32nd year - N° 354 Wednesday, 20 December 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 354 Wednesday, 20 December 2017

20 December / Today's 20 Events:

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(+) 214 years ago Tuesday 20th of December 1803 Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is born in 62 Rue Pas Étroit, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 116 years ago Friday 20th of December 1901 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Hermann Bock is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 93 years ago Saturday 20th of December 1924 35-year-old Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving 9 months for his attempt at a coup d'état a year earlier in Kriegsverbrechergefängnis, Landsberg am Lech, Oberbayern, Germany. While in prison, Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf'.

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(x) 90 years ago Tuesday 20th of December 1927 Nazi leader and Stellvertreter des Führers Rudolf Walter Richard Hess is released from prison after serving 9 months for his attempt at a coup d'état a year earlier in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 71 years ago Friday 20th of December 1946 Illusionist, magician, television personality and self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller is born in Tel Aviv, Gush Dan, Israel.

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(+) 69 years ago Monday 20th of December 1948 Musician and audio engineer Alan Parsons is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 65 years ago Saturday 20th of December 1952 Film director Roger Vadim, originally Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov is born in Eglise de Notre-Dame- de-Grâce, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Vadim and Bardot divorced on 6 December 1957.

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(x) 57 years ago Tuesday 20th of December 1960 49-year-old SS Sturmbannführer and commander of Auschwitz KZ Richard Baer is arrested as Karl Egon Neumann in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(x) 54 years ago Friday 20th of December 1963 Start of the second 'Auschwitz Trial' against 22 defendants in Bürgerhaus Gallus, Frankenallee 111, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. Defendants ranged from members of the SS to kapos and privileged prisoners responsible for low-level control of camp internees.

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(-) 44 years ago Thursday 20th of December 1973 Singer-songwriter Bobby Darin, originally Walden Robert Cassotto aka The Dream Lover dies while recovering from initially succesful open-heart surgery to repair two artificial heart valves without regaining consciousness. at the age of 37 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States. There were no funeral arrangements; Darin's last wish in his will was that his body be donated to science for medical research.

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(x) 44 years ago Thursday 20th of December 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco is blown up by Basque nationalist and separatist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna aka ETA in Calle Claudio Coello 104, Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain. Over five months, the ETA commando unit using the code name Txikia dug a tunnel under the street, telling the landlord that they were student sculptors to hide their true purpose. The tunnel was packed with 80 kg of explosives that had been stolen from a Government depot. Blanco's bodyguard and driver were also killed in the operation.

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(x) 41 years ago Monday 20th of December 1976 41-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Paul Honka aka Der Frauen-Schlächter von St. Pauli is convicted to 15 years imprisonment and sent to a mental asylum for life in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Honka was released from prison in 1993 and spent his last years under the name of Peter Jensen in an nursing home.

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(x) 38 years ago Thursday 20th of December 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Perfectone' in Zaal Cercle, Recolettenlei, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. During a concert by the band 'Perfectone', I was hanging upside-down and reading an instructive manual on Braun flash-devices. In the meanwhile several photographers made flashlight-pictures from the audience.

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(-) 34 years ago Tuesday 20th of December 1983 Hedda Bükow is strangled by serial killer Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer in Tiergarten, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 20th of December 1985 Estelle Donjoux is tortured and suffocated under her mattress by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 14 rue Lacaze, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 30 years ago Sunday 20th of December 1987 4375 die in MV Doña Paz ferry and MT Vector oil tanker collision and fire in Dumali Point, Marinduque, Tablas Strait, Philippines. The collision resulted in the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history.

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(x) 22 years ago Wednesday 20th of December 1995 159 die in American Airlines Boeing 757-223 Flight 965 crash in El Deluvio, Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Five passengers, Gonzalo Dussan Monroy, Michelle Dussan, Mercedes Ramirez, Mauricio Reyes and Gonzalo 'Gonzalito' Dussan, Jr survived although Gonzalito died in surgery. Crews found a small brown dog alive inside a carrier in the cargo hold. They renamed him Milagro, which is Spanish for 'miracle.

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(-) 21 years ago Friday 20th of December 1996 Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and futurologist Carl Edward Sagan dies of pneumonia at the age of 62 in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 20th of December 1999 Posters showing the way to my studio in Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 14 years ago Saturday 20th of December 2003 44-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Trop = Teveel' outside the entrance in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. 'Once Upon a Time..., a look at art in Belgium in the Nineties', was an exhibition of the collection of contemporary Belgian art which the Cera Foundation was able to put together during 5 years of patronage. - I pulled a bag over my head and tied up my feet and hands. I fell forward and lay on the ground. - Cera Holding is a financial group. The contemporary art collection was predominantly bought by Paul Tanghe, Luk Lambrecht and Bart De Baere, current director of the M_hka. - After half an hour I was untie d by Mauro Pawlowski.

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