(-) Inventor of electromagnets William Sturgeon dies at the age of 67 in Prestwich, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
148 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 December 1865
(+) Nurse Edith Louisa Cavell is born in Swardeston, United Kingdom.
147 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 December 1866
(+) Artist Wassily Vasiliewitsch Kandinsky is born in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
142 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 December 1871
(-) Pieternella Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, at the age of 1 in Leiden, Netherlands.
138 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 December 1875
(+) Poet Rainer Maria Karl Wilhelm Johann Joseph Rilke is born in Prague, Czechoslowakia.
132 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 December 1881
(-) Mass Murderer Konrad Beck is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
121 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 December 1892
(+) Caudillo of Spain Francisco Y Bahamonde Franco is born in El Ferrol, La Coruna, Spain.
119 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 December 1894
(-) Murderer James Canham Read is executed by hanging in Chelmsford, United Kingdom.
103 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 December 1910
(+) Actress Thelma White originally Thelma Wolpa aka Reefer Madness, is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 December 1924
(x) Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover Schwürgericht, Niedersachsen, Germany.
73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 December 1940
(+) Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is born in Waco, Texas, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 December 1944
(+) Beach Boy Dennis Wilson is born in Inglewood, California, United States.
64 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 December 1949
(+) Actor Jeff Bridges is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.
60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 December 1953
(x) 28-year-old Murderer Vincent Ciucci chloroforms his wife Anne and their 3 children and shoots them through the head in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 December 1955
(+) Musician Maurizio Bianchi aka M.B., is born in Pomponesco, Mantua, Italy.
56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 December 1957
(x) 92 Die in train collision in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 December 1969
(-) Black Panther Mark Clark is shot dead in a police raid at the age of 22 in Chicago, 2337 W. Monroe Street, Illinois, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 December 1969
(-) Deputy Chairman of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton is shot dead in a police raid at the age of 21 in Chicago, 2337 W. Monroe Street, Illinois, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 December 1971
(-) Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Georg von Rauch dies of a shot in the head at the age of 24 in Berlin, Schöneberg, Eisenacher Strasse, Berlin, Germany.
He was shot dead by Kriminalhauptmeister Hans-Joachim Schulz after trying to move an observed Ford Transit van, he had his hands in the air and was unarmed.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 December 1971
(x) During a concert by Composer Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, an unidentified man in the audience sets fire to the concert hall with a flare gun in Montreux, Casino, Switzerland.
The event is noted in Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water".
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 December 1971
(x) 100 Die in Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 Boeing 737-2H6 crash in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia.
The plane was presumably hijacked by a member of the Japanese Red Army who shot both pilots.
39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 December 1974
(x) 191 Die in KLM DC-8 crash in Columbia, Sri Lanka.
39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 December 1974
(x) 69-year-old Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre pays a visit to imprisoned terrorist Andreas Baader in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 December 1976
(-) Composer Benjamin Britten dies at the age of 63 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 December 1980
(-) Prime minister Sa Carneiro dies in a plane crash in Portugal.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 December 1981
(x) 28-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Stefan Werner Wisniewski is sentenced to two life sentences in Düsseldorf, Germany.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 December 1985
(x) Twentysixth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Antwerp, Bank of America, Antwerp, Belgium.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 December 1985
(x) 56-year-old Sadist Murderess Gertrude Baniszewski aka Gertrude Wright aka Nadine van Fossan, is released from prison in Indiana, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 December 1986
(-) Murderer Michael W. Evans is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
(-) Composer Frank Zappa dies of cancer at the age of 52 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 December 1993
(x) Second bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
The package was addressed to president Helmut Schiller.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 December 1997
(x) Serial Killer Moses Sithole is convicted on 38 counts of murder, 40 of rape and six of robbery, in Pretoria High Court, South Africa.
He is sentenced to 2,410 years in prison.
11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 December 2002
(-) Double murderer Leonard Uresti Rojas is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 December 2003
(-) Murderer Ivan Ray Jr. Murphy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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