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.

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