38th year - N° 353 Tuesday, 19 December 2023

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38th year - N° 353 Tuesday, 19 December 2023

19 December / Today's 30 Events:

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(-) 653 years ago Wednesday 19th of December 1370 200th Pope Urbanus V, originally Guillaume de Grimoard dies of unknown causes at the age of 60 in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(-) 175 years ago She Would Have No Poisoning Doctor Near Her Tuesday 19th of December 1848 Poet and writer Emily Jane Brontë aka Ellis Bell known for her novel Wuthering Heights dies of tuberculosis at the age of 30 in Haworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Though Brontë's condition worsened steadily she rejected medical help and all offered remedies saying that she would have "no poisoning doctor" near her.

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(-) 172 years ago the Sun was God Friday 19th of December 1851 Romantic landscape painter William Joseph Mallord Turner dies of natural causes at the age of 76 in 119 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Turner died in the house of his mistress Sophia Caroline Booth. His last words were "The sun is God."

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(-) 171 years ago Sunday 19th of December 1852 Frank Palmer is poisoned by serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners in Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Frank died only 7 hours following his birth.

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(-) 140 years ago Wednesday 19th of December 1883 Hendrik Frankhuizen is poisoned by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 117 years ago Wednesday 19th of December 1906 Soviet statesman Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is born in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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(x) 116 years ago Thursday 19th of December 1907 239 die in Darr Mine explosion in Pittsburgh Coal Company Darr Mine, Jacob's Creek, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 114 years ago Sunday 19th of December 1909 Unitarian peace activist Florence Beaumont is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 113 years ago Monday 19th of December 1910 Writer, thief and political activist Jean Genet is born in Maternité de la Rue d'Assas, Rue d'Assas 22, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Genet's mother Camille Gabrielle Genet was a young prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before putting him up for adoption.

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(-) 108 years ago His Heart Didn't Remember How to Beat Sunday 19th of December 1915 Psychiatrist and neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer dies of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Schlesien, Germany.

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(+) 108 years ago Sunday 19th of December 1915 Singer Édith Piaf, originally Édith Giovanna Gassion aka La Môme Piaf is born in Rue de Belleville 72, XXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Legend has it that Piaf was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville 72 but her birth certificate cites the Hôpital Tenon.

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(-) 98 years ago Saturday 19th of December 1925 A few minutes after a jury in Circuit Court had declared him not guilty of murder a lynch mob stormed the courthouse and takes Murder suspect Lindsey Coleman in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States.

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(x) 92 years ago Saturday 19th of December 1931 Nazi leader and Reichspropagandaleiter Joseph Paul Goebbels in Gut Severin, Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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(-) 89 years ago She Was the Last and Only Wednesday 19th of December 1934 Murderess Ethel Lillie Major is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint, assisted by his nephew Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 42 in Hull Prison, Kingston upon Hull, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Major was the last person and only woman to be executed at Hull Prison.

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(-) 78 years ago She Pulled Her Last Stunt Wednesday 19th of December 1945 Stunt actress Mary Wiggins aka Lucky known for doubling actress Ann Sothern commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 36 in Hollywood, California, United States.

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(-) 77 years ago Thursday 19th of December 1946 Gertrud Glöde is killed by serial killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher in Vienenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 67 years ago Wednesday 19th of December 1956 57-year-old General practitioner and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(-) 64 years ago Saturday 19th of December 1959 Jillian Macpherson Brewer is stabbed and hacked to death with a tomahawk and a pair of scissors by serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster in Cottesloe, Western Australia, Australia. 18-year old Darryl Beamish provided four confessions, two through a sign language interpreter, one a written statement and another in notes scrawled on the exercise yard at the Perth lock-up. Beamish said the confessions were obtained through intimidation and threats, and were untrue. Nevertheless Beamish was convicted of wilful murder in 1961 and sentenced to death by hanging. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he served 15 years. After six appeals his conviction was finally overturned in 2005.

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(x) 61 years ago Wednesday 19th of December 1962 24-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 1. Aktion in the house of Otto Muehl in Wien, Wien, Austria. "Kreuzigung und beschüttung eines menschlichen körpers."

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(-) 59 years ago Saturday 19th of December 1964 Christiane Herreman is raped and strangled by serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 55 years ago Thursday 19th of December 1968 Nora Wenzl is slashed dead by serial killer Manfred Wittmann aka The Beast of Oberfranken in Bad Staffelstein, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 52 years ago Sunday 19th of December 1971 Barbara Fields is abducted and raped by serial killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Fields survived.

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(x) 48 years ago Friday 19th of December 1975 27-year-old Member of the 'Manson Family' Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky known for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the attempted assassination of president Ford in Sacramento, California, United States.

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(-) 46 years ago Monday 19th of December 1977 John Carter Swint is shot dead by serial killer and companion to Henry Lee Lucas Ottis Toole in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 28 years ago Tuesday 19th of December 1995 A search of the house of 39-year-old Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Paul Alain Dutroux fails to discover 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo who are kept in a dungeon in his basement in 128 Route de Philippeville, Marcinelle, Hainaut, Belgium.

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(-) 27 years ago Thursday 19th of December 1996 Actor Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72 in 91 Rue de Seine, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 26 years ago Friday 19th of December 1997 104 die in SilkAir Boeing 737-36N Flight 185 crash in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. The time it took the aircraft to dive from cruise altitude to the river was less than one minute. The plane was traveling faster than the speed of sound for a few seconds before impact. Due to the high speed the entire aircraft and passengers disintegrated upon impact.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 19th of December 1999 Chinese New Year dance with a giant snake dragon carried through the streets, climbing on poles and trees in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(-) 23 years ago Tuesday 19th of December 2000 Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Cummins Unit, Varner, Arkansas, United States.

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(-) 4 years ago Thursday 19th of December 2019 Poet and writer Jules Julius Anton Deelder aka De Nachtburgemeester van Rotterdam dies of a short illness at the age of 75 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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