33rd year - N° 348 Friday, 14 December 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 348 Friday, 14 December 2018

14 December / Today's 19 Events:

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(+) 515 years ago Monday 14th of December 1503 Apothecary and seer Nostradamus, originally Michel de Nostredame known for his collections of prophecies is born in Rue Hoche, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France.

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(-) 219 years ago Saturday 14th of December 1799 Founding Father and 1st President of the United States George Washington dies of epiglottitis and hypovolemic shock after a ride in snow and rain around his estate at the age of 67 in Mount Vernon, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 153 years ago Thursday 14th of December 1865 Serial poisoner George Chapman, originally Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski aka The Borough Poisoner is born in Nagórna, Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland.

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(+) 139 years ago Sunday 14th of December 1879 Murder plotter Arthur Covell is born in Geuda Springs, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 122 years ago Monday 14th of December 1896 Surrealist poet Paul Éluard, originally Eugène Émile Paul Grindel is born in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 107 years ago Thursday 14th of December 1911 39-year-old Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen becomes the first man to reach the South-Pole in Polheim, the South Pole. Amundsen arrived at Polheim (Home at the Pole) along with four other members of his expedition: Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel.

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(+) 105 years ago Sunday 14th of December 1913 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Friedrich Abeling is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 95 years ago Friday 14th of December 1923 Writer Gerard Reve, originally Gerard Kornelis van het Reve is born in Van Hallstraat 25, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 83 years ago Saturday 14th of December 1935 Actress Lee Ann Remick is born in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 75 years ago Tuesday 14th of December 1943 Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Saturday 14th of December 1946 Actress and singer Jane Mallory Birkin is born in Marylebone, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 66 years ago Sunday 14th of December 1952 Ethel Simpson, originally Simpson Waddington is gassed and strangled by serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 59 years ago Monday 14th of December 1959 Ethel Little is tortured to death by an unidentified sexual deviate at the age of 53 in 1220 NW Thirty-first Street, Miami, Florida, United States. Little was confronted in her own home and savagely attacked and died of shock and blood loss. One of her breasts had been cut off and stuck onto a bedroom dresser mirror. Over 4000 palm prints were taken but a suspect was never found.

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(x) 50 years ago Saturday 14th of December 1968 47-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs 'Ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee' in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 42 years ago Tuesday 14th of December 1976 35-year-old Serial killer Marcel Henri Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre is arrested after eight years of terror in Nogent-sur-Oise in Martinets, Montataire, Oise, France.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 14th of December 1999 A busdriver manoeuvering his vehicle through the traffic jam in Thanon Samdet Phra Pin Klao, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(-) 15 years ago He Was a Visitor Sunday 14th of December 2003 Musician Patrick Miller aka Minimal Man dies of unknown causes at the age of 51 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 6 years ago Friday 14th of December 2012 53-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Sower of Fear' in Musis Sacrum, Koningsplein 12, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands.

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(-) 5 years ago Saturday 14th of December 2013 Actor Peter Seamus O'Toole dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Wellington Hospital, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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