33rd year - N° 317 Tuesday, 13 November 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 317 Tuesday, 13 November 2018

13 November / Today's 28 Events:

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(-) 1151 years ago Sunday 13th of November 0867 105th Pope Nicholaus I aka Saint Nicholas the Great dies of unknown causes at the age of 67 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 1016 years ago Saturday 13th of November 1002 34-year-old King of the English Æthelred the Unready orders to "slain all the Danish men who are in England" in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. The event is remembered as St. Brice's Day Massacre.

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(+) 706 years ago Sunday 13th of November 1312 King of England Edward III is born in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom. To bolster further the independent prestige of the young prince, king Edward II had Edward III created Earl of Chester at only twelve days of age.

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(-) 383 years ago Tuesday 13th of November 1635 Celebrity Thomas Parr aka Old Tom Parr choked on some food and died at the table while eating with King Charles I at the age of 152 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 300 years ago Sandwiches Were not Yet Served Sunday 13th of November 1718 4th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu known for inventing the Sandwich is born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 169 years ago Tuesday 13th of November 1849 Murderess Marie Manning, originally Marie de Roux aka The Bermondsey Horror is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Southwark, London, South London, . Manning's hanging was the first time a husband and wife had been executed together in the United Kingdom since 1700. Supposedly wearing black satin, Manning's hanging drew a crowd of 50.000, including writer Charles Dickens.

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(+) 168 years ago He Was a Treasure on the Island Wednesday 13th of November 1850 Writer Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson known for his novel ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ is born in 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 150 years ago Friday 13th of November 1868 Composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini is born at the age of 76 in Passy, 2 Avenue Ingres, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 118 years ago Tuesday 13th of November 1900 Cousin and first wife of Jesse James Zerelda Amanda Mimms dies of pneumonia at the age of 55 in 3402 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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(x) 109 years ago Saturday 13th of November 1909 259 die in St. Paul's Company mine fire in St. Paul's Company, Cherry, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 80 years ago Sunday 13th of November 1938 Actress Jean Dorothy Seberg is born in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 78 years ago Wednesday 13th of November 1940 Wiener Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 63 years ago Sunday 13th of November 1955 Actress and television host Whoopi Goldberg, originally Caryn Elaine Johnson is born in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 58 years ago Sunday 13th of November 1960 152 Kurdish schoolchildren die in Amouda Cinema fire in Amuda, Al Hasakah, Syria. The Egyptian horror film 'The Midnight Ghost' was playing.

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(+) 54 years ago Friday 13th of November 1964 Serial killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Saturday 13th of November 1965 92 die in SS Yarmouth Castle fire in Northwest Providence Channel, Atlantic Ocean.

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(-) 48 years ago Friday 13th of November 1970 Murderess Maria Groesbeek is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. "My husband wouldn't give me a divorce, so I poisoned him with arsenic," Groesbeek told police when they came to arrest her.

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(-) 44 years ago Wednesday 13th of November 1974 Neorealist film director Vittorio De Sica dies of lung cancer at the age of 73 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 44 years ago Wednesday 13th of November 1974 Chemical technician and labor union activist Karen Gay Silkwood dies in a car accident under unclear circumstances at the age of 28 in South Portland Avenue, Crescent, Oklahoma, United States. Silkwood's car was rammed from behind by another vehicle with the intent to cause an accident that would result in her death. Skid marks from Silkwood's car were present on the road, suggesting that she was trying to get back onto the road after being pushed from behind.

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(x) 44 years ago Wednesday 13th of November 1974 43-year-old Ronald Sr., 42-year-old Louise, 18-year-old Dawn, 13-year-old Allison, 12-year-old Mark and 7-year-old John are shot dead by their son and brother 23-year-old Mass murderer Ronald Joseph 'Butch' DeFeo aka The Amityville Horror Murderer in 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, United States. "Once I started, I just couldn't stop. It went so fast."

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(-) 41 years ago Sunday 13th of November 1977 Dolores Ann 'Dolly' Cepeda is raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 703 East Colorado Street, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 32 years ago The World Was Shocked Thursday 13th of November 1986 Tenor Rudolf Schock aka Der Czárdás-König dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Gürzenich, Düren, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 21 years ago Thursday 13th of November 1997 Double murderer Dawud Majid Mu'Min, originally David Michael Allen is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Greensville Correctional Center, Jarratt, Virginia, United States.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 13th of November 1999 A welcoming act on the launch of the now defunct 'Café Belge' in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 14 years ago They Got Him in the Bottle Saturday 13th of November 2004 Musician John 'Jhonn' Balance, originally Geoffrey Laurence Burton, later Geoff(rey) Rushton known from the experimental music group Coil falls to his death from a two story balcony under the influence of alcohol at his home at the age of 42 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 13th of November 2005 A courtyard of the Forbidden City in Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(x) 9 years ago Friday 13th of November 2009 47-year-old Anti-government protester Tang Fu-zhen sets herself ablaze in an act of protest against the demolition of a garment processing unit in Jinhua, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Four members of Tang Fu-zhen's family ended up wounded and in the hospital. Tang Fu-zhen was officially pronounced dead by the hospital on 29 November 2009.

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(-) 8 years ago Saturday 13th of November 2010 Serial killer Farid Baghlani is executed by hanging in Ahvāz‎‎, Ostān-e Khūzestān, Iran.

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