(+) Dramatist Jean Racine is born in La Ferté-Milon, Aisne, France.
275 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1738
(-) Prostitute Constantia Jones is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Tyburn, United Kingdom.
She had stolen 36 shillings from a client.
155 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1858
(+) Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michale Secondo Puccini is born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
137 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1876
(+) Artist Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
(+) Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
111 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1902
(-) Psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing known for “Psychopathia Sexualis”, dies at the age of 62 in Graz, Austria.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1926
(-) John Bernard is raped and strangled as tenth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Council Bluffs, Ohio, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 December 1936
(+) Victim of the Manson Family, Wojciech Frykowski is born in Lodz, Poland.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1939
(x) 132 Die in train collision in Magdeburg, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 December 1946
(+) Wife of Jim, Pam Susan Courson Morrison is born in Weed, California, United States.
64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 December 1949
(+) Musicians Maurice & Robin Gibb aka the Bee Gees, are born in Douglas, Isle of Man.
60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 December 1953
(-) Rapist and Murderer Alfred Charles Whiteway is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 December 1960
(+) Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
50 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 December 1963
(x) 128 Die in TSMS Lakonia fire in Madeira, Portugal.
47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 December 1966
(-) Ilona Harke is abducted and killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 5 in Wuppertal-Bredeney, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He also cut some steaks from the body for later consumption.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1969
(-) Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg originally Jonas Stern, dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1971
(x) 66-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is released on parole after 39 year imprisonment in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1971
(-) Ida Van Isacker-Smeets is assaulted, strangled, mutilated and raped by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 47 in Mechelen, Hanswijk, Dijleoever, Antwerp, Belgium.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1971
(x) Four members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, rob the Hypotheken- und Wechselbank at Fackelstrasse of over 100.000 marks in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Policeman Herbert Schoner was shot dead when he tried to stop the getaway car.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1972
(x) 22 survivors of a plane crash are found in the Andes Mountains, Chile.
They survived on cannibalism.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1972
(+) Musician Vanessa Chantal Paradis is born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 1973
(-) Teresa Walsh is presumably strangled as forty-fourth victim by Zodiac at the age of 23 in Santa Rosa, California, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1975
(x) 431 Die in coal-mine explosion in Tjashalla, India.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1975
(-) Suzanne Bach is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 17 in Weinheim, Germany.
She survived.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1975
(-) Connie Bronzich is drugged and stabbed to death by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, at the age of 28 in Katmandu, Nepal.
35 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1978
(-) Lenotschka Sakotnowa is stabbed and strangled as first victim by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Schachty, Meshewoi 26, Russia.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 December 1982
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, abducts and sexually assaults 2 15-year-old girls on a beach in New South Wales, Australia.
They survived.
29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 1984
(x) 37-year-old Revenger Bernard Hugo Bernie Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante, shoots 19-year-old Troy Canty, 19-year-old Darrel Cabey, 19-year-old Barry Allen and 18-year-old Jimmy Ramseur, who were trying to rob him in the Seventh Avenue 2 subway train in New York, Harlem, New York, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1986
(-) Lisa Thomas is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1986
(+) Terrorist Umar Farouk Abulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber, is born in Lagos, Nigeria.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 December 1987
(x) 47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons kills his wife Rebecca, his children Gene, 17-year-old Loretta, Eddy, Marianne and Becky, and his granddaughter 3-year-old Barbara by shooting, strangling and drowning them in Dover, Arkansas, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 December 1989
(-) Writer Samuel Beckett dies of respiratory insufficiency at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 December 1992
(x) 157 Die in Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 and helicopter collision in Libya.
17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 December 1996
(-) Jacqueline Leclercq is presumably abducted as fourth victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 33 in Hyon, Rue Malapert, Hainaut, Belgium.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1997
(x) Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial Killer Ahmad Suraji aka Nasib Datuk Kalewang aka The Sorcerer, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
He stands trial for the murders of 42 women whom he ‘treated’ as a sorcerer, this involved the drinking of their saliva, and strangling them while half buried.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 December 1997
(x) 48-year-old Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
12 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 2001
(x) 28-year-old Terrorist Richard Colvin Reid aka Abdul Raheem aka The Shoebomber, attempts to blow up the American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami Boeing 767 by use of PETN explosives hidden in his shoe.
6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 December 2007
(x) 61-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is stabbed in the face by a fellow inmate in Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Sutcliffe was already blind in one eye after a previous attack.
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