31st year - N° 363 Wednesday, 28 December 2016

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31st year - N° 363 Wednesday, 28 December 2016

28 December / Today's 16 Events:

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(+) 175 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1841 Murderess Anna Månsdotter aka The Yngsjö Murderess is born in Yngsjö, Skåne, Sweden.

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(+) 160 years ago Sunday 28th of December 1856 28th President of the United States Woodrow Thomas Wilson is born in 18–24 North Coalter Street, Staunton, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 131 years ago Monday 28th of December 1885 Artist Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin is born in Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 128 years ago Friday 28th of December 1888 Expressionist film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, originally Plumpe known for Nosferatu is born in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 92 years ago Sunday 28th of December 1924 Victim of James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer Michael Gregsten is born in Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 91 years ago Monday 28th of December 1925 Actress and singer Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 85 years ago Monday 28th of December 1931 Theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International Guy Ernest Debord is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 82 years ago Friday 28th of December 1934 X-rays of the pelvic region of 64-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac reveal 27 needles scattered thoughout the area of his groin and lower abdomen in Grasslands Hospital, 100 Woods Road, Valhalla, New York, United States. Fish began to indulge in self-harm since his wife left him for John Straube in January 1917.

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(+) 80 years ago Monday 28th of December 1936 Gangster Jacques René Mesrine aka Public Enemy No. 1 is born in 5 Avenue Anatole-France, Clichy-la-Garenne, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 44 years ago Thursday 28th of December 1972 The skeleton of 72-year-old Nazi official and private secretary to Adolf Hitler Martin Bormann is found during construction works in Lehrter Bahnhof, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Bormann committed suicide on 2 May 1945.

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(x) 37 years ago Friday 28th of December 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Death-Interruption - 1' with Frank De Busscher in Ruimte Z, Lovelingstraat 56, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Inside, the space was lit by 100 burning candles. Through the window you could see the tied up bodies of me and Frank Debusschere, a pointed wooden stick placed between their bodies and the door. It took four hours, until all the candles were burned up. Johan Desmet made music with tapes and found footage sounds.

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(x) 34 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1982 The body of 21-year-old Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer John Lee Roach is found in State Road 243 exit, Putnamville, Indiana, United States. Roach was stabbed to death.

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(x) 34 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1982 Trevor Simpson is attacked by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 29 years ago Monday 28th of December 1987 47-year-old Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons drives into town and shoots several people in different offices before surrendering without resistance to the police in Russelville, Arkansas, United States. Simmons walked into a law office and killed 24-year-old receptionist Kathy Kendrick; he had been infatuated with her, but she had rejected him. He next went to an oil company office where he shot dead 33-year-old J.D. Chaffin and wounded owner Rusty Taylor. Simmons then drove on to a convenience store where he had previously worked, shooting and wounding two more people. Afterwards he went to the office of the Woodline Motor Freight Company where he shot and wounded a wo man. Simmons then simply sat in the office and chatted with one of the secretaries while waiting for the police. In the week before Simmons killed 14 members of his family in two events.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 28th of December 1999 A strange staring character on my daily ride home with the last bus n° 123 from Thanon Maharat via Sanam Luang in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 14 years ago Saturday 28th of December 2002 43-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Parels voor de Zwijnen' in Vermeersch Pig Farm, Zedelgemsesteenweg 64, Eernegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. A handful spectators was led along a muddy path in the dark towards a pig stye where they can enter one by one. The pig stye is divided in partitions that hold seven pigs each, totalling about 100 pigs. At the end of the small corridor that leads through the middle of the stye a film is projected onto my naked body. From several incisions in my body blood is seeping. I hung there for about half an hour. The pigs got excited by the smell of people and blood.

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