38th year - N° 362 Thursday, 28 December 2023

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
38th year - N° 362 Thursday, 28 December 2023

28 December / Today's 34 Events:

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(-) 212 years ago Saturday 28th of December 1811 Highwayman John Williams aka The Ratcliffe Highway Murderer commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 26 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 196 years ago Friday 28th of December 1827 Murderer Levi Kelley is executed by hanging in Cooperstown, New York, United States. During Kelley's public execution a temporary wooden scaffold holding hundreds of spectators collapsed and two people were killed.

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(+) 182 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1841 Murderess Anna Månsdotter aka The Yngsjö Murderess is born in Yngsjö, Skåne, Sweden.

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(+) 167 years ago Sunday 28th of December 1856 28th President of the United States Woodrow Thomas Wilson is born in 18–24 North Coalter Street, Staunton, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 138 years ago Monday 28th of December 1885 Artist Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin is born in Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 135 years ago Friday 28th of December 1888 Expressionist film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, originally Plumpe known for the horror film Nosferatu is born in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 99 years ago Sunday 28th of December 1924 Victim of James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer Michael Gregsten is born in Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 98 years ago Monday 28th of December 1925 Actress and singer Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 97 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1926 Germania Harpin is strangled and raped by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Nelson also strangled Harpin's 8-month-old son Robert, his first and only murder of a male victim and of a young child.

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(+) 92 years ago Monday 28th of December 1931 Theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International Guy Ernest Debord is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 89 years ago Friday 28th of December 1934 X-rays of the pelvic region of 64-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac reveal 27 needles scattered thoughout the area of his groin and lower abdomen in Grasslands Hospital, 100 Woods Road, Valhalla, New York, United States. Fish began to indulge in self-harm since his wife left him for John Straube in January 1917.

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(+) 87 years ago Monday 28th of December 1936 Gangster Jacques René Mesrine aka Public Enemy No. 1 is born in 5 Avenue Anatole-France, Clichy-la-Garenne, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 86 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1937 Composer, pianist and conductor Maurice Joseph Ravel known for his work ‘Boléro’ dies after surgery in an attempt to stop ventricular dilatation at the age of 62 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 28th of December 1941 Marlboro Man Eric Layton Lawson is born in Glendale, California, United States.

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(-) 78 years ago Friday 28th of December 1945 Naturalist writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser known for An American Tragedy dies of unknown causes at the age of 74 in Hollywood, California, United States.

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(-) 66 years ago Saturday 28th of December 1957 Isabelle Cooke is raped and strangled by serial killer Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw in Mount Vernon, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 64 years ago Monday 28th of December 1959 Murderer Johnny Ray Anderson is born in Beaumont, Texas, United States.

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(-) 60 years ago Saturday 28th of December 1963 Composer Paul Hindemith dies of pancreatitis at the age of 68 in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 51 years ago Thursday 28th of December 1972 The skeleton of 72-year-old Nazi official and private secretary to Adolf Hitler Martin Bormann is found during construction works in Lehrter Bahnhof, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Bormann committed suicide on 2 May 1945.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 28th of December 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Death-Interruption - 1' with Frank De Busscher in Ruimte Z, Lovelingstraat 56, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Inside, the space was lit by 100 burning candles. Through the window you could see the tied up bodies of me and Frank De Busscher, a pointed wooden stick placed between their bodies and the door. It took four hours, until all the candles were burned up. Johan Desmet made music with tapes and found footage sounds.

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(x) 41 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1982 Trevor Simpson is attacked by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 41 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1982 Steven Ray Agan is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Newport, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 1982 The body of 21-year-old Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer John Lee Roach is found in State Road 243 exit, Putnamville, Indiana, United States. Roach was stabbed to death.

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(-) 40 years ago He Experienced Shallow Water Blackout Wednesday 28th of December 1983 Musician Dennis Carl Wilson known from The Beach Boys drowns after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover items he had thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier at the age of 39 in Marina Del Rey, California, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Friday 28th of December 1984 Film director Sam David Samuel Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence dies of heart failure at the age of 59 in Inglewood, California, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Friday 28th of December 1984 Multiple murderer Robert Lee Willie aka Dead Man Walking is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Monday 28th of December 1987 47-year-old Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons drives into town and shoots several people in different offices before surrendering without resistance to the police in Russelville, Arkansas, United States. Simmons walked into a law office and killed 24-year-old receptionist Kathy Kendrick; he had been infatuated with her, but she had rejected him. He next went to an oil company office where he shot dead 33-year-old J.D. Chaffin and wounded owner Rusty Taylor. Simmons then drove on to a convenience store where he had previously worked, shooting and wounding two more people. Afterwards he went to the office of the Woodline Motor Freight Company where he shot and wounded a wo man. Simmons then simply sat in the office and chatted with one of the secretaries while waiting for the police. In the week before Simmons killed 14 members of his family in two events.

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(-) 34 years ago Thursday 28th of December 1989 Felicia Stephens is abducted and strangled by serial killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer in Salmon Creek, Rochester, New York, United States.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 28th of December 1999 A strange staring character on my daily ride home with the last bus n° 123 from Thanon Maharat via Sanam Luang in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(-) 22 years ago Friday 28th of December 2001 Presumed multiple murderer Lawrence Bernard Singleton dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Northwest Florida Reception Center, 4455 Sam Mitchell Drive, Chipley, Florida, United States.

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(-) 22 years ago He Stopped at the 26th Pace Friday 28th of December 2001 Heart patient Arne Larsson known for having the first pacemaker implant dies of melanoma at the age of 86 in Nacka, Södermanland, Sweden. Larsson lived for forty-three years and during that time went through twenty-six pacemakers.

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(x) 21 years ago Saturday 28th of December 2002 43-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Parels voor de Zwijnen' in Vermeersch Pig Farm, Zedelgemsesteenweg 64, Eernegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. A handful spectators was led along a muddy path in the dark towards a pig stye where they can enter one by one. The pig stye is divided in partitions that hold seven pigs each, totalling about 100 pigs. At the end of the small corridor that leads through the middle of the stye a film is projected onto my naked body. From several incisions in my body blood is seeping. I hung there for about half an hour. The pigs got excited by the smell of people and blood.

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(x) 19 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 2004 Noise music band Club Moral play their 109th concert in Atelier Philip Huyghe, Ommeganckstraat 22, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 19 years ago Tuesday 28th of December 2004 Writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher and political activist Susan Sontag, originally Susan Rosenblatt dies of complications of myelodysplastic syndrome which had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia at the age of 71 in New York City, New York, United States.

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