Tuesday, November 19, 2013

185 Years Ago the King of Harmony Sent the King of Song a Friendly Bidding to the Crossing

1515 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 November 498
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Pope Anastasius II dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.

185 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 November 1828
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Composer Franz Peter Schubert dies of arthritis due to syphilis at the age of 31 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

182 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 November 1831
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20th president of the USA James Abraham Garfield is born in Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

155 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 1858
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Murderer William H. Buse is executed by hanging in Jacinto, Mississippi, United States.

153 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 November 1860
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Murderer James Mullins is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

136 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 November 1877
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Murderer William Hassel is executed by hanging in Exeter, United Kingdom.

135 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 November 1878
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Wife-Murderer M’Gowan is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

130 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 November 1883
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Murderer Peter Bray is executed by hanging in Durham Gaol, United Kingdom.

118 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 November 1895
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Murderer Richard Wingrove is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 November 1901
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Murderer Marcel Faugeron is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
It is the first execution for Henry Pierrepoint.

109 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 November 1904
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Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, is born in Chicago, Kenwood, Illinois, United States.

104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 1909
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259 Die in St. Paul’s Company coal-mine explosion in Cherry, Illinois, United States.

98 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 1915
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Radical songwriter, labour leader and supposed murderer Joe Hill originally Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

96 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 November 1917
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President Indira Pridar Shini Gandhi is born in Anand Bhavan-Allahabad, India.

80 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 November 1933
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TV-host Larry King originally Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

75 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 November 1938
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Media tycoon Ted Turner is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 November 1942
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Underwear designer Calvin Klein is born in New York, New York, United States.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 1948
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Child-Murderer Peter Griffiths is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Liverpool, Walton Prison, United Kingdom.

64 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 November 1949
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Artist James Sydney Ensor dies at the age of 89 in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.

59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 1954
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28-year-old Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California, United States.

51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 November 1962
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Actress Jodie Foster is born in New York, New York, United States.

51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 November 1962
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Murderer Farley Matchett is born in Texas, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 November 1963
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Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 11-year-old boy in Trinity, La Chasse du Diable, Jersey.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 1971
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25-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Shoot" at F Space in Santa Ana, California, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 November 1977
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129 Die in Transportes Aeros Portugueses Boeing 727 crash in Santa Cruz, Portugal.

36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 November 1977
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Kristina Weckler is raped, tortured and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 November 1979
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "A-B" with Lud Vandevelde in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 November 1983
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Robin Stavinsky is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 19 in Norwich, Connecticut, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 November 1984
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544 Die in PEMEX petroleum storage facility explosion in Mexico City, Mexico.
Many died in the subsequent fire.

22 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 November 1991
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80 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Tehuacan, Mexico.

21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 November 1992
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Murderer Jeffrey Griffin is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 1993
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Over 80 Die in toy-factory fire in Shenzen, Kuiyon, China.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 November 1997
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Suspected Serial Killer Michael Sharp is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 1999
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Double Murderer David Junior Brown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 November 2002
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Murderer Craig Neil Jr. Ogan is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 November 2004
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Producer and shaper of Californian Surf Sound Terry Melcher dies of cancer at the age of 62 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 November 2009
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Fashion Model Daul Kim commits suicide by hanging at the age of 20 in Paris 10th, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
A final post on her blog read: “Say hi to forever.”

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