38th year - N° 323 Sunday, 19 November 2023

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38th year - N° 323 Sunday, 19 November 2023

19 November / Today's 42 Events:

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(-) 1525 years ago Wednesday 19th of November 0498 50th Pope Anastasius II dies of unknown causes at the age of 53 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 195 years ago Wednesday 19th of November 1828 Composer Franz Peter Schubert dies of typhoid fever at the age of 31 in Wien, Wien, Austria. Schubert was also suffering from a tertiary stage of syphilis.

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(+) 192 years ago Saturday 19th of November 1831 20th President of the United States James Abraham Garfield is born in Moreland Hills, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 165 years ago Friday 19th of November 1858 Murderer William H. Buse is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Jacinto, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 163 years ago Monday 19th of November 1860 Murderer James Mullins is executed by hanging at the age of 58 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Many believed Mullins was innocent.

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(-) 146 years ago Monday 19th of November 1877 Murderer William Hassel is executed by hanging by William Marwood in Exeter Prison, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.

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(-) 145 years ago Tuesday 19th of November 1878 Murderer James M'Gowan is executed by hanging by William Marwood in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(-) 140 years ago Monday 19th of November 1883 Murderer Peter Bray is executed by hanging in Durham Gaol, Elvet, Durham, North East, United Kingdom.

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(-) 128 years ago Tuesday 19th of November 1895 Murderer Richard Wingrove is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 125 years ago Saturday 19th of November 1898 Wife of Bruno Richard Hauptmann Anna Schoeffler is born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 122 years ago It Was Henry's First Job Tuesday 19th of November 1901 Murderer Marcel Faugeron is executed by hanging by James Billington at the age of 23 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Billington was assisted by a new executioner Henry Pierrepoint. This was to be Henry's first job as an assistant.

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(+) 119 years ago He Was the Perfect Child Saturday 19th of November 1904 Kidnapper and murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer is born in 3223 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 108 years ago Friday 19th of November 1915 Songwriter and labor activist Joe Hill, originally Joel Emmanuel Hägglund is executed by the firing squad at the age of 36 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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(+) 106 years ago Monday 19th of November 1917 First female Prime Minister of India Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi is born in Anand Bhavan, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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(+) 90 years ago Sunday 19th of November 1933 Television host Larry King, originally Lawrence Harvey Zeiger is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Saturday 19th of November 1938 Media tycoon Ted Robert Edward Turner known for founding Cable News Network aka CNN is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 81 years ago Thursday 19th of November 1942 Underwear designer Calvin Richard Klein is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 75 years ago Friday 19th of November 1948 Child killer Peter Griffiths is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 22 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(-) 74 years ago Saturday 19th of November 1949 Artist James Sidney Edouard Ensor dies of unknown causes at the age of 89 in Heilig Hart Ziekenhuis, Gouwelozestraat 100, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 69 years ago The Bullet-Shaped Horn Button Took His Left Eye Friday 19th of November 1954 29-year-old Actor, singer and entertainer Sammy Samuel George Davis Jr. loses his left eye to the bullet-shaped horn button (a standard feature in 1954 and 1955 Cadillacs) in an automobile accident in Cajon Boulevard and Kendall Drive, San Bernardino, California, United States. Davis wore an eye patch for at least six months following the accident. Later he was fitted for a glass eye which he wore for the rest of his life.

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(+) 61 years ago Monday 19th of November 1962 Double murderer Farley Charles Matchett is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 61 years ago Monday 19th of November 1962 Actress Jodie Alicia Christian Foster is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 60 years ago Tuesday 19th of November 1963 38-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 11-year-old boy in Trinity, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 60 years ago Tuesday 19th of November 1963 Spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement Zeena Galatea LaVey is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 52 years ago He Hoped to Have Some Good Photos Friday 19th of November 1971 25-year-old Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Shoot' in F Space, 1514 E Edinger Avenue, Santa Ana, California, United States. "I will be shot with a rifle at 7:45 p.m." Burden wrote to the editors of the avant-garde publication Avalanche of his landmark performance piece. "I hope to have some good photos."

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(x) 46 years ago Saturday 19th of November 1977 131 die in Transportes Aeros Portugueses Boeing 727-282 Advanced Flight 425 crash and explosion in Madeira Airport, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

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(-) 46 years ago Saturday 19th of November 1977 Kristina Weckler is raped, tortured and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 703 East Colorado Street, Glendale, California, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Monday 19th of November 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'A-B' with Lud Vandevelde in Koninklijke Akademie voor Schone Kunsten, Berouw, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. For an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts I painted a line of lime through the city with Lud Vandevelde as a connection between the studios and the exhibition space. Halfway we were arrested by the police.

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(x) 39 years ago Monday 19th of November 1984 544 die in Petroleos Mexicanos storage and distribution facility explosion in San Juanico, Mexico City, Mexico. The San Juanico disaster was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in world history.

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(x) 32 years ago Tuesday 19th of November 1991 140 die in sailboat shipwreck in Cape Maisí, Guantanamo, Cuba.

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(x) 32 years ago Tuesday 19th of November 1991 80 die in train derailment in Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico.

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(-) 31 years ago Thursday 19th of November 1992 Triple murderer Jeffery Lee Griffin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 30 years ago Friday 19th of November 1993 81 die in toy factory fire in Kuiyon, Shenzen, China. During the fire most of the doors and windows were locked to keep people inside the factory during working hours.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 19th of November 1997 Multiple murderer Michael Eugene Sharp is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 24 years ago Friday 19th of November 1999 Double murderer David Junior Brown aka Dawud Abdullah Muhammad is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 21 years ago Tuesday 19th of November 2002 Cop killer Creig Neil Ogan is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 19th of November 2002 Curious pigs wondering why a performance artist wants to present one of his works in their sty in Vermeersch Pig Farm, Zedelgemsesteenweg 64, Eernegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 19 years ago Friday 19th of November 2004 Musician and record producer Terry Melcher, originally Terrence Paul Jorden known for his brief association with Charles Manson dies of melanoma at the age of 62 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

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(-) 14 years ago Thursday 19th of November 2009 Murderer David Lagrue commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 38 in Maison d'Arrêt, 92 Rue Pierre Semard, Évreux, Haute-Normendie, France. On 2 January 2007 Lagrue witnessed his cellmate Nicolas Cocaign kill and partly eat another cellmate in the prison of Rouen.

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(-) 14 years ago She Said Hi to Forever Thursday 19th of November 2009 Fashion model Daul Kim commits suicide by hanging at the age of 20 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. A final post on Kim's blog read: "Say hi to forever."

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(-) 9 years ago Wednesday 19th of November 2014 Film and theatre director Mike Nichols, originally Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 6 years ago Sunday 19th of November 2017 Family leader Charles Milles Manson, originally no name Maddox known for conspiracy to murder Sharon Tate dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Kern County Hospital, 1700 Mount Vernon Avenue, Bakersfield, California, United States.

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