Saturday, December 28, 2013

30 Years Ago the Dark Horse Surfed Into the Void

202 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 December 1811
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Multiple Murderer John Williams commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 27.

172 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 December 1841
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Murderess Anna Månsdotter aka The Yngsjö Murderess, is born in Yngsjö, Sweden.

167 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1846
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Iowa becomes the 29th United State of America in Iowa, United States.

157 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 December 1856
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28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia, United States.

125 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1888
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Filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe Murnau is born in Bielefeld, Germany.

123 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 December 1890
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175 Sioux are massacred in Wounded Knee, United States.

89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 December 1924
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Victim of James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-by Murderer, Michael Gregsten is born in Slough, United Kingdom.

88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1925
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Actress and musician Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef is born in Ulm, Germany.

87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 December 1926
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Germania Harpin is raped and strangled as eleventh victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 29 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.
He also killed her 8-month-old child.

82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1931
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Situationist writer and filmmaker Guy Debord is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1934
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X-rays of the pelvic region of 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, reveal 27 needles scattered thoughout the area of his groin and lower abdomen in New York, Grasslands Hospital, New York, United States.

77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1936
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Gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Ennemy n°1, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 December 1937
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Composer Maurice Joseph Ravel dies after brain surgery at the age of 62 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1945
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Writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser dies at the age of 74 in Hollywood, California, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 December 1963
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Composer Paul Hindemuth dies at the age of 68 in Frankfurt, Germany.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 December 1972
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The presumed skeleton of Nazi-leader Martin Bormann is found in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1979
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USSR military forces attack Afghanistan.

34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1979
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Death-Interruption - 1" with Frank De Busscher in Antwerpen, Ruimte Z, Antwerp, Belgium.

30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 December 1983
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Beach Boy Dennis Wilson drowns after diving off a friend’s boat at the age of 39 in Los Angeles, Marina Del Rei, California, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1984
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Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in Inglewood, California, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 1984
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Murderer Robert Lee Willie aka Dead Man Walking, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 27 in Angola, Louisiana, United States.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 December 1987
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47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons drives into town and shoots several people in different offices before surrendering without resistance to the police in Russelville, Arkansas, United States.

12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 December 2001
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Serial Killer Larry Lawrence Singleton dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Florida, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 December 2002
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43-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Parels voor de Zwijnen" in Eernegem, East Flanders, Belgium.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 December 2004
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Writer and activist Susan Sontag originally Susan Rosenblatt, dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Manhattan, New York, United States.

2 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 December 2011
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Chimpanzee Cheetah known from the ‘Tarzan’ movies, dies of kidney failure at the age of 80 in Palm Harbor Suncoast Primate Sanctuary, Florida, United States.

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