39th year - N° 362 Friday, 27 December 2024

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39th year - N° 362 Friday, 27 December 2024

27 December / Today's 21 Events:

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(+) 453 years ago Monday 27th of December 1571 Astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, philosopher and writer on music Johannes Kepler known his laws of planetary motion is born in Keplergasse 2, Weil der Stadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 307 years ago Monday 27th of December 1717 250th Pope Pius VI, originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi is born in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 202 years ago Friday 27th of December 1822 Chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur is born in 43 Rue Pasteur, Dôle, Jura - Franche-Comte, France.

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(+) 179 years ago Saturday 27th of December 1845 Murderer and cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert, originally Adolph Ludwig Lütgert aka The Sausage King is born in Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 178 years ago Sunday 27th of December 1846 Iowa is admitted as 29th of the United States of America in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 123 years ago Friday 27th of December 1901 Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich, originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch is born in Leberstrasse 65, Schöneberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 108 years ago Wednesday 27th of December 1916 Anne Collomb is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France. To Collomb, Landru was known as Mr Dupont.

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(-) 101 years ago Thursday 27th of December 1923 Engineer and architect Gustave Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Rue Rabelais, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 98 years ago Monday 27th of December 1926 Bonnie Pace is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 76 years ago Monday 27th of December 1948 Actor Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is born in Châteauroux, Indre, France.

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(-) 74 years ago Wednesday 27th of December 1950 Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in corner of 69th Street and Central Park West, New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago Tuesday 27th of December 1960 Multiple murderer Ricky Lee Green is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(+) 61 years ago Friday 27th of December 1963 Mass murderer Dennis Wayne Bagwell is born in Denver, Colorado, United States.

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(+) 59 years ago Monday 27th of December 1965 Serial killer Jean-Thierry Mathurin is born in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Guyane, France.

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(x) 49 years ago Saturday 27th of December 1975 372 die in Indian Iron and Steel Company coal mine explosion and flooding in Chasnala, Jharkhand, India. When a roof of coal caved in, 7 million imperial gallons (32.000 m³) of water per minute flooded into the mine.

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(x) 41 years ago Tuesday 27th of December 1983 63-year-old Ioannes Paulus II, originally Karol Józef Wojtyła visits his attempted assassin Mehmet Ali Agça in Rebibbia Prison, Via Raffaele Majetti 70, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 41 years ago Tuesday 27th of December 1983 Sergey Markov is stabbed and sexually mutilated by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Persianovsky, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Markov's body was found on 1 January 1984 in the area of ​​the Persianovka Railway Station on the Moscow-Rostov-on-Don line.

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(-) 38 years ago Saturday 27th of December 1986 Steven Fefferman is stabbed and sexually mutilated by multiple murderer Ricky Green in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(x) 18 years ago Wednesday 27th of December 2006 Noise music band Club Moral play their 124th concert as Bum Collar in Bavo&Sofie, Graaf Van Hoornestraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 17 years ago Thursday 27th of December 2007 Film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.

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(-) 17 years ago Thursday 27th of December 2007 Benazir Bhutto is shot dead and a suicide bomb is detonated immediately following the shooting at the age of 54 in Liaqat National Bagh, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.  Twenty three other people were killed by the bombing. Al-Qaeda commander Mustafa Abu al-Yazid claimed responsibility for the assassination.

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