31st year - N° 336 Thursday, 1 December 2016

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31st year - N° 336 Thursday, 1 December 2016

1 December / Today's 17 Events:

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(-) 495 years ago Thursday 1st of December 1521 217th Pope Leo X, originally Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici dies of bronchopneumonia at the age of 46 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 255 years ago Tuesday 1st of December 1761 Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud, originally Anne-Marie Grosholtz is born in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.

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(-) 150 years ago Saturday 1st of December 1866 Surveyor and geographer George Everest dies of natural causes at the age of 76 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 81 years ago Sunday 1st of December 1935 Actor and film director Woody Heywood Allen, originally Allan Stewart Konigsberg is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 74 years ago Tuesday 1st of December 1942 The first transport of jews arrives in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, Birkenau, Małopolska, Poland.

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(+) 71 years ago Saturday 1st of December 1945 Singer-songwriter and actress Bette Midler aka The Divine Miss M is born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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(-) 69 years ago Monday 1st of December 1947 Occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter and mountaineer Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast dies of chronic bronchitis aggravated by pleurisy and myocardial degeneration at the age of 72 in Netherwood boarding house, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 67 years ago Thursday 1st of December 1949 Drug lord Pablo Emilio Gaviria Escobar is born in Rionegro, Oriente Antioqueño, Colombia.

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(x) 58 years ago Monday 1st of December 1958 95 children die in Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Our Lady of the Angels School, 909 North Avers Avenue, Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States. A 10-year-old fifth grader at the time of the fire confessed in 1962 to setting the blaze and subsequently recanted his confession.

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(+) 55 years ago Friday 1st of December 1961 Murderer and cannibal Armin Meiwes aka Der Metzgermeister is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 51 years ago Wednesday 1st of December 1965 The death sentence of 19-year-old Serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank is commuted to life imprisonment in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 42 years ago Sunday 1st of December 1974 92 die in Trans World Airlines Boeing 727-231 Flight 514 crash in Mount Weather, Virginia, United States.

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(x) 35 years ago Tuesday 1st of December 1981 180 die in Inex-Adria Aviopromet McDonnell Douglas MD-81 Flight 1308 crash in Mont San-Pietro, Ajaccio, Corsica, France.

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(-) 29 years ago Tuesday 1st of December 1987 North Korean Agent Seung Il Kim aka Shinichi Hachiya commits suicide by cyanide poisoning at the age of 69 in Bahrein International Airport, Muharraq, Bahrein. He was responsible for the Korean Air Boeing 707-3B5C Flight 858 bombing on 29 November 1987.

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(x) 29 years ago Tuesday 1st of December 1987 24-year-old Serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune is arrested in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. He was recognised by a policeman who remembered his description from one of his latest victims.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 1st of December 2005 Jean-Marie Berckmans performing in Scheld'apen, D'Herbouvillekaai 36, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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6 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 1st of December 2010 Edelweiß flowers spring through the snow on our rooftop rock garden in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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