32nd year - N° 308 Saturday, 4 November 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 308 Saturday, 4 November 2017

4 November / Today's 16 Events:

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(+) 101 years ago It Was the Way it Was Saturday 4th of November 1916 CBS anchorman Walter Leland Cronkite aka The Most Trusted Man in America is born in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 80 years ago Thursday 4th of November 1937 Actress Loretta Jane Swit known for her portrayal of Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan on M*A*S*H is born in Passaic, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 71 years ago Monday 4th of November 1946 Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is born in Floral Park, Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago Friday 4th of November 1955 Criminologist August Vollmer aka Gus commits suicide due to suffering of cancer and Parkinson's Disease at the age of 77 in Berkeley, California, United States.

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(+) 61 years ago Sunday 4th of November 1956 Playboy John Paul Getty is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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(+) 52 years ago Thursday 4th of November 1965 Serial killer Henry Louis Wallace aka The Taco Bell Strangler is born in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Saturday 4th of November 1978 Frank Wayne 'Dale' Landingin is strangled by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Landingin's body was found in the Des Plaines River. Investigators found Landingin's driver's license in Gacy's home.

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(x) 38 years ago Sunday 4th of November 1979 52 Americans are held hostage for 444 days in US Embassy, Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

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(x) 34 years ago Friday 4th of November 1983 38-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company starts his life sentence as 'Prisoner B62006' in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Nilsen's current Prisoner number is A6191AC.

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(x) 32 years ago Monday 4th of November 1985 Twenty-first bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Cours Saint-Michel 60, Etterbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. It was the third action in their 'Campagne Karl Marx'.

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(x) 32 years ago Monday 4th of November 1985 Twenty-second bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Société Générale de Banque, Boulevard Joseph Tirou 53, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium. It was the fourth action in their 'Campagne Karl Marx'.

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(-) 29 years ago Friday 4th of November 1988 The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater dies of old age at the age of 117 in Maryland Manor, Glen Burnie, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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(-) 22 years ago Saturday 4th of November 1995 Philosopher Gilles Deleuze commits suicide jumping from the window of his apartment at the age of 70 in 84 Avenue Niel, XVIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Deleuze had been tied to a respirating machine for one and a half year since one of his lungs collapsed.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 4th of November 2002 Nothing but a shadow on the floor in Vlemincktoren, Turnhoutsebaan 381, Wijnegem, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 4th of November 2005 Many hands make the work light, as explained by the keeper as he had to shorten six metal poles for the open-air slaughterhouse construction in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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(-) 12 years ago Friday 4th of November 2005 Mass murderer Hastings Arthur Wise is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Broad River Correctional Institution, Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Wise's last meal request was for lobster back, french fries, coleslaw, banana pudding and milk.

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