31st year - N° 351 Friday, 16 December 2016

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31st year - N° 351 Friday, 16 December 2016

16 December / Today's 19 Events:

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(+) 531 years ago Wednesday 16th of December 1485 Princess of Wales and first wife of Henry VIII Catalina de Aragón is born in Palacio Arzobispal, Alcalá de Henares, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

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(+) 246 years ago Sunday 16th of December 1770 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonngasse 20, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 241 years ago Saturday 16th of December 1775 Writer Jane Austen is born in Steventon, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 226 years ago Thursday 16th of December 1790 1st King of Belgium Leopold I, originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld is born in Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 150 years ago Kam der Blaue Reiter Sunday 16th of December 1866 Painter and art theorist Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 117 years ago Saturday 16th of December 1899 Playwright, director, actor and singer Noël Peirce Coward is born in Teddington, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 115 years ago Monday 16th of December 1901 Anthropologist Margaret Mead is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 112 years ago Friday 16th of December 1904 Widow Gladys Cochcrane dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Falkirk, Rosehall, Scotland, United Kingdom. Cochrane was found burned beyond recognition in her bedroom sitting in a chair surrounded by pillows and cushions which were not burned. Cochrane had not cried out and there was no fire in her grate.

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(+) 99 years ago Sunday 16th of December 1917 Science fiction writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television series host Arthur C. Charles Clarke known for 2001: A Space Odyssey is born in Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom.

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(+) 88 years ago Sunday 16th of December 1928 Science fiction writer Philip K. Kindred Dick known for his novel Blade Runner is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Dick and his twin sister Jane Charlotte were born six weeks prematurely. The death of Jane on 26 January 1929, profoundly affected Philip's life, leading to the recurrent motif of the 'phantom twin' in his books.

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(+) 78 years ago Friday 16th of December 1938 Actress Liv Johanne Ullmann is born in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(x) 72 years ago Saturday 16th of December 1944 567 die in Cinema Rex explosion in Cinema Rex, De Keyserlei 15, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. The building was caught in a full hit by a V2 during the showing of Cecil B DeMille's 'The Plainsman' starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.

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(+) 60 years ago Sunday 16th of December 1956 Musician Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 56 years ago Friday 16th of December 1960 134 die in United Airlines Douglas DC-8-11 Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Flight 266 collision in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. The only initial survivor of the tragedy was 11-year-old Stephen Lambert Baltz, but he died of pneumonia the next day.

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(x) 48 years ago Monday 16th of December 1968 43-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion / Das Böse / Tv–film für den WDR' in Praterstraße 32, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 46 years ago Wednesday 16th of December 1970 16-year-old Multiple murderer Frank Alexander is found beating his 39-year-old mother Dagmar and his 18-year-old and 15-year-old sisters Marina and Petra to death in Flat 1d, 37 Calle Jesús Nazareno, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. Alexander had also been tearing out their hearts and cutting away their sex organs and nailing them to the walls of the flat while his father Harald played the organ in a presumer 'Lorberbewegung' ritual. Petra's twin sister Sabina managed to escape. In the subsequent trial the young Alexander stated "I saw that mom was looking at me, I felt I was not allowed that she looked at me that wa y."

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(x) 46 years ago Wednesday 16th of December 1970 45-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Weihnacht 70' in Aktionsgalerie Rudolf Jäggli, Uferweg 42, Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(x) 31 years ago Monday 16th of December 1985 The four only members, 33-year old Pierre Carette, 30-year-old Didier Chevolet, 28-year-old Pascale Vandegeerde and 23-year-old Bertrand Sassoye of Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC are arrested in Quick restaurant, Avenue de la Gare 7, Namur, Namur, Belgium.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 16th of December 2004 Musician Jeroen Stevens at a Catholic performance in a record shop (that still owes us about 1.000,- € from cd-sales) in Freaks end Future, Prinsstraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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