31st year - N° 357 Thursday, 22 December 2016

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31st year - N° 357 Thursday, 22 December 2016

22 December / Today's 28 Events:

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(+) 377 years ago Thursday 22nd of December 1639 Dramatist Jean Baptiste Racine is born in La Ferté-Milon, Picardie, France.

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(+) 158 years ago Wednesday 22nd of December 1858 Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini is born in Corte San Lorenzo 9, Lucca, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 140 years ago Friday 22nd of December 1876 Founder of the Futurist movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, originally Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti is born in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.

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(+) 133 years ago Saturday 22nd of December 1883 Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse aka The Stratospheric Colossus of Sound is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 124 years ago Thursday 22nd of December 1892 Mistress of Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais Fernande Ernestine Marcelline Segret is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 92 years ago Monday 22nd of December 1924 Serial killer and cannibal Karl Denke aka Papa Denke commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 64 in Münsterberg, Niederschlesien, Germany. Denke was arrested after attacking Vincenz Oliver with a hackblade during dinner. When police searched his house at Teichstraße 10, they found drums with salted meat and written notes about 20 years of murder and cannibalism.

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(+) 80 years ago Tuesday 22nd of December 1936 Victim of The Manson Family Wojciech Frykowski is born in Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland.

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(x) 77 years ago Friday 22nd of December 1939 186 die in D-Zug D 10 and D 180 collision in Bahnhof, Genthin, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(+) 70 years ago Sunday 22nd of December 1946 Wife of Jim Morrison Pamela Susan Courson is born in Weed, California, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Sunday 22nd of December 1963 128 die in TSMS Lakonia cruise-liner fire and sinking in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Lakonia departed Southampton on 19 December 1963 for an 11-day 'Christmas Cruise' of the Canary Islands.

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(-) 50 years ago Thursday 22nd of December 1966 Ilona Harke is sexually assaulted and drowned by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Feldbachtal, Hückeswagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Harke disappeared in Wuppertal and was found four days later.

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(-) 47 years ago Monday 22nd of December 1969 Film director Josef von Sternberg, originally Jonas Sternberg dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Hollywood, California, United States.

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(-) 45 years ago Wednesday 22nd of December 1971 Ida Van Isacker-Smeets is raped, tortured and strangled by serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Dijleoever, Hanswijk, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Van Eyken wanted to rape Van Isacker but he couldn't so he strangled her. Then he went home to eat. Upon returning to finally rape her she was still alive. Van Eyken mutilated and strangled her again.

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(x) 45 years ago Wednesday 22nd of December 1971 66-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess is released on parole after 39 years imprisonment in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 22nd of December 1972 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D Flight 571 plane crash are found in the Andes || Glaciar de las Lágrimas, the Andes. They fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow after their plane crashed on 13 October 1972.

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(+) 44 years ago Friday 22nd of December 1972 Singer, model and actress Vanessa Chantal Paradis is born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 41 years ago Monday 22nd of December 1975 Suzanne Bach is attacked by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer in Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bach survived.

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(x) 38 years ago Friday 22nd of December 1978 36-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is placed under arrest as a suspect in the abduction of Robert Piest in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 38 years ago Friday 22nd of December 1978 Start of the excavations in the house of 36-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Between 22 and 29 December, 27 bodies were recovered from Gacy's property, 26 of which were found buried in his crawl space, with one additional victim, John Butkovitch, being found buried beneath the concrete floor of his garage precisely where Gacy had marked the youth's grave with a can of spray paint.

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(x) 32 years ago Saturday 22nd of December 1984 37-year-old Bernhard Hugo Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante shoots 19-year-old Troy Canty, 19-year-old Darrel Cabey, 19-year-old Barry Allen and 18-year-old Jimmy Ramseur who attempted to rob him in the Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line express subway train in IRT 14th Street Station, New York, New York, United States. On 31 December 1984 Goetz walked into the Concord, New Hampshire police headquarters and told the officer on duty "I am the person they are seeking in New York." At the civil trial years later Goetz said "I was trying to get as many of them as I could."

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(+) 30 years ago Monday 22nd of December 1986 Terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber is born in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria.

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(x) 29 years ago Tuesday 22nd of December 1987 47-year-old Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons kills his 46-year-old wife Rebecca, his children, 29-year-old Gene, 17-year-old Loretta, 14-year-old Eddy, 11-year-old Marianne and 8-year-old Rebecca Becky, and his granddaughter (or daughter) 3-year-old Barbara by shooting, strangling and drowning in Mockingbird Hill, Dover, Arkansas, United States. Four days later Simmons killed another seven members of his family.

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(-) 27 years ago Friday 22nd of December 1989 Writer and playwright Samuel Barclay Beckett known for Waiting for Godot dies of respiratory failure at the age of 83 in Résidence Tiers Temps, 24 Rue Rémy Dumoncel, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 24 years ago Tuesday 22nd of December 1992 157 die in Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727-2L5 Flight 1103 and a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 mid-air collision in Tripoli International Airport, Tripoli, Greater Tripoli, Libya.

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(-) 20 years ago Sunday 22nd of December 1996 Jacqueline Leclercq is abducted, killed and cut to pieces by unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Rue Malapert, Hyon, Hainaut, Belgium. On 22 March 1997 several parts of Leclercq's body were found in trash bags in Cuesmes.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 22nd of December 1999 The clerk at the post-office across the Royal Palace who at first refused to gave me a postbox address but completely changed his mind when I came back with Sutee and gave me one at the office in Banglamphu in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 9 years ago Saturday 22nd of December 2007 61-year-old Serial killer Peter William Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper is stabbed in the face by fellow inmate Patrick Sureda with a metal cutlery knife while shouting "You fucking raping, murdering bastard, I'll blind your fucking other one" in Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Sutcliffe, already blind in one eye after a previous attack, flung himself backwards and the blade missed his right eye, instead stabbing him in the cheek.

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(-) 2 years ago Monday 22nd of December 2014 Singer and musician Joe John Robert Cocker dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Crawford, Colorado, United States.

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