31st year - N° 337 Friday, 2 December 2016

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31st year - N° 337 Friday, 2 December 2016

2 December / Today's 17 Events:

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(x) 212 years ago Sunday 2nd of December 1804 35-year-old War leader Napoléon Bonaparte, originally Napoleone di Buonaparte is crowned as King of France in IVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 202 years ago Friday 2nd of December 1814 Revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer Donatien Alphonse François de Sade aka Marquis de Sade dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 74 in Hôpital Esquirol, Saint-Maurice, Charenton, Val-de-Marne, France. Sade had left instructions in his will forbidding that his body be opened for any reason whatsoever and that it remain untouched for 48 hours in the chamber in which he died, and then placed in a coffin and buried on his property located in Malmaison near Épernon.

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(+) 157 years ago Friday 2nd of December 1859 Painter Georges Pierre Seurat is born in 60 Rue de Bondy, Xe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 125 years ago Wednesday 2nd of December 1891 Painter and printmaker Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Dix is born in Gera, Thüringen, Germany.

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(+) 93 years ago Sunday 2nd of December 1923 Soprano Maria Callas, originally Mengeghini-Calogeropoulou aka La Divina is born in Flower Hospital, 1249 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 78 years ago Friday 2nd of December 1938 Multiple murderer Albert Kessel is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 28 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. Kessel was with Robert Cannon the first man to die in the Gas Chamber. Kessel's death took 15 and a half minutes.

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(-) 78 years ago Friday 2nd of December 1938 Multiple murderer Robert Lee Cannon is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 29 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. Cannon was with Albert Kessel the first man to die in the Gas Chamber. Cannon's death took 12 minutes.

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(-) 72 years ago Saturday 2nd of December 1944 Founder of the Futurist movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, originally Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 68 in Hotel Excelsior, Via Lungo Lario Manzoni 28, Bellagio, Lombardia, Italy. Marinetti was in his office working on a collection of poems praising the wartime achievements of the Decima Flottiglia MAS.

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(+) 70 years ago Monday 2nd of December 1946 Leading member of the 'Manson Family' Tex Charles Watson is born in Copeville, Texas, United States.

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(+) 70 years ago Monday 2nd of December 1946 Fashion designer Gianni Giovanni Maria Versace is born in Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy.

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(x) 60 years ago Sunday 2nd of December 1956 53-year-old Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber plants a bomb, leaving six of the theater's 1.500 occupants injured in Paramount Theatre, intersection of Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. The next day Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy ordered what he called the "greatest manhunt in the history of the Police Department."

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(+) 60 years ago Sunday 2nd of December 1956 Serial killer David Edwin Mason is born in Statesboro, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 40 years ago Thursday 2nd of December 1976 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Konerak Sinthasomphone is born in Vientiane, Vientiane Province, Laos.

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(+) 35 years ago Wednesday 2nd of December 1981 Singer Britney Jean Spears is born in McComb, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 34 years ago Thursday 2nd of December 1982 Comedian and actor Marty Martin Alan Feldman dies of a heart attack at the age of 48 in Hotel Camino Real, Mariano Escobedo 700, Mexico City, Mexico. On the day before Feldman and Michael Mileham had swam to a small island in a lake in Mexico City where a local was selling lobster and coconuts. Mileham claimed he got shellfish poisoning which also caused Feldman's death. Mel Brooks added that "smoking sometimes 5 packs of cigarettes daily, drinking copious amounts of black coffee, and a diet rich in eggs and dairy products" may have contributed to Feldman's death.

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(x) 33 years ago Friday 2nd of December 1983 42-year-old Serial killer Marcel Henri Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre is again sentenced to life-imprisonment after his first sentence was quashed in Cour d'Assises d'Oise, 20 Boulevard Saint-Jean, Beauvais, Oise, France.

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(-) 26 years ago Sunday 2nd of December 1990 Composer Aaron Copland dies of Alzheimer's disease and respiratory failure at the age of 90 in North Tarrytown, New York, United States.

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