31st year - N° 320 Tuesday, 15 November 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 320 Tuesday, 15 November 2016

15 November / Today's 20 Events:

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(+) 152 years ago Tuesday 15th of November 1864 Murderer John Henry George Lee aka Babbacombe Lee aka The Man They Couldn't Hang is born in Abbotskerswell, Devon, United Kingdom.

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(+) 129 years ago Tuesday 15th of November 1887 Painter Georgia O'Keeffe aka The Mother of American Modernism is born in 2405 Hwy T, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 125 years ago He Was a Small Fox Sunday 15th of November 1891 Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel aka Wüstenfuchs is born in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 124 years ago Tuesday 15th of November 1892 Serial killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The executioner, James Billington, claimed that Cream's last words on the scaffold were "I am Jack The..." However records show that Cream was in prison at the time of the last three Ripper murders in 1888.

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(+) 109 years ago Friday 15th of November 1907 Would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler Claus Philipp Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg is born in Schloss Jettingen, Jettingen, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 88 years ago Thursday 15th of November 1928 Serial killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago Saturday 15th of November 1930 Writer James Graham Ballard is born in Shanghai International Settlement, Shanghai, China.

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(+) 84 years ago Tuesday 15th of November 1932 Singer and actress Petula Sally Olwen Clark is born in Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 80 years ago Sunday 15th of November 1936 Singer-songwriter Wolf Karl Biermann is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(+) 73 years ago He Was the Prophet Monday 15th of November 1943 Founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Donald David DeFreeze aka Field Marshal Cinque Mtume is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago Tuesday 15th of November 1949 Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi Nathuram Vinayak Godse is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Ambala, Haryana, India. Godse was hanged along with 39-year-old co-conspirator Narayan Apte.

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(+) 60 years ago He Was Delivered Thursday 15th of November 1956 Pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells aka The Human Pizza Delivery Bomb is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 58 years ago Saturday 15th of November 1958 Actor Tyrone Edmund Power dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain. Power was stricken with a massive heart attack while filming a dueling scene for the epic 'Solomon and Sheba' by King Vidor with his frequent co-star and friend George Sanders. Power died en route to the hospital.

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(-) 56 years ago Tuesday 15th of November 1960 Mass murderer Robert Raymond Cook is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Alberta Provincial Gaol, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. Cook shot and bludgeoned to death seven member of his family; 53-year-old Raymond Cook, his 37-year-old wife Daisy Mae, 9-year-old Gerald, 8-year-old Patrick, 7-year-old Christopher, 5-year-old Kathy, and 3-year-old Linda Mae.

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(-) 40 years ago Monday 15th of November 1976 Actor Jean Gabin, originally Jean-Alexis Moncorgé dies of leukemia at the age of 72 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 38 years ago Wednesday 15th of November 1978 Mass murderer Nordine Amrani is born in Ixelles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 31 years ago Friday 15th of November 1985 Surrealist artist Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland.

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(-) 18 years ago Sunday 15th of November 1998 Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture dies of prostate cancer at the age of 57 in Conakry, Guinea. Carmichael said that his cancer "was given to me by forces of American imperialism and others who conspired with them." He claimed that the FBI had infected him with cancer in an assassination attempt.

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(-) 14 years ago Friday 15th of November 2002 Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) dies of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 60 in West Suffolk Hospital, Hardwick Lane, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. Four months later Hindley's ashes were scattered by her former lover and Carmelite nun Patricia 'Pat' Cairns, a woman she had met in prison, in Stalybridge Country Park. Cairns stood trial at the Old Bailey in 1974 on a charge of conspiring to spring Hindley from Holloway Prison.

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(-) 6 years ago Monday 15th of November 2010 Pop star Wang Bei dies while having facial bone-grinding surgery "to make her jaw line fashionably narrow and her face smaller" at the age of 24 in Wuhan, Hebei, China. The doctor in Zhong'ao Cosmetic Surgery Hospital sliced a blood vessel and couldn't stop the bleeding, the blood from Wang's jaw drained into her windpipe and she suffocated.

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