31st year - N° 350 Thursday, 15 December 2016

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31st year - N° 350 Thursday, 15 December 2016

15 December / Today's 16 Events:

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(+) 1979 years ago Tuesday 15th of December 0037 5th Emperor of the Roman Empire Nero, originally Nerō Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus is born in Antium, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 184 years ago Saturday 15th of December 1832 Engineer and architect Gustave Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel is born in Dijon, Bourgogne, France.

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(x) 161 years ago Saturday 15th of December 1855 31-year-old Serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners is arrested and charged with the poisoning of John Parsons Cook in Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. When detained at Stafford Gaol Palmer threatened to go on hunger strike but backed down when the governor informed him that this would lead to him being force fed.

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(+) 124 years ago Thursday 15th of December 1892 Industrialist Jean Paul Getty aka The Richest Living American is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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(+) 95 years ago Thursday 15th of December 1921 Disc jockey and radio presenter Alan Albert James Freed aka Moondog known for naming Rock and Roll is born in Windber, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 95 years ago Thursday 15th of December 1921 24-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer graduates from the university as a doctor of medicine with the tract 'Contributions to the study of Acute Progressive Paralysis' in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Acute Progressive Paralysis was a disease Henri Desiré Landru was suffering from.

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(+) 86 years ago Monday 15th of December 1930 Victim of The Manson Family Rosemary LaBianca, originally Ruth Katherine Elliott is born in Mexico. At age 8 Ruth Kathyrn Elliott was adopted by the Harmons in Fullerton who had lost their own daughter to disease. The Harmons renamed her after their deceased daughter and thus Ruth became Rosemary.

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(x) 86 years ago Monday 15th of December 1930 60-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is committed to the Bellevue Hospital for a 10-day observation after sending obscenities through the mail in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago Wednesday 15th of December 1954 Murderess Styllou Pantopiou Christofi is executed by hanging at the age of 54 in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 55 years ago Friday 15th of December 1961 55-year-old SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Otto Eichmann known for organising the Holocaust is sentenced to death in Jerusalem District Court, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

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(x) 50 years ago Thursday 15th of December 1966 Film director and animator Walt Walter Elias Disney dies of acute circulatory collapse caused by lung cancer at the age of 65 in Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, California, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago Friday 15th of December 1967 21-year-old Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder is sentenced to life imprisonment in Landgericht Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 46 years ago Tuesday 15th of December 1970 323 die in Namyong Ho ferry capsizing in the Korea Strait. Only 12 people survived.

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(x) 45 years ago Wednesday 15th of December 1971 28-year-old Serial killer Manfred Wittmann aka The Beast of Oberfranken is sentenced to three life sentences in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 45 years ago Wednesday 15th of December 1971 25-year-old Mass murderer John Linley Frazier aka The Killer Prophet is convicted to die in the Gas Chamber in Santa Cruz, California, United States. On the first day of the trial Frazier appeared in court with a new look representing the two sides of a hippie. One side had long hair and a long beard and the other side was totally bald with no beard.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 15th of December 1999 A sturdy Landrover series III 109" in the courtyard in Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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