31st year - N° 333 Monday, 28 November 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 333 Monday, 28 November 2016

28 November / Today's 19 Events:

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(+) 259 years ago Monday 28th of November 1757 Poet and painter William Blake is born in 28 Broad Street, Soho, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 196 years ago Tuesday 28th of November 1820 Philosopher Friedrich Engels is born in Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 135 years ago Monday 28th of November 1881 Writer Stefan Zweig is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 109 years ago Thursday 28th of November 1907 Writer Alberto Moravia, originally Alberto Pincherle aka Il Conformista is born in Via Giovanni Sgambati, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 108 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1908 Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss is born in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 74 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1942 Murderess Toni Jo Henry, originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Lake Charles Parish jail, 5410 Broad Street, Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. During the time Henry was being tried Louisiana changed its method of execution from hanging to death by electrocution. Henry was executed within the basement of the Lake Charles Prison in Louisiana's portable electric chair which had been brought by truck from Angola the previous day. Henry was the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair.

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(x) 74 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1942 492 die in Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Cocoanut Grove, 17 Piedmont Street, Bay Village, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago He Was Short People Sunday 28th of November 1943 Singer-songwriter Randy Randall Stuart Newman is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 58 years ago Friday 28th of November 1958 19-year-old Triple murderer Lowell Lee Andrews aka The Nicest Boy in Wolcott shoots his 50-year-old father William, 41-year-old mother Opal and 20-year old sister Jennie Marie in Wolcott, Kansas, United States. He wanted to become a 'hired gun' and inherit the family property.

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(+) 53 years ago Thursday 28th of November 1963 Serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune is born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, France.

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(x) 46 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1970 45-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion Mit Einer Gans' in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 44 years ago Tuesday 28th of November 1972 Murderer Claude Buffet is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 39 in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France. His last words were "Au revoir et à tout à l'heure".

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(-) 44 years ago Tuesday 28th of November 1972 Criminal Roger Bontems is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 36 in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France. With the execution of Claude Buffet, seven minutes after Bontems, these were the last executions in Paris.

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(x) 40 years ago Sunday 28th of November 1976 44-year-old Harry De La Roche Sr., 51-year-old Mary Jane, 15-year-old Ronald and 12-year-old Eric are bludgeoned and shot dead by 18-year-old Mass murderer Harry William Frederick De La Roche jr. in 23 East Grand Avenue, Montvale, New Jersey, United States. The thought of going back to 'The Citadel', a military academy, drove De La Roche jr. "mad".

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(x) 37 years ago Wednesday 28th of November 1979 257 die in Air New Zealand McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 Flight 901 crash in Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Ross Archipelago, Antarctica. The flight was designed and marketed as a unique sightseeing experience, carrying an experienced Antarctic guide who pointed out scenic features and landmarks using the aircraft public-address system, while passengers enjoyed a low-flying sweep of McMurdo Sound. The flights left and returned to New Zealand the same day.

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(x) 36 years ago Friday 28th of November 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Hear/See' at Mixage Festival in De Beyerd, Boschstraat, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. I was tied to a table which I could turn over 360° by my own power. In the room next door where the public was slides of industrial landscapes were shown. The door between the two rooms was continuously opened and slammed back so only a few people could have a glance at the performance inside each time. When the door was closed you could hear loud monotone music when it was open you didn't hear anything.

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(x) 29 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1987 159 die in South African Airways Boeing 747-244M Flight 295 crash in the Indian Ocean.

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(-) 22 years ago Monday 28th of November 1994 Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal is beaten to death with a bar from the weight room by 25-year-old fellow-inmate Christopher Scarver while cleaning the toilets and showers in the maximum security jail at the age of 34 in Columbia Correctional Institution, 2925 Columbia Drive, Portage, Wisconsin, United States. In the same event 37-year-old murderer Jesse Anderson was also beaten and died two days later when doctors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison removed him from life support..

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 28th of November 2007 Complex plumbing in our refurbished bathroom in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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