Saturday, November 30, 2013

60 Years Ago Il Disait Dada au Monde

365 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1648
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Philosopher and Women’s Rights defender Sor Juana originally Ines de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramirez, is born in San Miguel Mepantla, Mexico.

346 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1667
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Writer Jonathan Swift is born in Dublin, Ireland.

239 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1774
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Highwayman Jack Rann aka 16-String Jack, is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, London City of, United Kingdom.

203 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1810
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Gunsmith Oliver Winchester is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

189 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 November 1824
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Forger Henry Fauntleroy Esq. is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

178 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1835
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Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is born in Florida, Missouri, United States.

139 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1874
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Politician Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is born in Woodstock, United Kingdom.

128 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1885
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Wife-Murderer Robert Goodale is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Norwich Castle, United Kingdom.

113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1900
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Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde dies of meningitis at the age of 46 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

105 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1908
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154 Die in coal mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, United States.

95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1918
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Actor Efrem Zimbalist is born in New York, New York, United States.

90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1923
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Marxist and Labour leader John MacLean dies of pneumonia at the age of 44 in Pollockshaws, Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
"Broken in health, but not in spirit."

88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1925
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Murderer W. R. Lloyd is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, United States.

77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1936
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Anarchist Abie Abbott Howard Hoffman is born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 November 1937
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Cyclist Tom Simpson is born in Haswell, Durham, United Kingdom.

76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 November 1937
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Filmmaker Ridley Scott is born in South Shields, United Kingdom.

73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1940
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Viennese Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 November 1941
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War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is born in Tikrit, Iraq.

67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1946
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and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ralf Baptist Friedrich is born in Landsweiler-Reden, Germany.

60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1953
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Artist Francis Picabia dies at the age of 74 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1955
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Musician Billy Idol originally William Michael Broad, is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1956
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Rapist and murderer James Bowman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1957
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Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, attacks an unidentified 29-year-old nurse in Monte à l’Abbé, Jersey.

56 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1957
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IRA-member Thomas McElwee originally Tomas Mac Giolla Bhuidhe, is born in Bellaghy, Londonderry, Ireland.

51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1962
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Murderer Lowell Lee Andrews is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, United States.

51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1962
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Oskar Seidel is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Neuhaus, Sparkasse, Germany.

32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1981
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Jim Griffin is handcuffed and severely beaten up by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, North Dearborn Street, Illinois, United States.
He survived.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1987
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Writer James Baldwin dies of esophageal cancer at the age of 63 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.

24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 November 1989
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Director of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen is blown to pieces in his armoured Mercedes-Benz by Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 59 in Bad Homborg, Germany.

24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 November 1989
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37-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Verena Becker is released from prison in Willich, Germany.

19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1994
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Situationist writer and filmmaker Guy Debord commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 62 in Champot, France.

19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1994
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23-year-old Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac, is shot twice in the head, twice in the groin and once in the arm by two unidentified robbers in Manhattan, Quad Recording Studios, New York, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1996
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Musician Herbert Buckingham Khaury aka Tiny Tim, dies at the age of 64 in Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, United States.
While playing "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis he suffered a heart attack on stage. He was led out by his wife, Susan Marie Gardner, who asked him if he was okay. Tim responded, "No, I'm not!" Those were to be his final words. He collapsed shortly thereafter and was rushed to a hospital where he died after doctors tried to resuscitate him for an hour and fifteen minutes.

16 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 November 1997
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Poet, novelist and performance artist Kathy Acker dies of breast cancer at the age of 50 in Tijuana, Mexico.

12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 2001
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Murderer John Hardy Rose is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 2007
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Daredevil Evel Robert Craig Knievel dies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 69 in Clearwater, Florida, United States.

Friday, November 29, 2013

210 Years Ago Kam Die Dehnung Eines Signals bei Veränderungen des Abstands Zwischen Sender und Empfänger Während der Dauer des Signals

1272 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 November 741
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Pope Gregorius III dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.

745 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 November 1268
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Pope Clementius IV originally Guy Faucoi le Gros, dies in Viterbo, Italy.

370 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 November 1643
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Composer Claudio Monteverdi dies at the age of 76 in Venice, Italy.

210 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 November 1803
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Child-Murderer Caleb Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in Windham, Connecticut, United States.

210 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 November 1803
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Physicist Johann Christian Andreas Doppler is born in Salzburg, Austria.

187 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 November 1826
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Highwayman James Boyce from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

187 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 November 1826
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Highwayman James Goulby from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

187 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 November 1826
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Highwayman Robert King from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

187 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 November 1826
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Highwayman George Nicholls from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

187 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 November 1826
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Highwayman John Robinson from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

154 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 November 1859
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Serial Killer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster, is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

133 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 November 1880
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Murderer Thomas Wheeler is executed by hanging in London, St Alban's Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

132 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 November 1881
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Murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton aka The Chinless Killer, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Lewes, Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.

119 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 November 1894
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Murderer Thomas Richards is executed by hanging in Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom.

89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 November 1924
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Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michale Secondo Puccini dies of throat cancer at the age of 65 in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 November 1933
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Musician John Mayall is born in Macclesfield, United Kingdom.

80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 November 1933
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Pop artist James Rosenquist is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.

73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 November 1940
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Singer-songwiter Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty is born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

66 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 November 1947
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Peace activist and founder of ‘Die Grünen’, the German Green Party Petra Karin Kelly is born in Günzburg, Germany.

62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 November 1951
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46-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the State Hospital in Arizona, United States.
It’s her fourth escape, she is captured a few hours later.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 November 1963
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118 Die in Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 Douglas DC-8 crash in Montreal, St. Therese, Canada.

42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 November 1971
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49-year-old ALDI founder Theodor Paul Albrecht is kidnapped by Hans Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Kron in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He was released 17 days later after paying a ransom of seven million DM.

40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 November 1973
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101 Die in department store fire in Kumamoto, Japan.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 November 1974
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40-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof is sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for taking part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 November 1975
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World Champion Formule 1 Racing, Graham Hill crashes in a Piper Aztec airplane at the age of 46 in London, Arkley Golf Course, London City of, United Kingdom.
Five more members of his team also die.

33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 November 1980
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21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "This Week I Was Beaten Up - 2" and "Eternity Forever - 2" with The Simpletones at Mixage Festival in Utrecht, Schouwburg, Netherlands.

32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 November 1981
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Actress Natalie Wood originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko later Gurdin, commits suicide by drowning at the age of 43 in Santa Catalina Island, California, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 November 1983
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Serial Killer Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, is arrested while raping an unidentified girl in Bockenheim, Germany.

27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 November 1986
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Sandra Lindsay is abducted and chained down by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, 3520 North Marshall Street, Pennsylvania, United States.
She survived.

27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 November 1986
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Actor Cary Grant dies of a stroke at the age of 82 in Davenport, Iowa, United States.

26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 November 1987
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115 Die in Korean Airlines Flight 858 Boeing 707 explosion in Bay of Bengal, Birma.
The plane was supposed to be sabotaged.

26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 November 1987
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24-year-old Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is arrested in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 November 1995
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Rapist and murderer Anthony Larette is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 November 1996
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Minimal Artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin dies at the age of 63 in Riverhead, New York, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 November 1998
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Mass Murderer Seth Privacky kills his 50-year-old parents Stephen C. and Linda Privacky, his 78-year-old grandfather John J. Privacky and his 19-year-old brother and his girlfriend Jedediah J. Privacky and April A. Boss in Muskegon, Michigan, United States.

12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 November 2001
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Beatle George Harrison aka L’Angelo Misterioso, dies of lung cancer at the age of 58 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 November 2010
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Filmmaker Mario Monicelli commits suicide by jumping out of a hospital window at the age of 95 in Rome, San Giovanni hospital, Roma, Italy.
He was admitted with prostate cancer a few days before.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

50 Years Ago Il Venait avec la Pleine Lune

256 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1757
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Poet and artist William Blake is born in London, England.

193 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1820
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Philosopher Friedrich Engels is born in Barmen, Prussia, Germany.

132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1881
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Writer Stefan Zweig is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1881
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Murderer John Aspinal Simpson is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

131 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1882
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Murderer Edward Wheatfill is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in York Castle, United Kingdom.

126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1887
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Murderer Enoch Wadley is executed by hanging in Gloucester, United Kingdom.

120 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1893
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Murderer Emanuel Hamar is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

118 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 November 1895
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Sportsman James Franklin Duryea wins the first automobile race, which took place between Chicago and Waukegan in Illinois, United States.

114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1899
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Murderer Charles Scott is executed by hanging in Reading Gaol, United Kingdom.

106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 November 1907
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Writer Alberto Pincherle Moravia aka Il Conformista, is born in Rome, Roma, Italy.

105 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 November 1908
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Philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss is born in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

102 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1911
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Murderer Herbert Cooper lies down on the railway track and is decapitated in High Gate, Crouch End, United Kingdom.

76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 November 1937
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Raymond Lesobre is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, in Saint Cloud, Villa Mon Playsir, France.

71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 November 1942
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492 Die in Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 November 1942
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Murderess Toni Jo Henry originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.
She killed a man to steal his car and became the first woman executed in the Louisiana electric chair.

70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 November 1943
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Musician Randy Newman is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 November 1947
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General and WWII hero Philippe de Hautecloque Leclerc dies in an airplane crash at the age of 45 in Colomb-Béchar, Algeria.

63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1950
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Murderer James Henry Corbett is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 November 1958
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18-year-old Murderer Lowell Lee Andrews shoots his father, mother and sister to become a ‘hired gun’, and inherit the family’s property in Wolcott, Kansas, United States.

51 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 November 1962
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Murderer James Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 November 1963
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Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is born in Fort-de-France, Martinique.

50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 November 1963
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Double murderer Jesus Ledesma Aguilar is born in Mexico.

42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 November 1971
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Prime minister Wasfi Tel is assassinated by Black September at the age of 51 in Jordania.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1972
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Murderer Roger Bontemps is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1972
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Murderer Claude Buffet is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 39 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 November 1976
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44-year-old Harry De La Roche Sr., 51-year-old Mary Jane, 15-year-old Ronald and 12-year-old Eric are shot dead by 18-year-old Mass-murderer Harry William Frederick De La Roche jr. in Montvale, 23 East Grand Avenue, New Jersey, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1977
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Lauren Wagner is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 18 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 November 1979
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257 Die in Air New Zealand sightseeing Flight 901 McDonnel-Douglas DC-10-30 crash in Antarctica.
It collided with Mount Erebus volcano.

33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 November 1980
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21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Hear/See" at Mixage Festival in Breda, De Beyerd, Netherlands.

26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 November 1987
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159 Die in South African Airways Flight 295 Boeing 747-244B Combi crash in the Indian Ocean.

19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1994
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Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is beaten to death with a bar from the weight room by fellow-inmate Christopher Scarver, while cleaning the toilets and showers in a maximum security jail at the age of 34 in Portage, Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium, Wisconsin, United States.
In the same event murderer Jesse Anderson was also beaten to death.

19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1994
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Great Train Robber Buster Edwards commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 November 1997
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72-year-old Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, resigns as prime minister of Britain in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 November 2001
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Murderer Xin Baojun is executed at the age of 44 in the N°1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing, China.
He became acquainted with a woman surnamed Zhang via a local marriage agent and later murdered her and stole 3.000 yuan worth of her property.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

35 Years Ago He Was Perhaps the Most Hated Man in San Francisco's History

312 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 November 1701
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Astronomer Anders Celsius is born in Uppsala, Sweden.

263 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 November 1750
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Traitor Thomas Reynolds is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, London City of, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1821
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Robber Andrew Ferris is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1821
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Forger Joseph Smith is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

170 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 November 1843
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Victim of Jack the Ripper, Elisabeth Stride-Gustaafsdochter aka Long Liz, is born in Göteborg, Sweden.

136 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1877
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Murderer James Satchell is executed by hanging in Leicester, United Kingdom.

136 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1877
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Murderer John William Swift is executed by hanging in Leicester, United Kingdom.

136 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1877
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Murderer John Upton is executed by hanging in Leicester, United Kingdom.

119 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1894
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Wife-Murderer James Wilshaw Whitehead is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

116 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 November 1897
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Mafia Leader Vito Genovese aka Don Vito, is born in Naples, Italy.

112 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 November 1901
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Automobile Pioneer Clement Studebaker dies of natural causes at the age of 70 in South Bend, Indiana, United States.

107 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1906
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Wife-Murderer Edward Hartigan is executed by hanging at the age of 58 in Knutsford Gaol, United Kingdom.

84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 November 1929
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An unidentified man is burned to death by Kurt Tetzner aka The Murderer Who Died Twice, in Ettershausen, Germany.

81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 November 1932
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Opposition-leader Benigno “Ninoy” Simeon Aquino is born in Concepcion, the Fillipines.

79 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1934
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Gangster George Nelson originally Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face, is shot dead by FBI gunmen at the age of 25 in Barrington, Illinois, United States.
FBI agents Herman Hollis and Samuel P. Cowley also die in the shootout.

73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 November 1940
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Actor, filmmaker and King of Kung Fu Bruce Lee Siu Loong originally Lee Yuen Kam, aka The Little Dragon, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 November 1942
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Musician Jimi Johnny Allen Hendrix is born in Seattle, Washington, United States.

58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 November 1955
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Composer Arthur Oscar Honegger dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 1962
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97 Die in Varig Boeing 707 crash in Lima, Peru.

43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 November 1970
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73-year-old 262nd Pope Paul VI originally Giovanni Battista Montini, is attacked with a knife by artist Mendoza in Manila, the Fillipines.

38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 November 1975
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Hakim Vitali aka Ved, is drugged, tortured, his neck broken, doused with petrol and set on fire by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, in Pattaya Beach, Thailand.

35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 November 1978
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41-year-old Mayor George Moscone and 48-year-old Public Supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Bernard Milk are assassinated by their colleague Dan White at the age of 48 in San Francisco, City Hall offices, California, United States.
White claimed to be ‘high on junk food’.

33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 November 1980
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Darci Fix is shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, in Portland, Oregon, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 November 1980
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Unemployed teacher and 50-year-old Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford drives her blue Lincoln Continental down a crowded downtown sidewalk, trying to kill as many people as possible. in Reno, Virginia Street, Nevada, United States.
She killed seven and injured 23.

32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 November 1981
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Actress Lotte Lenya originally Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, dies of cancer at the age of 83 in New York, New York, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 November 1983
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181 Die in Avianca Boeing 747 crash in Madrid, Spain.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 November 1987
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Geneviève Germond is tortured and killed as eighteenth victim by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 10th, 22 rue Cail, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 November 1989
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107 Die in Avianca Boeing 727 crash in Bogota, Colombia.
The plane was blown up by drug-traffickers.

24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 November 1989
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Elisabeth Gibson is is found suffocated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, in Rochester, New York, United States.

19 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 November 1994
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233 Die in dance hall fire in Tuxan, China.

6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 November 2007
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68-year-old Serial Killer Nicolas Panard is arrested on suspicion of 18 murders in the past 20 years in Mulhouse, Avenue Aristide Briand, 36, Alsace, France.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

80 Years Ago Governor Lynch Enjoyed the Spectacle

114 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 November 1899
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Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, is born in Kamenz, Germany.

104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 November 1909
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Writer Eugene Ionesco is born in Slatina, Romania.

91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 November 1922
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48-year-old Archaeologist Howard Carter becomes the first man to enter into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.

89 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 November 1924
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Artist George Segal is born in New York, New York, United States.

88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 November 1925
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King Vajiravudh of Siam Rama VI originally Phra Mongkutklao, dies at the age of 44 in Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.

87 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 November 1926
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Inventor and designer John Moses Browning dies of heart failure at the age of 71 in Herstal, Belgium.

86 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 November 1927
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Holland’s most famous comedian Jean-Louis Pisuisse is shot dead by Tjakko Kuiper in Amsterdam, Rembrandtplein, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
He also shot Pisuisse's wife Jenny Gilliams.  Kuiper was Gilliam’s rejected lover, he shot himself through the head after the act.

83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 November 1930
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Mass Murderer Carl Robert Brown is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 November 1932
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Serial Killer John Wayne Glover aka The North Shore Granny Killer, is born in Midlands, United Kingdom.

80 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 November 1933
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Kidnapper and murderer Thomas Harold Thurmond and his accomplice John Maurice Holmes are lynched by a raging mob in San Jose, outside Santa Clara County jail, California, United States.
Governor James ‘Sunny Jim’ Rolfe applauded while watching the spectacle.

74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 November 1939
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Musician Tina Turner originally Annie Mae Bullock, is born in Nutbush, Tennessee, United States.

73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 November 1940
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Murderer W. H. Cooper is executed by hanging.

69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 November 1944
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44-year-old Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of all crematoria in the concentration-camps in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

63 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 November 1950
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Writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler dies at the age of 83 in Tegernsee, Bayern, Germany.

48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 November 1965
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44-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs "Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt" in Düsseldorf, Galerie Schmela, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 November 1968
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Jan Whitney is strangled and a breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 23 in Salem, Center Street, Oregon, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 November 1976
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Donna Demasi is attacked by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 November 1983
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Ilke Rutsch is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 21 in Babenhausen, Germany.

29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 November 1984
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Seventh bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes on the telecommunication systems of a military airfield in Bierset, Namur, Belgium.

27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 November 1986
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Josefina Riveira is abducted and chained down by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, 3520 North Marshall Street, Pennsylvania, United States.
She survived.

9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 November 2004
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Writer Arthur Hailey dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in Lyford Cay, Nassau, Bahamas.

Monday, November 25, 2013

40 Years Ago the Green Man Measured no More

267 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 November 1746
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Robber Henry Sims is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, London City of, United Kingdom.

194 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 1819
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Robber James Cassidy is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

194 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 1819
(-)
Robber John Henley is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

194 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 1819
(-)
Robber Henry Lovell is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

191 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1822
(-)
John Holland is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
He was charged with an 'unnatural offence'.

191 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1822
(-)
William King is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
He was charged with an 'unnatural offence'.

190 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 November 1823
(-)
Burglar Henry Crisp is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

189 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 1824
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Murderer Joseph Moseley is executed by hanging in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Surrey, United Kingdom.

189 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 1824
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Murderer William Garside is executed by hanging in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Surrey, United Kingdom.

189 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 1824
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Highwayman Joseph Hayward is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

169 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1844
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Autombile designer Karl Friedrich Benz is born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

135 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1878
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Child-Murderer Henry Gilbert is executed by hanging in Great Stukeley Prison, United Kingdom.

132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 November 1881
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261st Pope John XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli aka The Blessed, is born in Sotto Il Monte, Bergamo, Italy.

130 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 November 1883
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Murderer Thomas Riley is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

118 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1895
(+)
8th President of Czechoslowakie Ludvik Svoboda is born in Hroznatin, Hungary.

113 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 November 1900
(+)
Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is born in Baden-Baden, Germany.

112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1901
(+)
Commander of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps Arthur Liebehenschel is born in Poznan, Poland.

107 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 November 1906
(+)
Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Fritz Wittig is born in Kassel, Germany.

99 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 November 1914
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Baseball player Joe Joseph Paul Di Maggio originally Giuseppe Paolo, is born in Marinez, California, United States.

98 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 1915
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Military president and dictator Augusto Pinochet is born in ValparaIso, Chile.

96 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 November 1917
(-)
Celestine Lavie-Buisson is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, at the age of 46 in Gambais, France.

77 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 November 1936
(x)
Start of the trial against 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe in Tokyo, Japan.

75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 November 1938
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Spree Killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 November 1938
(-)
Murderer George Pingley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, United States.

67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1946
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Serial Killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, is born in The Bronx, New York, United States.

49 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 November 1964
(-)
Margaret McGowan aka Frances Brown aka Ann Sutherland aka Susan Edwards aka Frances Quinn, is found naked and dead as victim by Jack the Stripper at the age of 21 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 November 1966
(x)
84 Die in Tabso Iljoeshin 18 crash in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.

46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 November 1967
(-)
Artist Ossip Zadkine dies at the age of 77 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 November 1970
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Writer Yukio Mishima commits suicide by Harakiri at the age of 45 in the headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self Defense Forces, Tokyo, Japan.
The act was to end in his ritual decapitation by Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita. Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform the decapitation properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. After Mishima was decapitated, Morita also attempted to commit seppuku and was beheaded by Koga.

40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 November 1973
(-)
Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is stabbed through the heart by Robert Wilson at the age of 42 in Walpole State Prison Infirmary, Massachusetts, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1974
(-)
Singer songwriter Nick Nicholas Rodney Drake commits suicide by an overdose of Tryptizol at the age of 26 in Tanworth, United Kingdom.

38 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 November 1975
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Julia Goncalves is shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 29 in Nogent-sur-Oise, Parc Hébert, France.

32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 November 1981
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Victim of Marc Dutroux, Laetitia Delhez is born in Belgium.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 November 1987
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Finalteri is attacked and tortured by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 87 in Paris 10th, rue d’Alsace, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 November 1987
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Rachel Cohen is attacked and tortured by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 79 in Paris 10th, 46 rue du Château d’eau, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 1993
(x)
10-year-old Robert Thompson and 10-year-old Jon Venables are sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for killing 3-year-old Murder victim James Patrick Bulger in Preston, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

3 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 November 2010
(-)
Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy, dies in his sleep at the age of 55 in Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.

1 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 November 2012
(x)
Over 100 Die in Tazreen Fashion factory fire in Dhaka, Ashulia, Bangladesh.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

50 Years Ago He Closed His Carousel Club for the Evening

381 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 November 1632
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Philosopher Baruch de Spinoza is born in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

273 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 November 1740
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Murderer William Duell is executed by hanging at the age of 16 in Tyburn Tree, London, London City of, United Kingdom.
His body was taken to Surgeons' Hall for anatomy, where he was seen to move slightly, he regained consciousness and said he had had a bad dream. He was sent to Newgate Prison again.

273 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 November 1740
(-)
Burglar Thomas Clock is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, London City of, United Kingdom.

273 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 November 1740
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Burglar William Meers is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, London City of, United Kingdom.

273 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 November 1740
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Burglar Henry Stanton is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, London City of, United Kingdom.

273 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 November 1740
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Burglar Eleanor Munoman is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, London City of, United Kingdom.

229 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 November 1784
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12th president of the USA Zachary Taylor is born in Barboursville, Virginia, United States.

149 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 November 1864
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Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is born in Albi, France.

143 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 November 1870
(-)
Writer Comte Isidore Ducasse De Lautréamont dies at the age of 24 in Paris, Montmartre, 7 rue de Faubourg, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

129 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 November 1884
(-)
Murderer Kay Howarth is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

129 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 November 1884
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Murderer Harry Hammond Swindells is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

116 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 November 1897
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Gangster Charlie Luciano originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano, is born in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy.

107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 November 1906
(-)
Murderer Fred A. Shephard is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Oregon, United States.

89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 November 1924
(x)
35-year-old Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin marries 16-year-old pregnant Lolita McMurray in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico.

87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 November 1926
(-)
Florence Monks is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Seattle, Washington, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 November 1929
(+)
Mayor George Richard Moscone is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

82 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 November 1931
(-)
FBI-agent Albert L. Ingle is accidently shot dead when a private detective’s gun fell out of his pocket at the age of 28 in United States.

69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 November 1944
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Poet Jules Deelder is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 November 1946
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Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is born in Burlington, Elisabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, Vermont, United States.

67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 November 1946
(-)
Artist and designer Laszlo Moholo-Nagy dies at the age of 51 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 November 1963
(-)
Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby at the age of 24 in Dallas, Texas, United States.

42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 November 1971
(x)
Hijacker D.B. “Dan” Cooper jumps from the back of a Northwest Airlines Flight 305 Boeing 727-051 after securing 200.000 $ ransom and four parachutes in Washington, United States.

22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 November 1991
(-)
Musician Freddie Mercury originally Farrokh Bulsara, dies of a lung-infection due to AIDS at the age of 45 in London, Kensington, United States.

21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 November 1992
(x)
141 Die in China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crash in Guangdong, China.

9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 November 2004
(-)
School attacker Jia Qingyou is executed by the Firing Squad in Shandong, China.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

60 Years Ago He Vanished into the Other Radar Blip

1937 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 November 76
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2nd Pope Linus dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.

209 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1804
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14th president of the USA Franklin Pierce is born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.

154 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 November 1859
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Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, is born in Manhattan, New York, United States.

146 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 November 1867
(-)
Cop Killer William O’Meara Allen is executed by hanging in Manchester, Salford Prison, United Kingdom.

146 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 November 1867
(-)
Cop Killer Michael Larkin is executed by hanging in Manchester, Salford Prison, United Kingdom.

146 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 November 1867
(-)
Cop Killer William Gould aka O’Brien, is executed by hanging in Manchester, Salford Prison, United Kingdom.

137 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 November 1876
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Composer Manuel De Falla is born in Cadiz, Spain.

136 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1877
(-)
Murderer Cadwallader Jones is executed by hanging in Dolgellau Prison, Merionetshire, United Kingdom.

136 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1877
(-)
Murderer John Hill is executed by hanging in Hereford Prison, United Kingdom.

136 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1877
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Murderer John Williams is executed by hanging in Hereford Prison, United Kingdom.

126 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 November 1887
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Actor Boris Karloff originally William Henry Pratt, is born in London, Camberwell, London City of, United Kingdom.

125 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1888
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Actor and filmmaker Harpo Arthur Adolph Marx is born in New York, New York, United States.

123 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 November 1890
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Artist El Ellasar Markowitsch Lissitsky is born in Polschinok, Russia.

122 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 November 1891
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Artist Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko is born in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia.

103 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 November 1910
(-)
Serial Killer Harvey Hawley Crippen is executed by hanging at the age of 48 in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

103 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 November 1910
(-)
Murderer Johan Alfred Andersson Ander is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 37 in Stockholm, Sweden.
It was the first execution by the Guillotine and the last execution ever in Sweden.

81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 November 1932
(-)
Murderer Edward Hutchinson is executed by hanging in Oxford, United Kingdom.

80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 November 1933
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Composer Krzysztof Penderecki is born in Debica, Poland.

78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 November 1935
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Cosmonaut Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov is born in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1945
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Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is born in Fraserburgh, 47 Academy Road, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom.

60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 November 1953
(x)
27-year-old Pilot Felix Moncia disappears in an F-89C Scorpion jet while chasing an Unidentified Flying Object in Soo Locks, Michigan, United States.
He was never seen again.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1956
(x)
143 Die in train derailment in Marudaiyar, India.

50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 November 1963
(-)
John Kilbride is kidnapped and killed by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 12 in Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom.

50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 November 1963
(-)
Joan Graff is raped and strangled as twelfth victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 23 in Boston, Lawrence, 54 Essex Street, Massachusetts, United States.

44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 November 1969
(-)
Marielle Archambault is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, in Canada.

38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 November 1975
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Writer and politician André Malraux originally André Berger, dies at the age of 74 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 November 1981
(-)
Paul Nobbs is attacked by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 19 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
He survived.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 November 1985
(x)
The Abu Nidal Organization hijacks EgyptAir Flight 648 Boeing 737 after take-off in Athens, Greece and landing in Luqa Airport, Malta.
As Egypt forces storm the plane, 60 people die in the shootout.

24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 November 1989
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June Stott is found suffocated and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 30 in Rochester, Genesee Gorge, New York, United States.

23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1990
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Writer Roald Dahl dies of myeolodysplastic anaemia at the age of 74 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 1990
(x)
21-year-old First Western Female Suicide Bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam, marries 31-year old drug dealer Habib in order to help him get official papers to remain in the country in Charleroi, Belgium.

22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 November 1991
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Actor Klaus Kinski originally Nikolausz Gunther Nakszynski, dies at the age of 65 in San Francisco, California, United States.

18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 November 1995
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Filmmaker Louis Malle dies of lymphatic cancer at the age of 63 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 November 1998
(x)
Start of new excavations in the area of the house where Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, his mother lived in Chicago, Northwest Side, Illinois, United States.
Gacy was executed in 1994.

15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 November 1998
(x)
Start of the trial against 39-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, in Zhytomyr, Ukraïne, Russia.

12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 2001
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Moralist campaigner Mary Whitehouse originally Constance Mary Hutcheson, dies at the age of 91 in Colchester, United Kingdom.

1 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 November 2012
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Actor Larry Hagman aka JR Ewing, dies of complications of throat cancer at the age of 81 in Dallas, Texas, United States.

Friday, November 22, 2013

50 Years Ago the Motorcade Sped On

186 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1827
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Coiner Edward Lowe is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

186 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1827
(-)
Highwayman Charles Smith is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

186 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1827
(-)
Robber John Keats is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

186 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1827
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Robber John Powell is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

160 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1853
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German ambassador in China Klemens August Freiherr von Ketteler is born in Potsdam, Germany.

144 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 November 1869
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Writer André Gide is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

133 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 November 1880
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Murderer Joseph Distin is executed by hanging in Horfield Gaol, United Kingdom.

130 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1883
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Catharina Aben is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, at the age of 5 in Leiden, Netherlands.

123 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1890
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President of France Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle is born in Lille, France.

115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1898
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Airplane pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post is born in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States.

111 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1902
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Artillery-engineer Friedrich Alfred Krupp commits suicide by a newspaper reporting about a homosexual escapade on Capri at the age of 48 in Essen, Villa Hügel, Germany.

111 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1902
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General and WWII hero Philippe de Hautecloque Leclerc is born in Belloy-Saint-Léonard, France.

103 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1910
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Wife-Murderer Henry Thompson is executed by hanging in Liverpool, Walton Gaol, United Kingdom.

100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1913
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Composer Benjamin Britten is born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

97 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 November 1916
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Writer Jack London dies of uremia and morphine-poisoning at the age of 40 in Glen Ellen, California, United States.

88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 November 1925
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Pilot Geraldine “Jerrie” Fredritz Mock is born in Newark, Ohio, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1932
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Actor Robert Vaughn is born in New York, New York, United States.

76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 November 1937
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Fritz Frommer is murdered by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 25 in Paris, La Celle Saint-Cloud, Villa la Voulzie, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 November 1950
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Murderer Norman Goldthorpe is executed by hanging in Yarmouth, United Kingdom.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1958
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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1958
(-)
Murderer Richard L. Jordan is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 November 1963
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35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald at the age of 46 in Dallas, Dealey Plaza, Texas, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 November 1963
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Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley dies of an LSD-overdose, trying to ease his pain due to cancer at the age of 69 in Hollywood, California, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 November 1974
(x)
37-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his son Mike raid several houses and rape a woman in Lindenwold, New Jersey, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1980
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Actress Mae Mary Jane West dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 November 1993
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Writer Anthony Burgess dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in London, St. John’s Wood, London City of, United Kingdom.

19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1994
(-)
Murderer Warren Bridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 November 1995
(x)
Serial Killer, wife of Frederick West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, Rosemary West is convicted to life imprisonment in Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
She was accused of helping her husband in 10 murders.

16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1997
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INXS lead-singer Michael Hutchence commits suicide by hanging at the age of 37 in Sydney, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New South Wales, Australia.
His death was an auto-erotic fatality.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 2007
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Choreographer Maurice Béjart dies at the age of 80 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

115 Years Ago Il n'était pas un Artiste

319 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1694
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Writer Voltaire originally François-Marie Arouet, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

318 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1695
(-)
Composer Henry Purcell dies of tuberculosis at the age of 36 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

284 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1729
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Highwayman William Gordon is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, London City of, United Kingdom.
Before the execution a Dr. Chovot secretly opened Gordon's windpipe. Afterwards Gordon was cut down and rushed to a hospital where a vein was opened and the blood ran freely. Gordon groaned and died.

202 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1811
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Poet, dramatist and writer Heinrich Bernd Wilhelm von Kleist commits suicide by a gunshot at the age of 34 in Potsdam, on the shore of the Wannsee, Germany.
He first shot Henriette Vogel, with whose intellectual accomplishments he was captivated.

197 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1816
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Murderer Robert Smith is executed by hanging in Wapping Execution Dock, United Kingdom.

197 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1816
(-)
Murderer Charles Feeney is executed by hanging in Wapping Execution Dock, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-)
Highwayman Isaac Celebia is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-)
Highwayman George Smith is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-)
Thief William Gorton is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-)
Thief William Harding is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
He had stolen a sheep.

192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-)
Forger Thomas Tupley is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-)
Forger Edward Sparrow is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-)
Forger Josiah Cadman is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

186 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1827
(-)
Murderer Levi Kelley is executed by hanging in Cooperstown, New York, United States.
During the public execution a temporary wooden stand, holding hundreds of spectators, collapsed and 2 people were killed.

164 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1849
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‘Brother’ of Lou Salomé and rival of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Ree is born in Bartelshagen, Germany.

159 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 November 1854
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258th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, is born in Genova, Italy.

136 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1877
(-)
Murderer Thomas Grey is executed by hanging in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1881
(-)
Murderer Alfred Gough is executed by hanging in Derby, United Kingdom.

126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1887
(-)
Murderer Joseph Morley is executed by hanging at the age of 17 in Chelmsford, United Kingdom.

125 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1888
(-)
Murderers Jake and Joe Tobler is executed by hanging in Wichita, Kansas, United States.

115 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1898
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Artist René François Ghislain Magritte is born in Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium.

114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 November 1899
(-)
Murderer George Nunn is executed by hanging in Ipswich, United Kingdom.

84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1929
(-)
Aloïs Ortner is attacked by Kurt Tetzner aka The Murderer Who Died Twice, in Ingolstadt, Germany.
He survived.

74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 November 1939
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Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer is born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States.

72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1941
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Murderess Juanita Eithel Leta Spinelli aka The Duchess, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 52 in San Quentin, California, United States.
She’s the first woman to die in the San Quentin Gas Chamber.

70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1943
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Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1957
(-)
Murderer David Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1960
(-)
Murderer Oscar Wimis is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1963
(-)
Murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, dies at the age of 73 in Springfield, Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Missouri, United States.

45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1968
(x)
35-year-old Artist Yoko Ono has a miscarriage.

45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1968
(x)
21-year-old Actress Marianne Faithfull has a miscarriage.

44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1969
(-)
James Sharp is presumably slashed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 15 in Thetan Manor Scientology commune, California, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1974
(x)
20 die in two bomb-attacks by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army on pubs in Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
As a result, the IRA is declared an unlawful organisation.

38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1975
(x)
23-year-old Serial Killer Patrick David Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, is sentenced to life imprisonment in London, The Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1975
(x)
24-year-old Mass-murderer Ronald Joseph Butch DeFeo Jr. aka The Amityville Horror Murderer, is sentenced to 6 terms of 25 years to life in New York, New York, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1979
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9/11 Terrorist Saeed al-Ghamdi is born in al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.

33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1980
(x)
84 Die in MGM hotel fire in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1985
(x)
Twenty-fifth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Motorola factory, Brussels, Belgium.

26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 November 1987
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Diane Cho is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, at the age of 15 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States.

20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1993
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116 Die in Avio Impek Yak-42 crash in Ohrid, Greece.

20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1993
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Actor Bill Wilfred Bailey Bixby dies of prostate cancer at the age of 59 in Century City, California, United States.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1997
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Mass Murderer Joseph Gautsch commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 36 in Mauterndorf, Austria.
Before he killed 6 people in a shooting spree.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1997
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Artist Barnett Newman 's painting "Cathedra" is attacked by 44-year-old G.J. Van B. in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1997
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Murderer Charles Livingston is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1999
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Raconteur Quentin Crisp originally Denis Charles Pratt, dies at the age of 90 in Manchester, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, United Kingdom.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

35 Years Ago He Became His Own Metaphysical Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon

261 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 November 1752
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Writer and forger Thomas Chatterton is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.

252 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1761
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253rd Pope Pius VIII originally Francesco Xaverio Cappeliari, is born in Cingoli, Italy.

158 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 November 1855
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John Cook is poisoned by William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the United Kingdom.

136 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 November 1877
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Double Murderer Henry March is executed by hanging in Norwich, United Kingdom.

128 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1885
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Murderer Thomas J. Cluverius is executed by hanging in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

124 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 November 1889
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Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble is born in Marshfield, Missouri, United States.

119 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 November 1894
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Louise Marcel is murdered as third victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 13 in France.

111 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 November 1902
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Commander of Breendonk-KZ Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt is born in Bad Kissingen, Bayern, Germany.

110 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1903
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Murderer Tom Horn is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States.

103 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 November 1910
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Writer Leonid Lev Nikolayewitsch Tolstoy dies of a lung infection combined with and exausting fit of hiccuping at the age of 82 in Astapovo, Russia.

89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 November 1924
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Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, is born in Merthyr Vale, Wales, United Kingdom.

88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1925
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Politician Robert F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.

82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1931
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Founding member of The Process Church of the Final Judgment Mary Anne MacLean DeGrimston is born in Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

79 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 November 1934
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Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, is sentenced to death in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1936
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Founder of the Fascist Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Saenz De Heredia is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 33 in Alicante, Spain.

77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1936
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Arte Povera Artist Luciano Fabro is born in Torino, Italy.

57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 November 1956
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Actress Bo Derek originally Derek Harris, is born in Long Beach, California, United States.

57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 November 1956
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Spree Killer David Malcolm Gray is born in Dunedin, New Zealand.

54 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1959
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30-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for abduction in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 November 1960
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37-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer stabs his 37-year-old wife Adele with a penknife in the abdomen and back at a party in their apartment in New York, 250 West 94th Street, New York, United States.

49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1964
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37-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is arrested on charges of burglary in Seattle, Washington, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 November 1974
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59 Die in Lufthansa Boeing 747 crash in Nairobi.

38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 November 1975
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Caudillo of Spain Francisco Y Bahamonde Franco dies at the age of 83 in Madrid, Spain.

35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 November 1978
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Artist Giorgio De Chirico dies at the age of 90 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 November 1978
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Mary Gallagher is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 17 in Springburn, United Kingdom.

23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 November 1990
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54-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is arrested in Rostow, Russia.

22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 November 1991
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140 Die in sailboat shipwreck in Cuba.

20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 November 1993
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123 Die in Aviolimpex Yak 42D crash in Ohrid, Macedonia.
There was one survivor.

16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 November 1997
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Interior minister Jack Straw decides to uphold the ruling made by his predecessor, Michael Howard, that 55-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, would serve her life sentence, or tariff, in full and die in jail, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
Hindley requested a judicial review of her sentence.

15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 November 1998
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Double murderer John Noland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 November 2002
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Triple murderer William Wesley Chappell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 November 2003
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Double murderer Robert Lloyd Henry is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 November 2006
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Filmmaker Robert Altman dies of leukemia at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California, United States.