Sunday, November 3, 2013

220 Years Ago Elle a Pris Son Premier Voyage Aérien en Salutant la Patrie

230 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 November 1783
(-) Highwayman John Austin is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, London City of, United Kingdom.
It was the last public hanging at Tyburn.

220 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 November 1793
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Feminist Olympe de Gouges originally Marie Gouze, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 44 in Paris, Place de la Révolution, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

218 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 November 1795
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11th president of the USA James Knox Polk is born in Pineville, North Carolina, United States.

132 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 November 1881
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Arend De Hees is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, Netherlands.

124 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 November 1889
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Composer Reszoe Seress aka Rudi, originally Spitzer, is born in Budapest, Hungary.
His song "Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)" sparked a worldwide wave of suicides in 1933.

112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 November 1901
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Fourth King of Belgium Leopold III originally Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, is born in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 November 1901
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Writer and politician André Malraux originally André Berger, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 November 1914
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Writer Georg Trakl commits suicide by an overdose of cocaïne at the age of 27 in Krakow, Poland.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 November 1922
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Actor Charles Bronson originally Charles Dennis Buchinski, is born in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, United States.

59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 November 1954
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Musician Adam Ant is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 November 1954
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Artist Henri Emile Benoit Matisse dies of a heart attack at the age of 84 in Cimiez, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 November 1957
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Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich dies of heart failure at the age of 60 in Lewisburg, Federal Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 November 1957
(x) Laika
becomes the first dog in space, in a Sputnik 2.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 November 1982
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Over 1000 Die in fuel tanker and munitions truck collision and fire in Salang, Afghanistan.

30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 November 1983
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Simone Newin is strangled by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 22 in Offenbach, Germany.

29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 November 1984
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Lisa McVey is abducted and repeatedly raped for 26 hours by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 17 in Tampa, Waters Avenue, Florida, United States.
She survived.

25 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 November 1988
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Murderer Donald G. Franklin is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 November 1993
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Inventor Léon Theremin originally Lev Sergeyevich Termen, dies at the age of 97 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.

17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 November 1996
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Military Ruler Jean Bédel Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Moyen-Congo.

15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 November 1998
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Designer Bob Kane aka The Father of Batman, dies at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 November 1998
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36-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Adam Ford aka The Breast Severer, walks into a police station, pulls a severed breast in a ziplock bag out of his pocket and confesses to four murders in Eureka, California, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 November 2003
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35-year-old Serial Killer Yang Xinhai is arrested in Hebei, China.
He is suspected of killing 67 people.

8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 November 2005
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Child murderer Melvin Wayne White is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 November 2005
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Founder of Burda magazine Aenne Burda originally Anna Magdalene Lemminger, dies of natural causes at the age of 96 in Offenburg, Germany.

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