket to simulate his sleeping body and slipped into the crawlspace above his cell. He broke through the ceiling into the apartment of the chief jailer who was out for the evening with his wife, changed into street clothes from the jailer's closet and walked out the front door to freedom.


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38 years ago

Saturday 30th of December 1978

Stephen Dean Holmes is strangled and drowned by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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34 years ago

Thursday 30th of December 1982

David M. Block is stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Deerfield, Illinois, United States.

Block's body was found on 7 May 1984 in Zion, Illinois.


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20 years ago

Monday 30th of December 1996

Over 100 die in Brahmaputra Mail passenger train bomb explosion in Fakiragram, Assam, India.

The Indian government blamed the attack on an Assamese separatist organisation Bodo Security Force.


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12 years ago

Thursday 30th of December 2004

194 die in República Cromañón nightclub fire in República Cromañón, 3060/3066/3070 Bartolomé Mitre, Balvanera, Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The blaze was started when a pyrotechnic flare was set off during a concert by the rock group 'Callejeros', and ignited foam in the ceiling. Four of the six doors had been wired shut to keep out "people who would not enter without paying".



10 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 30th of December 2006

Detail of a blood painting by Hermann Nitsch in a retrospective exhibition in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


Thursday, December 29, 2016

31st year - N° 364 Thursday, 29 December 2016

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31st year - N° 364 Thursday, 29 December 2016

29 December / Today's 23 Events:
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295 years ago

Monday 29th of December 1721

Courtisane and official chief mistress of King Louis XV Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson aka Madame de Pompadour is born in Rue de Cléry, IIe, Paris, Île-de-France, Belgium.


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216 years ago

Monday 29th of December 1800

Engineer and chemist Charles Goodyear is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.


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208 years ago

Thursday 29th of December 1808

17th President of the United States Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.


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182 years ago

Monday 29th of December 1834

Poet Charlotte Stieglitz commits suicide by driving a dagger through her heart at the age of 28 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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140 years ago

Friday 29th of December 1876

92 die in Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Pacific Express Train n° 5 derailment in Ashtabula River Bridge, Edgewood, Ohio, United States.

The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The survivors were led, carried and conveyed on sleds to hotels and private houses in the town, there being no hospital. However, people assisting also stole money and valuables from the survivors and dead, $1500 (about $33000 today). Bridge designer Amasa Stone committed suicide seven years later after experiencing financial difficulties with some foundries he had interests in, suffering from severe ulcers that kept him from sleeping and scorn from the public over the disaster.


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126 years ago

Monday 29th of December 1890

Between 175 and 300 Lakota Indians are massacred by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside in Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, United States.


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95 years ago

Thursday 29th of December 1921

Founder of the Solar Lodge secret society Georgina Jean Brayton aka Soror Capricornus is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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93 years ago

Saturday 29th of December 1923

Presumed murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.


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93 years ago

Saturday 29th of December 1923

Victim of Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Merle Collison is born in Great Falls, Montana, United States.


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90 years ago

Wednesday 29th of December 1926

Poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, originally René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Clinique de Valmont, Route de Valmont, Glion sur Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland.

Rilke suffered ulcerous sores in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines and he struggled with increasingly low spirits.


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83 years ago

Friday 29th of December 1933

Quaker and anti-war protester Norman Morrison is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.


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80 years ago

Tuesday 29th of December 1936

Actress Mary Tyler Moore known from The Mary Tyler Moore Show is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.


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78 years ago

Thursday 29th of December 1938

Actor Jon Jonathan Vincent Voight is born in Yonkers, New York, United States.


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73 years ago

Wednesday 29th of December 1943

12-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is charged with burglary and committed to the Lyman School for Boys in Lyman School for Boys, Lyman School Road, Westborough, Massachusetts, United States.


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71 years ago

Saturday 29th of December 1945

Augusta Gein dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son 39-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.


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70 years ago

Sunday 29th of December 1946

Singer-songwriter Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is born in Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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59 years ago

Sunday 29th of December 1957

The skeletonised remains of 19-year-old Victim of Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer Judy Ann Dull, originally Judith Ann Van Horn Dull are found in a shallow grave in Thousand Palms, Indio, California, United States.

Dull was abducted, raped and strangled on 1 August 1957. Glatman took several photos before and after the murder.


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54 years ago

Saturday 29th of December 1962

Serial killer Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky aka The Hippopotamus aka The Balashikha Ripper is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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44 years ago

Friday 29th of December 1972

101 die in Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar Flight 401 crash in Area 3A, The Everglades, Florida, United States.

The crash occurred as a result of the entire flight crew becoming preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light and failing to notice the autopilot had inadvertently been disconnected. 75 people survived.


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30 years ago

Monday 29th of December 1986

Film director Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky dies of lung cancer at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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21 years ago

Friday 29th of December 1995

Actress Lita Grey, originally Lillita Louise MacMurray dies of cancer at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, United States.



17 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 29th of December 1999

Late night dinner at my favourite foodstall at the busstop in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.


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15 years ago

Saturday 29th of December 2001

291 die in Mesa Redonda shopping center fire in Mesa Redonda, Lima, Lima Metropolitana, Peru.

The fire started when a fireworks display created a chain reaction, setting off the fireworks of other nearby vendors. The aftermath created a "wall of fire" that spread for four blocks and raged for several hours.