31st year - N° 364 Thursday, 29 December 2016

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31st year - N° 364 Thursday, 29 December 2016

29 December / Today's 23 Events:

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(+) 295 years ago Monday 29th of December 1721 Courtisane and official chief mistress of King Louis XV Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson aka Madame de Pompadour is born in Rue de Cléry, IIe, Paris, Île-de-France, Belgium.

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(+) 216 years ago Monday 29th of December 1800 Engineer and chemist Charles Goodyear is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 208 years ago Thursday 29th of December 1808 17th President of the United States Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 182 years ago Monday 29th of December 1834 Poet Charlotte Stieglitz commits suicide by driving a dagger through her heart at the age of 28 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 140 years ago Friday 29th of December 1876 92 die in Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Pacific Express Train n° 5 derailment in Ashtabula River Bridge, Edgewood, Ohio, United States. The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The survivors were led, carried and conveyed on sleds to hotels and private houses in the town, there being no hospital. However, people assisting also stole money and valuables from the survivors and dead, $1500 (about $33000 today). Bridge designer Amasa Stone committed suicide seven years later after experiencing financial difficulties with some foundries he had interests in, suffering from severe ulcers that kept him from sleeping and scorn from the public over the disaster.

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(x) 126 years ago Monday 29th of December 1890 Between 175 and 300 Lakota Indians are massacred by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside in Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, United States.

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(+) 95 years ago Thursday 29th of December 1921 Founder of the Solar Lodge secret society Georgina Jean Brayton aka Soror Capricornus is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 93 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1923 Presumed murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 93 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1923 Victim of Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Merle Collison is born in Great Falls, Montana, United States.

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(-) 90 years ago Wednesday 29th of December 1926 Poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, originally René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Clinique de Valmont, Route de Valmont, Glion sur Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland. Rilke suffered ulcerous sores in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines and he struggled with increasingly low spirits.

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(+) 83 years ago Friday 29th of December 1933 Quaker and anti-war protester Norman Morrison is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 80 years ago Tuesday 29th of December 1936 Actress Mary Tyler Moore known from The Mary Tyler Moore Show is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 78 years ago Thursday 29th of December 1938 Actor Jon Jonathan Vincent Voight is born in Yonkers, New York, United States.

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(x) 73 years ago Wednesday 29th of December 1943 12-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is charged with burglary and committed to the Lyman School for Boys in Lyman School for Boys, Lyman School Road, Westborough, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 71 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1945 Augusta Gein dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son 39-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 70 years ago Sunday 29th of December 1946 Singer-songwriter Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is born in Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 59 years ago Sunday 29th of December 1957 The skeletonised remains of 19-year-old Victim of Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer Judy Ann Dull, originally Judith Ann Van Horn Dull are found in a shallow grave in Thousand Palms, Indio, California, United States. Dull was abducted, raped and strangled on 1 August 1957. Glatman took several photos before and after the murder.

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(+) 54 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1962 Serial killer Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky aka The Hippopotamus aka The Balashikha Ripper is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 29th of December 1972 101 die in Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar Flight 401 crash in Area 3A, The Everglades, Florida, United States. The crash occurred as a result of the entire flight crew becoming preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light and failing to notice the autopilot had inadvertently been disconnected. 75 people survived.

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(-) 30 years ago Monday 29th of December 1986 Film director Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky dies of lung cancer at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 21 years ago Friday 29th of December 1995 Actress Lita Grey, originally Lillita Louise MacMurray dies of cancer at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 29th of December 1999 Late night dinner at my favourite foodstall at the busstop in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 15 years ago Saturday 29th of December 2001 291 die in Mesa Redonda shopping center fire in Mesa Redonda, Lima, Lima Metropolitana, Peru. The fire started when a fireworks display created a chain reaction, setting off the fireworks of other nearby vendors. The aftermath created a "wall of fire" that spread for four blocks and raged for several hours.

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