Tuesday, December 31, 2013

65 Years Ago They Loved to Love Their Baby

1678 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 December 335
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33rd Pope Sylvester I dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.

635 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 December 1378
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209th Pope Callixtus III originally Alfons de Borja, is born in Valencia, Xativa, Spain.

499 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 December 1514
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Anatomist Andreas Vesalius is born in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

265 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 December 1748
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Feminist Olympe de Gouges originally Marie Gouze, is born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France.

144 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1869
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Artist Henri Emile Benoit Matisse is born in Bohin-en-Vermandois, France.

136 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 December 1877
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Artist Gustave Courbet dies at the age of 58 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.

127 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1886
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Artist and magician Austin Osman Spare is born in London, Snow Hill, London City of, United Kingdom.

115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 December 1898
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Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France.

105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 December 1908
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Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal is born in Buczacz, Ukraïne, Russia.

91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 December 1922
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The Goetheaneum, built by 61-year-old Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, is destroyed by fire in Switzerland.

76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1937
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Actor Anthony Hopkins aka Hannibal Lecter, is born in Wales, United Kingdom.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1943
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Musician John Denver originally Henry John Deutschendorf, is born in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1943
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Actor Ben Kingsley originally Krishna Banji, is born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1948
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Musician Donna Summer originally LaDonna Gaines, is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 December 1959
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Actor Val Kilmer is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 December 1960
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Spree Killer John Allan Muhammad originally John Allan Williams aka The Beltway Sniper, is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.

51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 December 1962
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Patricia Bisette is raped and strangled as eighth victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 24 in Boston Back Bay, 515 Park Drive, Massachusetts, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 December 1966
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Tuula Hoeoek is battered to death by Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, at the age of 21 in St. Clement, Jersey.

46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 December 1967
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An unidentified woman is raped and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Bonheiden, Kasteel van Zellaar, Antwerp, Belgium.

44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 December 1969
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United Mine Workers Union Leader Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock, is shot dead by three unidentified hitmen in his house at the age of 59 in Clarkesville, Pennsylvania, United States.
His wife Margaret and 25-year-old daughter Charlotte were also shot dead. Their bodies were found on 5 January 1970 by his son Kenneth.

37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1976
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82 Die in Libyan airliner crash in Saudi Arabia.

33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 December 1980
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Philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan dies at the age of 69 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1982
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Toshimitsu Ozawa is attacked by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
He survived.

29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 December 1984
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37-year-old Revenger Bernard Hugo Bernie Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante, turns himself in for the shooting of four robbers in a subway train 10 days earlier in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 December 1985
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Musician Eric Hilliard Nelson aka Ricky Nelson, dies in a plane crash at the age of 45 in De Kalb, Texas, United States.

27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 December 1986
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96 Die in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1993
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President Zviad Gamsachoerdia commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 54 in Georgia.

Monday, December 30, 2013

85 Years Ago He Was an Intensified Nothing

422 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1591
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230th Pope Innocentus IX originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, dies at the age of 72 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

148 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1865
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Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.

115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 December 1898
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Musician Umm Kulthum aka The Nightingale of the Nile, is born in Tamay-Az-Zahayra, Egypt.

110 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 1903
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Over 600 Die in Iroquis Theatre fire in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

104 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 December 1909
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Martin is born in Chemnitz, Germany.

103 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 December 1910
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Writer Paul Frederic Bowles is born in Queens, New York, United States.

85 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 December 1928
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Musician Bo Diddley originally Elias Otha Bates, is born in McComb, Mississippi, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 December 1932
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Multiple poisoness Daisy Louisa De Melker Originally Daisy Hancorn-Smith, is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Pretoria, South Africa.
She presumably killed her husband and son. Two more husbands and four children had died suspiciously.

79 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 December 1934
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Singer-songwriter Del Shannon originally Charles Wedon Westover, is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 December 1937
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Child-Murderer Frederick Hodder aka Uncle Fred Hudson, is executed by hanging in Nottingham, Lincoln Prison, United Kingdom.

72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 December 1941
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Artist El Ellasar Markowitsch Lissitsky dies at the age of 51 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1944
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102 Die in train derailment in Mandalay, Myitkyina, Birma.

67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1946
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Musician Patti Patricia Lee Smith is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 December 1947
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Painter and forger Han Henricus Antonius Van Meegeren dies of heart-failure at the age of 58 in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 December 1956
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Art destructor Hugo Unjaga Villegas throws a brick at Leonardo Da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa" in Paris, Le Louvre, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 1959
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Actress Tracy Ullman is born in Slough, United Kingdom.

45 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1968
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Marina Habe is is presumably stabbed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 18 in Mulholland Drive, California, United States.

43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 1970
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World-champion boxing Sonny Liston dies of a probable heroin overdose at the age of 38 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
He was found on 5 January 1971.

39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1974
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Arsonist Murderer Anthony F. Barbaro commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 18 in Olean, New York, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 December 1977
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Robert Donnelly is attacked by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 22 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
He survived.

35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1978
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32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, escapes from the city jail in Aspen, Colorado, United States.

35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1978
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An unidentified man is strangled and drowned by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 1987
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Mass Murderer Robert Dreesman commits suicide at the age of 41 in Algona, Iowa, United States.
He first killed his parents, his sister and her three children.

18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1995
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36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, kills a family of four with a hunting rifle and sets the house on fire in Ukraïne, Russia.

17 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1996
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Over 300 Die in train explosion in India.
It was a terrorist bomb attack.

9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 December 2004
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194 Die in Republica Cromagnon nightclub fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Four of the six doors had been wired shut to keep out "people who would not enter without paying".

9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 December 2004
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Musician and bandleader Artie Shaw originally Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, dies of complications of diabetes at the age of 94 in Thousand Oaks, California, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 2006
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Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging at the age of 69 in Baghdad, Iraq.

4 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 2009
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Double agent and Al-Qaida suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi aka Hamman Khalil Mohammed, commits suicide by blowing himself up at the age of 32 in Khost, Camp Chapman, Afghanistan.
Seven CIA agents who were organising a birthday party for him were blown to pieces as well.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

75 Years Ago the Midnight Cowboy Saw the Light

403 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1610
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50-year-old Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, and her accomplices are arrested in Cachtice, Hungary.

292 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1721
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Courtisane Madame De Pompadour originally Jeann-Antoinette Poisson, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

213 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1800
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Engineer Charles Goodyear is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

205 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1808
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17th president of the USA Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

188 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1825
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Artist Jacques-Louis David is hit by a carriage and dies of deformations to the heart at the age of 77 in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

179 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1834
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Poet Charlotte Stieglitz commits suicide by driving a dagger through her heart at the age of 28 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

148 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1865
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Murderer John Hundley is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.

137 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1876
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92 Die in Pacific Express Train n° 5 derailment in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.
The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The two designers of the bridge committed suicide.

112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 December 1901
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Husband Murderess Emily Swan is executed by hanging in Leeds, Armley Gaol, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1916
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Influencial Monk Grigory Jefimovitsch Novitsch Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is killed by Prince Joesoepov at the age of 47 in Petrograd, Russia.

92 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1921
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Founder of the Solar Lodge division of the Ordo Templis Orientis Georgina Jean Brayton is born in California, United States.

90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 December 1923
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Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is born in Ohio, United States.

87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1926
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Poet Rainer Maria Karl Wilhelm Johann Joseph Rilke dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Valmont, Switzerland.

80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1933
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Quaker Norman Morrison is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.

76 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1937
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Actress Mary Tyler Moore is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1938
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Actor Jon Jonathan Vincent Voight is born in Yonkers, New York, United States.

70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1943
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12-year-old Serial Killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is charged with burglary and committed to the Lyman School for Boys in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 December 1945
(x) Augusta Gein
dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son 39-year-old Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, United States.

67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 December 1946
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Actress Marianne Faithfull is born in Hampstead, United Kingdom.

56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 December 1957
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Judy Dull is is found skeletonised, abducted, assaulted and strangled by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 20 in Thousand Palms, off US Highway 60, California, United States.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1969
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56-year-old Muriel McKay is kidnapped by Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein in Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
She was never found again, probably fed to the Hosein pigs.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1972
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98 Die in Eastern Airlines airliner crash in Miami, Florida, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 December 1973
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Cruz Mestas is is found tortured and killed by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 24 in San Bernardino mountains, California, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1976
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An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in Isleworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1977
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Ambrose Griffin is shot dead by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 52 in Sacramento, Robertson Avenue, California, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1980
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Musician Tim Hardin dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 39 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1986
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Filmmaker Andrei Arseniewitsch Tarkovski dies of lung cancer at the age of 54 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 December 1987
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Over 150 Die in ferry fire in Patvakhali, Bangladesh.

16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1997
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The government starts to kill all 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza in Hong Kong.

12 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 December 2001
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274 Die in massive downtown fire in Lima, Peru.

4 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 December 2009
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British Drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.

Saturday, December 28, 2013

30 Years Ago the Dark Horse Surfed Into the Void

202 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 December 1811
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Multiple Murderer John Williams commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 27.

172 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 December 1841
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Murderess Anna Månsdotter aka The Yngsjö Murderess, is born in Yngsjö, Sweden.

167 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1846
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Iowa becomes the 29th United State of America in Iowa, United States.

157 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 December 1856
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28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia, United States.

125 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1888
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Filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe Murnau is born in Bielefeld, Germany.

123 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 December 1890
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175 Sioux are massacred in Wounded Knee, United States.

89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 December 1924
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Victim of James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-by Murderer, Michael Gregsten is born in Slough, United Kingdom.

88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1925
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Actress and musician Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef is born in Ulm, Germany.

87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 December 1926
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Germania Harpin is raped and strangled as eleventh victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 29 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.
He also killed her 8-month-old child.

82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1931
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Situationist writer and filmmaker Guy Debord is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1934
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X-rays of the pelvic region of 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, reveal 27 needles scattered thoughout the area of his groin and lower abdomen in New York, Grasslands Hospital, New York, United States.

77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1936
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Gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Ennemy n°1, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 December 1937
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Composer Maurice Joseph Ravel dies after brain surgery at the age of 62 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1945
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Writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser dies at the age of 74 in Hollywood, California, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 December 1963
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Composer Paul Hindemuth dies at the age of 68 in Frankfurt, Germany.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 December 1972
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The presumed skeleton of Nazi-leader Martin Bormann is found in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1979
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USSR military forces attack Afghanistan.

34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1979
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Death-Interruption - 1" with Frank De Busscher in Antwerpen, Ruimte Z, Antwerp, Belgium.

30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 December 1983
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Beach Boy Dennis Wilson drowns after diving off a friend’s boat at the age of 39 in Los Angeles, Marina Del Rei, California, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1984
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Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in Inglewood, California, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1984
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Murderer Robert Lee Willie aka Dead Man Walking, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 27 in Angola, Louisiana, United States.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1987
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47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons drives into town and shoots several people in different offices before surrendering without resistance to the police in Russelville, Arkansas, United States.

12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 2001
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Serial Killer Larry Lawrence Singleton dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Florida, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 December 2002
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43-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Parels voor de Zwijnen" in Eernegem, East Flanders, Belgium.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 December 2004
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Writer and activist Susan Sontag originally Susan Rosenblatt, dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Manhattan, New York, United States.

2 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 December 2011
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Chimpanzee Cheetah known from the ‘Tarzan’ movies, dies of kidney failure at the age of 80 in Palm Harbor Suncoast Primate Sanctuary, Florida, United States.

Friday, December 27, 2013

90 Years Ago Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Gave Him Final Relief

296 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 December 1717
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250th Pope Pius VI originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi, is born in Cesena, Italy.

191 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 December 1822
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Scientist Louis Pasteur is born in Dole, France.

168 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 December 1845
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Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, is born in Guterslöh, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

112 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 December 1901
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Actress Marlene Dietrich originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch, is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 December 1923
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Architect and engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel dies at the age of 91 in Paris, Rue Rabelais, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 December 1925
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Writer and lawyer Louis Dosfel dies at the age of 44 in Belgium.

69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 December 1944
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Execution ‘en masse’ of the French Gestapo in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 December 1948
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Actor Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is born in Châteauroux, France.

63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 December 1950
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Artist Max Beckmann dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 December 1957
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Isabelle Cooke is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, at the age of 17 in Burntbroom, Scotland, United Kingdom.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 December 1960
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Multiple Murderer Ricky Lee Green is born in United States.

48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 December 1965
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Serial Killer Jean-Thierry Mathurin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is born in St. Laurent de Maroni, Guyana.

38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 December 1975
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Over 750 Die in coal-mine explosion in Bihar, India.

30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 December 1983
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63-year-old 264th Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Jozef Wojtila, visits his attempted assassin Mehmet Ali Agça in the Rebiba Prison in Rome, Roma, Italy.

30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 December 1983
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An unidentified girl is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.

27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 December 1986
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Steven Fefferman is castrated and stabbed to death by Ricky Green at the age of 29 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 December 2007
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Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto is killed in an al-Qaeda suicide bomb attack at the age of 54 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Some 20 bystanders were also killed in the blast.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 December 2007
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Filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz dies at the age of 85 in Warsaw, Poland.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

120 Years Ago the Founding Father Was Somebody's Son

130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 December 1883
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Artist Maurice Utrillo is born in Paris, Montmartre, Rue du Poteau, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

122 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 December 1891
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Writer Henry Valentine Miller is born in New York, New York, United States.

120 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 December 1893
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Revolutionary leader and architect of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong is born in Shao-Shan, Hunan, China.

114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 December 1899
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Punjabi Revolutionary Udham Singh originally Sher Singh Jammu aka Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, is born in Sangrur Dist, Punjab, India.

97 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 December 1916
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Anna Collomb is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, at the age of 45 in Gambais, France.

93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 December 1920
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Daughter of Aleister Crowley, The Great Beast and Ninette Shumway Fraux, Astarte Lulu Panthea Crowley is born in Thelema Abbey, Sicily, Italy.

63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 December 1950
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Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is born in Salem, Oregon, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 December 1957
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Film pioneer Charles Pathé dies at the age of 94 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

49 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 December 1964
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Lesley Downey is abducted and murdered by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 10 in Manchester, Ancoats, United Kingdom.
Her pleas and screams were recorded on tape, and Brady and Hindley slept a night on a blanket on her grave on Saddleworth Moors.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 December 1972
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33rd president of the USA Harry S. (Shippe or Solomon) Truman dies at the age of 88 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 December 1972
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34-year-old Multiple Murderer Anthony Jackson is arrested after a fight with the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 December 1972
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Eddie Moore is is found garotted by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 21 in 7th Street Intersection, California, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 December 1980
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Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, commits suicide by drug overdose at the age of 30 in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.
He saved up his daily dose of Sinequan (doxepin hydrochloride) for 3 weeks.

30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 December 1983
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Martina Volkmann is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 20 in Bremen, Germany.

26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 December 1987
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Murderer Franciscus V. commits suicide by drowning at the age of 84 in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
He first strangled his 79-year-old wife Maria.

26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 December 1987
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47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons kills his son Billy and wife Renata, their son Trae and daughter, his daughter Sheila and husband Dennis McNulty, his incestuous daughter Sylvia Gail and grandson Michael in Dover, Arkansas, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 December 1996
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Child Beauty Queen JonBenet Patricia Ramsey is sexually assaulted and strangled by persons unknown at the age of 6 in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 December 2006
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38th president of the USA Gerald Rudolph Ford dies of pneumonia at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California, United States.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

15 Years Ago He Was a Jolly Good Fellow in the Moonshine

1218 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 795
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95th Pope Hadrianus I dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.

150 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1863
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Film pioneer Charles Pathé is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

135 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 December 1878
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Racer and founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company Louis-Joseph Chevrolet is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

131 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1882
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Make-up queen Helena Chaja Rubinstein is born in Krakow, Poland.

128 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1885
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Actor John Bowers originally John E Bowersox, is born in Garrett, Indiana, United States.

126 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1887
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Hotel-magnate Conrad Nicholson Sr. Hilton is born in Socorro County, New Mexico, United States.

122 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1891
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Julia Connor is murdered by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Chicago, Holmes Castle, Illinois, United States.

120 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1893
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Murderess Edith Jessie Thompson originally Graydon, is born in London, Dalston, London City of, United Kingdom.

116 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 December 1897
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Mary Spink is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

114 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1899
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Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart is born in New York City, New York, United States.

105 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1908
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Raconteur Quentin Crisp originally Denis Charles Pratt, is born in Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom.

102 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1911
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Artist Louise Bourgeois is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1914
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Murderer Grady B. Cole is born in Arizona, United States.

95 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 December 1918
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President Anwar Al Sadat is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt.

89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 December 1924
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Twilight Zone host Rod Rodman Edward Serling is born in Syracuse, New York, United States.

88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1925
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Writer Carlos Castaneda is born in Cajamarca, Peru.

73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 December 1940
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Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, is born in The Bronx, New York, United States.

67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 December 1946
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Filmmaker W.C. Fields dies of a stomach-bleeding at the age of 66 in Pasadena, California, United States.

64 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1949
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Actress Sissy Spacek is born in Quitman, Texas, United States.

61 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 December 1952
(x)
47-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the State Hospital in Arizona, United States.
It’s her sixth attempt to escape, she is recaptured 46 hours later.

54 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1959
(-)
Irmgard Feder is attacked and mutilated by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 19 in Freberg, Germany.
She survived.

52 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1961
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Son of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, Mike Kallinger is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 December 1971
(x)
163 Die in Taejongak Hotel fire in Seoul, Korea.

36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1977
(-)
Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin dies at the age of 88 in Vaud, Switzerland.

36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1977
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Double agent and Al-Qaida suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi aka Hamman Khalil Mohammed, is born in Kuwait.

31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 December 1982
(-)
John R. Johnson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 25 in Belshaw, Indiana, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1983
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Son of Tex Watson of the Manson Family and Joan Svege, Benjamin Charles Watson is born in Texas, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1983
(-)
Artist Juan Mirò dies of heart-insufficiency at the age of 90 in Palma, Mallorca, Spain.

24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1989
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Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 71 in Romania.
He and his 70-year-old wife Elena had been sentenced to death by a People’s Court.

18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1995
(-)
Actor Dean Martin originally Dino Crocetti aka The King of Cool, dies of lung cancer at the age of 78 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1998
(x)
53-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is found drunk in his prison cell in Cambridgeshire, Whitemoor Prison, United Kingdom.
It is thought he had been bingeing on homemade moonshine.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
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Musician James Joseph Brown aka The Godfather of Soul, dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-)
Murderer Yoshimitsu Akiyama is executed by hanging at the age of 77 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-)
Murderer Hiroaki Hidaka is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hiroshima, Japan.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-)
Murderer Yoshio Fujinami is executed by hanging at the age of 75 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-)
Murderer Michio Fukuoka is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Osaka, Japan.

4 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 2009
(x)
23-year-old Terrorist Umar Farouk Abulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber, attempts to detonate PETN and TAPN plastic explosives hidden in his underwear aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

125 Years Ago Il a Demandé à Rachel de Garder cet Objet Soigneusement

522 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 December 1491
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Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola is born in Loyola, Italy.

489 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1524
(-)
Explorer Vasco da Gama dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Kochi, India.

204 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1809
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Trapper Christopher “Kit” Houston Carson is born in Madison County, Kentucky, United States.

128 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 December 1885
(-)
Mrs Rooney dies of spontaneous human combustion in Ottawa, Illinois, United States.

127 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 December 1886
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Aristocrat and patient of Sigmund Freud Sergei Konstantonowitch Pankejev aka Der Wolfsmann, is born in Odessa, Russia.

125 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 December 1888
(x)
35-year-old Artist Vincent Van Gogh cuts off the lob of his left ear in Arles, Rue du Bout d'Aeles, France.
He supposedly gave it to a prostitute named Rachel.

108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1905
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Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1913
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Artist Ad Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt is born in New York, New York, United States.

91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1922
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Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner is born in Brogden, North Carolina, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 December 1932
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Artist On Kawara is born in Kariya, Japan.

78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 December 1935
(-)
Composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg dies of blood poisoning due to an insect bite at the age of 50 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1939
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Serial Killer Dean Arnold Corll aka The Candyman, is born in Fort Wayne, Waynedale, Indiana, United States.

72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1941
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Murderer Robert Lee Massie is born in California, United States.

60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 December 1953
(x)
155 Die in North Island Main Trunk express train derailment in Tangiwai, New Zealand.
The train plunged into the Whangaehu River.

52 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1961
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Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng is born in Hong Kong.

50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 December 1963
(-)
Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, dies at the age of 67 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 December 1966
(-)
Janina Kozielska is slashed to ribbons by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Poland.
The body was found on the night-train from Krakow to Warsaw.

47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 December 1966
(x)
129 Die in US military CL-44 crash in South Vietnam.

44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1969
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Serial Killer Stephen Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal, is born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 December 1974
(-)
Ernst Dorf is is beaten to death with a stone by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 59 in Gifhorn, Germany.

38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1975
(x)
22-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, attacks 2 unidentified girls with a knife in New York, New York, United States.
They both survived.

38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1975
(-)
Composer Bernard Herrmann dies of cardio-vascular disease at the age of 64 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 December 1976
(-)
An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 85 in London, Mayfair, London City of, United Kingdom.

35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1978
(-)
Andrew Robinson is stabbed to death by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 13 in Gifhorn, Germany.

34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 December 1979
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Student-leader Rudi Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke dies of drowning after an epileptic seizure while in his bathtub at the age of 39 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Because of massive brain damage from an assassination attempt on 11 april 1968 he continued to suffer health problems which finally led to his death.

33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1980
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Commander of the Kriegsmarine and successor of the Führer, Karl Donitz dies at the age of 89 in Aumühle, Germany.

31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 December 1982
(-)
Writer Luis Aragon dies at the age of 85 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1995
(x)
36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, kills the Zaichenkos, a family of four, with a hunting rifle in Ukraïne, Russia.

5 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 2008
(-)
Dramatist Harold Pinter dies of liver cancer at the age of 78 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

Monday, December 23, 2013

65 Years Ago He Died with a New Set of Dentures

208 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 December 1805
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Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Jr. Smith is born in Sharon, Vermont, United States.

123 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 December 1890
(-)
Murderess Mary Pearcey is executed by hanging in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 December 1925
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Ex-Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy is born in Déville-lès-Rouen, France.

87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 December 1926
(-)
Murderer Petrus Stephanus François Hauptfleisch is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He killed his mother.

87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 December 1926
(-)
Bonnie Pace is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 23 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

85 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 December 1928
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Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook is born in Joplin, Missouri, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 December 1932
(x)
31-year-old Wife of Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels originally Johanna Maria Magdalena Behrend, has a miscarriage in München, Bayern, Germany.

72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 December 1941
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Musician Tim Hardin is born in Eugene, Oregon, United States.

65 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 December 1948
(-)
Prime Minister Hideko Tojo is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Tokyo, Sugamo Prison, Japan.
6 more officals are hanged for war-crimes.

61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 December 1952
(-)
Murderer Leslie Green is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1961
(x)
70 Die in train derailment in Italy.

41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1972
(-)
Airplane designer Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev dies at the age of 84 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1978
(x)
Start of the excavations in the house of 36-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Chicago, Des Plaines, Norwood Park, Summerdale 8213, Illinois, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 December 1979
(-)
Art collector Peggy Marguerite Guggenheim dies at the age of 81 in Padua, Italy.
She is buried in the garden of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni next to her beloved dogs.

29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 December 1984
(x)
15 die in a fascist bomb-attack on the Naples-Milan express in Italy.

28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 December 1985
(-)
Hard Rock lover Ray Belknap commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 18 in Sparks, Nevada, United States.
He engaged in a suicide pact with a friend after listening intensively to Judas Priest albums.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 December 1987
(x)
39-year-old Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, escapes from prison in Alderson, West-Virginia, United States.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 December 1987
(x)
15-year-old Adagiso Scioni hi-jacks a KLM Boeing 737 between Amsterdam and Milan, but is arrested on arrival in Rome, Roma, Italy.

24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1989
(-)
Darlene Trippi is beaten to death by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 32 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, United States.

18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1995
(x)
The charred bodies of 16 members of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, are found. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning or had been shot to death in Grenoble, France.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 December 1997
(x)
The New Year, a two-story houseboat where Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, shot himself through the head, days after killing Gianni Versace in july, sinks to the bottom of Indian Creek in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

130 Years Ago the Stratospheric Colossus of Sound Saw the Light

374 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 December 1639
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Dramatist Jean Racine is born in La Ferté-Milon, Aisne, France.

275 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1738
(-)
Prostitute Constantia Jones is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Tyburn, United Kingdom.
She had stolen 36 shillings from a client.

155 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1858
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Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michale Secondo Puccini is born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.

137 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1876
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Artist Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is born in Alexandria, Egypt.

130 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 1883
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Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

111 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1902
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Psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing known for “Psychopathia Sexualis”, dies at the age of 62 in Graz, Austria.

87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1926
(-)
John Bernard is raped and strangled as tenth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Council Bluffs, Ohio, United States.

77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 December 1936
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Victim of the Manson Family, Wojciech Frykowski is born in Lodz, Poland.

74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1939
(x)
132 Die in train collision in Magdeburg, Germany.

67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 December 1946
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Wife of Jim, Pam Susan Courson Morrison is born in Weed, California, United States.

64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 December 1949
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Musicians Maurice & Robin Gibb aka the Bee Gees, are born in Douglas, Isle of Man.

60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 December 1953
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Rapist and Murderer Alfred Charles Whiteway is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 December 1960
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Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 December 1963
(x)
128 Die in TSMS Lakonia fire in Madeira, Portugal.

47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 December 1966
(-)
Ilona Harke is abducted and killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 5 in Wuppertal-Bredeney, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He also cut some steaks from the body for later consumption.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1969
(-)
Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg originally Jonas Stern, dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1971
(x)
66-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is released on parole after 39 year imprisonment in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1971
(-)
Ida Van Isacker-Smeets is assaulted, strangled, mutilated and raped by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 47 in Mechelen, Hanswijk, Dijleoever, Antwerp, Belgium.

42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1971
(x)
Four members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, rob the Hypotheken- und Wechselbank at Fackelstrasse of over 100.000 marks in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Policeman Herbert Schoner was shot dead when he tried to stop the getaway car.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1972
(x)
22 survivors of a plane crash are found in the Andes Mountains, Chile.
They survived on cannibalism.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1972
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Musician Vanessa Chantal Paradis is born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 1973
(-)
Teresa Walsh is presumably strangled as forty-fourth victim by Zodiac at the age of 23 in Santa Rosa, California, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1975
(x)
431 Die in coal-mine explosion in Tjashalla, India.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1975
(-)
Suzanne Bach is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 17 in Weinheim, Germany.
She survived.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1975
(-)
Connie Bronzich is drugged and stabbed to death by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, at the age of 28 in Katmandu, Nepal.

35 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1978
(-)
Lenotschka Sakotnowa is stabbed and strangled as first victim by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Schachty, Meshewoi 26, Russia.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1982
(x)
37-year-old Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, abducts and sexually assaults 2 15-year-old girls on a beach in New South Wales, Australia.
They survived.

29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 1984
(x)
37-year-old Revenger Bernard Hugo Bernie Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante, shoots 19-year-old Troy Canty, 19-year-old Darrel Cabey, 19-year-old Barry Allen and 18-year-old Jimmy Ramseur, who were trying to rob him in the Seventh Avenue 2 subway train in New York, Harlem, New York, United States.

27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1986
(-)
Lisa Thomas is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1986
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Terrorist Umar Farouk Abulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber, is born in Lagos, Nigeria.

26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 December 1987
(x)
47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons kills his wife Rebecca, his children Gene, 17-year-old Loretta, Eddy, Marianne and Becky, and his granddaughter 3-year-old Barbara by shooting, strangling and drowning them in Dover, Arkansas, United States.

24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1989
(-)
Writer Samuel Beckett dies of respiratory insufficiency at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 December 1992
(x)
157 Die in Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 and helicopter collision in Libya.

17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 December 1996
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Jacqueline Leclercq is presumably abducted as fourth victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 33 in Hyon, Rue Malapert, Hainaut, Belgium.

16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1997
(x)
Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial Killer Ahmad Suraji aka Nasib Datuk Kalewang aka The Sorcerer, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
He stands trial for the murders of 42 women whom he ‘treated’ as a sorcerer, this involved the drinking of their saliva, and strangling them while half buried.

16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1997
(x)
48-year-old Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

12 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 2001
(x)
28-year-old Terrorist Richard Colvin Reid aka Abdul Raheem aka The Shoebomber, attempts to blow up the American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami Boeing 767 by use of PETN explosives hidden in his shoe.

6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 2007
(x)
61-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is stabbed in the face by a fellow inmate in Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Sutcliffe was already blind in one eye after a previous attack.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

35 Years Ago There Was no Room Left in His Crawl Space

331 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 December 1682
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Pirate John Rackham aka Calico Jack, is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.

138 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 December 1875
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Murderer Henry Wainwright is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
On the scaffold he shouted: “Come to see a man die, have you, you curs?”.

107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 1906
(-)
Murderer Henry Hose is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Oregon, United States.

102 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 December 1911
(x)
Bank messenger Ernest Caby is robbed and shot by 35-year-old Gangster Jules Bonnot and his gang in Paris, rue Orderer, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
It is the first hold-up ever to make use of a getaway-car.

96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 1917
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Writer Heinrich Theodor Böll is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 December 1918
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Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim is born in Vienna, Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Wien, Austria.

78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 December 1935
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Writer Kurt Tucholski aka Kaspar Hauser aka Peter Panter aka Theobald Tiger, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 45 in Hindas, Gothenburg, Germany.

77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 December 1936
(x)
31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse in Tokyo, Japan.

76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 December 1937
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Actress Jane Fonda is born in New York, New York, United States.

73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 December 1940
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Composer Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 December 1940
(-)
Writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Hollywood, California, United States.
He died in the apartment of his friend, Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.

72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 December 1941
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Triple murderer Alberto Ignacio Ortiz is born in Arizona, United States.

71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 December 1942
(-)
Murderer Henry John Delves Boughton aka Sir Murder, commits suicide by drug-overdose in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 1945
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War leader George Patton aka Old Blood and Guts, dies of embolism at the age of 60 in Heidelberg, military hospital, Germany.
He had been thrown forward and smashed his head into a metal part when the Cadillac Model 75 he was sitting in crashed into a 2 1/2 ton military truck.

62 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 1951
(x)
119 Die in coal-mine explosion in West-Frankfurt, Illinois, United States.

61 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 December 1952
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Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is born in Illinois, United States.

59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 December 1954
(x)
31-year-old Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his pregnant wife Marilyn in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 December 1967
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Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, David C. Thomas is born in United States.

46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 December 1967
(-)
Heart-patient Louis Washkansky dies at the age of 55 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He was the first man who had a transplanted heart.

36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 December 1977
(x)
37-year-old Serial Killer Patrick Kearney aka The Thrash Bag Killer, pleads guilty to three counts of murder and is sentenced to life imprisonment in Riverside, California, United States.

35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 December 1978
(x)
36-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is placed under arrest as a suspect in the abduction of Robert Piest in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 December 1987
(x)
1586 Die in Dona Paz passenger ferry and Vector oil tanker collision in Tablas Strait, the Philippines.
The ferry was overcrowded and probably over 4000 people died.

25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 December 1988
(x)
270 Die in Pan Am Flight 103 Boeing 747-121 crash in Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom.
The plane was sabotaged by Libyan terrorists.

6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 2007
(x)
The remains of Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan are exhumed for re-burial in Coburg, Pentridge Prison, Victoria, Australia.
He was the last man to be hanged in Australia in 1967. The site of the former prison was redeveloped for commercial and residential use.

3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 December 2010
(x)
41-year-old Serial Killer Stephen Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal, is sentenced to life imprionment for three murders in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Friday, December 20, 2013

40 Years Ago He Didn't Order Duck Mandarin

213 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1800
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Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is born in Francheville, Rhône, France.

137 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 December 1876
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Murderess Hannah Ocuish aka Omish, is executed by hanging at the age of 12 in New London, Connecticut, United States.
She is the youngest person ever hanged in the USA.

112 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1901
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Bock is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

102 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 December 1911
(-)
Murderer Wade Hood is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in South Carolina, United States.

93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1920
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Eventual Serial Killer Joseph Mumfry is shot dead by Mrs Mike Pepitone in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He was recognised as being the Axe Man of New Orleans by Mrs Pepitone, wife of one of his victims.

89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1924
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Serial Killer Carl Denke commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 54 in Münsterberg, Silesia, Germany.
He was arrested after attacking Vincenz Oliver with a hackblade during dinner. When police searched his house, they found drums with salted meat and written notes about 20 years of murder and cannibalism.

89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1924
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35-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving 9 months for his attempt at a coup d’état a year earlier in Berlin, Landsberg Prison, Berlin, Germany.
While in prison, he wrote "Mein Kampf".

86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 December 1927
(x)
33-year-old Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess marries 27-year-old Ilse Pröhl in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1941
(x)
Belgium declares war to Italy.

67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1946
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Psychic Uri György Geller is born in Tel Aviv, Israël.

65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1948
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Musician Alan Parsons is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1958
(-)
Mary Hattam is assaulted and battered to death by Rupert Stuart aka The Murderous Aboriginal, at the age of 9 in Ceduna, Australia.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 December 1960
(x)
49-year-old Last Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer is arrested in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1963
(x)
Start of the trial against 21 guards and doctors of Auschwitz-KZ in Frankfurt, Germany.

45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1968
(-)
Writer John Ernst Steinbeck dies of heart disease and congestive heart failure at the age of 66 in New York, New York, United States.

45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1968
(-)
David Faraday and 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen are shot dead as second and third victim by Zodiac at the age of 17 in Vallejo, California, United States.

44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1969
(x)
Serial Killer Zodiac sends a ‘Happy Christmas’ postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and adds a scrap of eight victim Paul Stine’s bloody shirt in California, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 December 1973
(-)
Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco is killed in an ETA bomb-attack in Spain.

40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 December 1973
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Musician Bobby Darin originally Walden Robert Cassotto, dies minutes after initially succesful heart surgery to repair two artificial heart valves at the age of 37 in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1974
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Composer André Jolivet dies at the age of 69 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1975
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Susan Bickrest is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Port Orange, Spruce Creek, Florida, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1976
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41-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Honka is convicted to 15 years imprisonment and sent to a mental asylum for life in Hamburg, Germany.

34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 December 1979
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Perfectone" in Gent, Zaal Cercle, East Flanders, Belgium.

32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 December 1981
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Beatrix Scheble is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 16 in Frankfurt City Park, Germany.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1982
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Composer Arthur Rubinstein dies at the age of 95 in Genève, Switzerland.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1982
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Steven Agan is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 23 in Newport, Indiana, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 December 1983
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Hedda Buekow is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.

28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1985
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Estelle Donjoux is tortured and killed as ninth by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 91 in Paris 14th, 14 rue Lacaze, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 December 1987
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Over 2500 Die in Dona Paz Ferry shipwreck in Tablas Strait, Philippines.

20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1993
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Serial Killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, is sentenced to 5 terms of life-imprisonment in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 December 1995
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160 Die in American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757-223 crash into a mountain in Buga, Colombia.
Four people survived.

17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1996
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Futurologist Carl Edward Sagan dies of pneumonia at the age of 62 in Seattle, Washington, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 2003
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44-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Trop = Teveel" in Antwerpen, outside M_hka, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

165 Years Ago She Never Knew Moments So Dark As These

643 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1370
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200th Pope Urbanus V originally Guillaume de Grimoard, dies at the age of 61 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

165 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 December 1848
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Writer Emily Jane Brontë dies of a bad cold and tuberculosis at the age of 30 in Haworth, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

162 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 December 1851
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Artist William Joseph Mallord Turner dies at the age of 76 in London, Chelsea, Cheyne Walk, London City of, United Kingdom.
He is said to have uttered the last words "The sun is God" before expiring.

130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1883
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Hendrik Frankenhuizen is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, Netherlands.

107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1906
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Statesman Leonid Ilyitsj Breshnev is born in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraïne, Russia.

106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 December 1907
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239 Die in coal-mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, United States.

103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 December 1910
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Writer and thief Jean Genet is born in Paris, Maternité de la Rue d’Assas 22, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 December 1915
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Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
Somewhere in the street, on a policeman’s coat.

98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 December 1915
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Neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer dies of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany.

88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1925
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Black Lindsey Coleman is lynched because he wasn’t guilty of murder in Clarksdale, Missouri, United States.

88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1925
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Composer Jose Ignacio Quinton dies at the age of 44 in Puerto Rico.

82 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1931
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34-year-old Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels marries Johanna Maria Magdalena ‘Engelchen’ Behrend in Severin, Germany.

79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1934
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Husband Murderess Ethel Lille Major is executed by hanging in Hull Prison, United Kingdom.

67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 December 1946
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Mrs. G. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 44 in Braunschweig, Germany.

57 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1956
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57-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested on suspicion of four murders in Lewes, United Kingdom.

54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1959
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Jillian Brewer is stabbed and hacked to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 22 in Perth, Cottesloe, Stirling Highway, Australia.

49 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1964
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Christiane Herreman is raped and strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 21 in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 December 1968
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Nora Wenzl is slashed to ribbons by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 14 in Staffelstein, Germany.

42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 December 1971
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Barbara Fields is abducted, assaulted and raped by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 18 in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
She survived.

38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 December 1975
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27-year-old Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the attempted assassination of president Ford in Sacramento, California, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 December 1977
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John Swint is shot dead by Ottis Toole aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 67 in Houston, Texas, United States.

18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 December 1995
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A search of the house of 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux fails to discover 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo who are kept in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle, Hainaut, Belgium.

17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 December 1996
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Actor Marcello Mastroianni dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 December 1997
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16-year-old Serial Killer Ershov is arrested after a 34-year-old woman managed to escape following an attack in a city park in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
During police interrogation, Ershov confessed to killing two of the five women murdered in Losiny Ostrov park over a two-month period.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 December 1997
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104 Die in SilkAir Flight 185 Boeing 737-300 crash in Palembang, Indonesia.
Due to the high speed, the entire aircraft and passengers disintegrated upon impact.

13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 December 2000
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Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.