33rd year - N° 324 Tuesday, 20 November 2018

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33rd year - N° 324 Tuesday, 20 November 2018

20 November / Today's 32 Events:

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(+) 266 years ago Monday 20th of November 1752 Poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry Thomas Chatterton is born in Redcliffe, Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.

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(+) 257 years ago Friday 20th of November 1761 253rd Pope Pius VIII, originally Francesco Saverio Castiglioni is born in Cingoli, Marche, Italy.

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(-) 141 years ago Tuesday 20th of November 1877 Double murderer Henry March is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Norwich Castle, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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(+) 129 years ago Wednesday 20th of November 1889 Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Powell Hubble is born in Marshfield, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 124 years ago Tuesday 20th of November 1894 Louise Marcel is murdered by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est in Vidauban, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(+) 116 years ago Thursday 20th of November 1902 SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt is born in Bad Kissingen, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 115 years ago He Was Hanged by Water Power Friday 20th of November 1903 Old West scout and hired gunman Tom Thomas Horn is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. Horn was one of the few people to have been hanged by a water-powered gallows known as the 'Julian Gallows', designed by Cheyenne architect James P. Julian. On the scaffold Horn shouted: "Ain't losing your nerve are you, Joe?".

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(-) 108 years ago Sunday 20th of November 1910 Writer Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in Lva Tolstogo, Astapovo, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 94 years ago Thursday 20th of November 1924 Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(+) 93 years ago Friday 20th of November 1925 Politician Robert Francis 'Bobby' Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 87 years ago Friday 20th of November 1931 Founder of The Process Church of The Final Judgment Mary Ann DeGrimston, originally Mary Ann MacLean is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 84 years ago Tuesday 20th of November 1934 42-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker is sentenced to death in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 82 years ago Friday 20th of November 1936 Arte Povera artist Luciano Fabro is born in Torino, Piedmontese, Italy.

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(-) 82 years ago Friday 20th of November 1936 Founder of the Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera is executed by the firing squad at the age of 33 in Alicante, Alicante, Spain.

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(+) 67 years ago Tuesday 20th of November 1951 Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman Jeffrey Alan Konen is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 62 years ago Tuesday 20th of November 1956 Model and actress Bo Derek, originally Mary Cathleen Collins is born in Long Beach, California, United States.

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(+) 62 years ago Tuesday 20th of November 1956 Spree killer David Malcolm Gray known for The Aramoana Massacre is born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

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(x) 59 years ago Friday 20th of November 1959 30-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for abduction in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

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(x) 58 years ago Sunday 20th of November 1960 37-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer stabs his 37-year-old wife Adele with a penknife in the abdomen and back at a party in their apartment in 250 West 94th Street, New York, New York, United States. Adele's pericardium was punctured and necessitated emergency surgery. She would not press charges and Mailer later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault and was given a suspended sentence.

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(x) 54 years ago Friday 20th of November 1964 37-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is arrested on charges of burglary in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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(-) 43 years ago Thursday 20th of November 1975 Caudillo de España y de la Cruzada Francisco Bahamonde Franco dies of Parkinson's disease at the age of 83 in Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

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(-) 40 years ago Monday 20th of November 1978 Surrealist artist Giorgio de Chirico dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 28 years ago Tuesday 20th of November 1990 54-year-old Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is arrested in Gvardeyskaya ul., Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

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(x) 25 years ago Saturday 20th of November 1993 116 die in Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak 42D Flight 110 crash in Ohrid Airport, Ohrid, Southwestern, Macedonia. 23-year-old Rade Jevremovic survived but was badly injured and died without ever regaining consciousness on 1 December 1993.

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(x) 21 years ago Thursday 20th of November 1997 Interior minister Jack Straw decides to uphold the ruling made by his predecessor Michael Howard that 55-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) would serve her life sentence or tariff in full and die in jail, in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Hindley had requested a judicial review of her sentence.

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(-) 20 years ago He Felt Like a Very Lucky Man Friday 20th of November 1998 Double murderer John Thomas Noland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 16 years ago Wednesday 20th of November 2002 Triple murderer William Wesley Chappell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 66 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Chappell was the oldest inmate Texas has put to death.

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(-) 15 years ago He Went There Thursday 20th of November 2003 Double murderer Robert Lloyd Henry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Henry's last words were "Here I Go".

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 20th of November 2003 This is the bed where conceptual artist Martin Maloney died, impoverished, ill-infected and alone in his studio in Jacob Jordaenskaai, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 12 years ago Monday 20th of November 2006 Film director Robert Bernard Altman dies of leukemia at the age of 81 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 20th of November 2008 Surveillance cameras on the corner of the building where Rote Armee Fraktion member Elisabeth Von Dyck was shot in the back and killed by a police sniper on 4 May 1979 in Haus Stephanstraße 40, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 5 years ago Wednesday 20th of November 2013 White-supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, originally James Clayton Vaughn aka The Racist Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 63 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States. Franklin's execution was the first lethal injection in Missouri to use only Pentobarbital instead of the conventional three drug cocktail.

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