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
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Robber John Henley is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

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

191 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 November 1822
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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
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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
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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
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8th President of Czechoslowakie Ludvik Svoboda is born in Hroznatin, Hungary.

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

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

107 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 November 1906
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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84 Die in Tabso Iljoeshin 18 crash in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.

46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 November 1967
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Over 100 Die in Tazreen Fashion factory fire in Dhaka, Ashulia, Bangladesh.

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