Friday, November 24, 2017

32nd year - N° 328 Friday, 24 November 2017

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32nd year - N° 328 Friday, 24 November 2017

24 November / Today's 25 Events:
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385 years ago

Wednesday 24th of November 1632

Philosopher Baruch Spinoza, originally Benedito de Espinosa is born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.


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277 years ago

Thursday 24th of November 1740

Rapist and murderer William Duell is executed by hanging at the age of 17 in Tyburn Tree, Tyburn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Duell's body hung for about 20 minutes before being cut down. It was then brought to the Surgeon's Hall to be anatomized for a medical training college, a common practice at the time. Duell was stripped and laid on the board about to be dissected when one of the servants noticed that he had begun breathing slowly. Duell's breath got quicker and quicker; he was then bled, and in two hours, he was able to sit upright. That night, he was taken back to Newgate Prison. Duell, suffering from a fever and delirium during his trial and execution, had no recol lection of the hanging.


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233 years ago

Wednesday 24th of November 1784

12th President of the United States Zachary Taylor is born in Barboursville, Virginia, United States.


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153 years ago

Thursday 24th of November 1864

Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, originally Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa is born in Château du Bosc, Camjac, Midi-Pyrénées, France.


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147 years ago

Thursday 24th of November 1870

Poet Isidore Ducasse de Lautréamont, originally Isidore-Lucien Ducasse known for Les Chants de Maldoror dies of fever at the age of 24 in 7 Rue de Faubourg-Montmartre, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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133 years ago

Monday 24th of November 1884

Murderer Kay Howarth is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.


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133 years ago

Monday 24th of November 1884

Murderer Harry Swindells is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.


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120 years ago

Wednesday 24th of November 1897

Mobster and father of modern organized crime in the United States Charles Luciano, originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano is born in Lercara Friddi, Sicilia, Italy.


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93 years ago

Monday 24th of November 1924

Actor and film director Charles Spencer Chaplin is born in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico.

Gray was pregnant, and as Chaplin could have been imprisoned for having sexual relations with a minor, they married in secret to avoid a scandal.


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91 years ago

Wednesday 24th of November 1926

Florence Fithian Monks is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Seattle, Washington, United States.


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88 years ago

Sunday 24th of November 1929

Major of San Francisco George Richard Moscone is born in San Francisco, California, United States.


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86 years ago the Detective Had a Hole in His Pocket

Tuesday 24th of November 1931

FBI Special Agent Albert Laurens Ingle is accidently shot dead when a private detective's gun fell out of his pocket at the age of 28 in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

Special Agent Ingle was working with a private detective to move a package of evidence that possibly related to a federal crime. The private detective had a pistol in his pocket but the pocket apparently had a hole in it and the pistol fell to the ground, firing and fatally striking Ingle. Ingle was the first Special Agent of the FBI to die in the line of duty but in a non-combat situation.


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79 years ago

Thursday 24th of November 1938

Spree killer Charles Raymond Starkweather aka Little Red is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.


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73 years ago

Friday 24th of November 1944

Poet and writer Jules Julius Anton Deelder aka De Nachtburgemeester van Rotterdam is born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.


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71 years ago

Sunday 24th of November 1946

Artist László Moholy-Nagy, originally László Weisz dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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71 years ago

Sunday 24th of November 1946

Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is born in Elisabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, 76 Glen Road, Burlington, Vermont, United States.

Conceived out of wedlock to a father who disappeared Bundy's mother, Eleanor Cowell, fled to the sanctuary of the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers. After his birth Bundy was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. He was raised for a while to think that they were his parents and his biological mother was his sister.


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54 years ago

Sunday 24th of November 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald is shot dead by nightclub operator Jack Ruby in Dallas Police Headquarters, 106 S. Harwood, Dallas, Texas, United States.


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51 years ago

Thursday 24th of November 1966

82 die in TABSO Ilyushin Il-18B Flight 101 crash in Svätý Jur, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.


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46 years ago

Wednesday 24th of November 1971

Hijacker D.B. Cooper jumps from the back of a Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 Boeing 727-051 after securing 200.000 $ ransom and four parachutes in Mount St. Helens, Washington, United States.

Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted FBI investigation D.B. Cooper has never been located or identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in commercial aviation history.


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26 years ago

Sunday 24th of November 1991

Singer-songwriter and musician Freddie Mercury, originally Pharōkh Balsārā‌ known from Queen dies of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS at the age of 45 in Garden Lodge, 1 Logan Place, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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25 years ago

Tuesday 24th of November 1992

141 die in China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-300 Flight 3943 crash in Liutang, Guangxi, China.



16 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 24th of November 2001

My final installation 'Daders van Dodingen' for an unusual presentation on the floor along the corridors of a psychiatric hospital in Psychiatrisch Centrum, Weststraat 135, Sleidinge, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


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13 years ago

Wednesday 24th of November 2004

School attacker Jia Qingyou is executed by the firing squad at the age of 36 in Jinan, Shandong, China.


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7 years ago

Wednesday 24th of November 2010

Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy dies peacefully in his sleep at home at the age of 55 in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.


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5 years ago

Saturday 24th of November 2012

117 die in Tazreen Fashion factory fire in Ashulia, Dhaka, Bangladesh.


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