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.

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