33rd year - N° 329 Sunday, 25 November 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 329 Sunday, 25 November 2018

25 November / Today's 23 Events:

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(+) 174 years ago Monday 25th of November 1844 Automobile designer and manufacturer Karl Benz, originally Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant is born in Rheinstraße 22 Quartier, Mühlburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 137 years ago He Was Blessed Friday 25th of November 1881 Giovanni XXIII, originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli aka Il Papa Buono is born in Sotto il Monte, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 123 years ago Monday 25th of November 1895 8th President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Ludvík Svoboda is born in Hroznatín, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 118 years ago Sunday 25th of November 1900 SS-Obersturmbannführer and longest serving commandant of Auschwitz-KZ Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss is born in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 117 years ago Monday 25th of November 1901 Lagerkommandant in KZ Auschwitz and Majdanek Arthur Liebehenschel is born in Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland.

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(+) 112 years ago Sunday 25th of November 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Fritz Wittig is born in Kassel, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 104 years ago Wednesday 25th of November 1914 Baseball player Joe Joseph Paul DiMaggio, originally Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio aka Joltin' Joe aka The Yankee Clipper is born in Martinez, California, United States.

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(+) 103 years ago Thursday 25th of November 1915 Dictatorial president Augusto Pinochet, originally Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte is born in Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile.

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(x) 82 years ago Wednesday 25th of November 1936 Start of the trial against 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(+) 72 years ago Monday 25th of November 1946 Serial killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Torso Killer is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 54 years ago Wednesday 25th of November 1964 Margaret Mary Flemming McGowan aka Frances Brown aka Ann Sutherland aka Susan Edwards aka Frances Quinn is found naked and choked to death by unidentified serial killer Jack the Stripper in Hornton Street, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 51 years ago Saturday 25th of November 1967 Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, originally Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin dies after undergoing abdominal surgery at the age of 79 in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 48 years ago Wednesday 25th of November 1970 Poet, writer and actor Yukio Mishima, originally Kimitake Hiraoka commits suicide by Seppuku at the age of 45 in Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces Headquarters, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. The act was to end in Mishima's ritual decapitation by Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita. Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform the decapitation properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. After Mishima was decapitated, Morita also attempted to commit Seppuku and was beheaded by Koga.

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(-) 45 years ago Sunday 25th of November 1973 Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is stabbed through the heart in the prison infirmary by Robert Wilson at the age of 42 in Walpole State Prison, Walpole, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 43 years ago Tuesday 25th of November 1975 Julia Goncalves is shot dead and violated by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Parc Hébert, Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France.

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(+) 37 years ago Wednesday 25th of November 1981 Victim of Marc Dutroux Laetitia Delhez is born in Bertrix, Luxembourg, Belgium.

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(x) 31 years ago He Had Hair like Carl Lewis Wednesday 25th of November 1987 Berthe Finalteri is attacked and tortured by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in Rue d'Alsace, Xe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Finalteri unexpectedly recovered and was able to give an accurate description of her attacker, "a mix-race man in his twenties, with hair like Carl Lewis and an earring in his left ear".

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(-) 31 years ago Wednesday 25th of November 1987 Rachel Cohen is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 46 Rue du Château d'eau, Xe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 29 years ago Saturday 25th of November 1989 Elizabeth Liz Gibson is abducted and strangled by serial killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Thursday 25th of November 1993 10-year-old Robert Thompson and 10-year-old Jon Venables are sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for killing 3-year-old Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulger in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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8 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 25th of November 2010 A worn out medieval piece of wood looking like some Gold Coast in my workshop in Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 2 years ago Friday 25th of November 2016 15th President of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro dies of unknown causes at the age of 90 in Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.

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(-) 2 years ago Friday 25th of November 2016 Photographer and film director David Hamilton commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 83 in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Hamilton was facing allegations of rape by his former model Flavie Flament.

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