32nd year - N° 364 Saturday, 30 December 2017

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32nd year - N° 364 Saturday, 30 December 2017

30 December / Today's 20 Events:

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(x) 407 years ago Thursday 30th of December 1610 50-year-old Countess and serial killer Erzsébet de Ecsed Báthory aka Die Blutfrau and four of her servants, who were accused of being her accomplices: Dorotya Semtész, Ilona Jó, Katarína Benická and János Újváry aka Ibis aka Fickó are arrested in Csejte Vára, Čachtice, Trenčín, Slowakia. One girl was found dead and one dying in Báthory's castle.

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(+) 152 years ago Saturday 30th of December 1865 Writer Rudyard Joseph Kipling known for his novel ‘Jungle Book’ is born in J.J. School, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, India.

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(+) 131 years ago Thursday 30th of December 1886 Artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare is born in Bloomfield House, Bloomfield Place, King Street, Snow Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 114 years ago Wednesday 30th of December 1903 605 die in Iroquois Theatre fire in Iroquois Theatre, 24–28 West Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States. At the beginning of the second act, a dance number in the popular Drury Lane musical 'Mr. Bluebeard', was in progress when an arc light shorted out and sparks ignited a muslin curtain.

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(+) 108 years ago Thursday 30th of December 1909 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinz Martin is born in Chemnitz, Sachsen, Germany.

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(+) 107 years ago Friday 30th of December 1910 Writer Paul Frederic Bowles is born in Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 89 years ago He Originated Sunday 30th of December 1928 Musician Bo Diddley, originally Ellas Otha Bates aka The Originator is born in McComb, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 85 years ago Friday 30th of December 1932 Trained nurse and triple murderess Daisy de Melker, originally Daisy Louisa Hancorn-Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. De Melker poisoned her husband and son with arsenic. Two other husbands and four children had died suspiciously.

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(+) 83 years ago He Was no Runaway Sunday 30th of December 1934 Singer-songwriter and musician Del Shannon, originally Charles Weedon Westover is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 71 years ago Monday 30th of December 1946 Poet and musician Patti Patricia Lee Smith aka The Godmother of Punk is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 70 years ago Tuesday 30th of December 1947 Art forger Han Henricus Antonius van Meegeren dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Valeriuskliniek, Valeriusplein, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 61 years ago Sunday 30th of December 1956 41-year-old Art vandal Hugo Unzaga Villegas throws a brick at Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' in Musée du Louvre, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France. A psychiatric report on Villegas by Dr. Gouriou on 14 January 1957 found that the man was insane, heard strange voices, and had intended to murder the Argentinean dictator Juan Perón but went instead for the less well protected Mona Lisa.

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(+) 58 years ago Wednesday 30th of December 1959 Actress and comedian Tracey Ullman, originally Trace is born in Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 51 years ago Friday 30th of December 1966 Murderer Stanley Allison Baker is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Baker's father was in the US Army in Paris.

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(x) 39 years ago Saturday 30th of December 1978 32-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness escapes in County Jail, 107 8th Street, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, United States. Bundy piled books and files in his bunk bed under a blanket to simulate his sleeping body and slipped into the crawlspace above his cell. He broke through the ceiling into the apartment of the chief jailer who was out for the evening with his wife, changed into street clothes from the jailer's closet and walked out the front door to freedom.

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(-) 39 years ago Saturday 30th of December 1978 Stephen Dean Holmes is strangled and drowned by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 35 years ago Thursday 30th of December 1982 David M. Block is stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Deerfield, Illinois, United States. Block's body was found on 7 May 1984 in Zion, Illinois.

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(x) 21 years ago Monday 30th of December 1996 Over 100 die in Brahmaputra Mail passenger train bomb explosion in Fakiragram, Assam, India. The Indian government blamed the attack on an Assamese separatist organisation Bodo Security Force.

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(x) 13 years ago Thursday 30th of December 2004 194 die in República Cromañón nightclub fire in República Cromañón, 3060/3066/3070 Bartolomé Mitre, Balvanera, Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina. The blaze was started when a pyrotechnic flare was set off during a concert by the rock group 'Callejeros', and ignited foam in the ceiling. Four of the six doors had been wired shut to keep out "people who would not enter without paying".

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 30th of December 2006 Detail of a blood painting by Hermann Nitsch in a retrospective exhibition in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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