(+) Pirate John Rackham aka Calico Jack, is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.
138 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 December 1875
(-) Murderer Henry Wainwright is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
On the scaffold he shouted: “Come to see a man die, have you, you curs?”.
107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 1906
(-) Murderer Henry Hose is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Oregon, United States.
102 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 December 1911
(x) Bank messenger Ernest Caby is robbed and shot by 35-year-old Gangster Jules Bonnot and his gang in Paris, rue Orderer, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
It is the first hold-up ever to make use of a getaway-car.
96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 1917
(+) Writer Heinrich Theodor Böll is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 December 1918
(+) Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim is born in Vienna, Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Wien, Austria.
78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 December 1935
(-) Writer Kurt Tucholski aka Kaspar Hauser aka Peter Panter aka Theobald Tiger, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 45 in Hindas, Gothenburg, Germany.
77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 December 1936
(x) 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse in Tokyo, Japan.
76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 December 1937
(+) Actress Jane Fonda is born in New York, New York, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 December 1940
(+) Composer Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 December 1940
(-) Writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Hollywood, California, United States.
He died in the apartment of his friend, Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.
72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 December 1941
(+) Triple murderer Alberto Ignacio Ortiz is born in Arizona, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 December 1942
(-) Murderer Henry John Delves Boughton aka Sir Murder, commits suicide by drug-overdose in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 1945
(-) War leader George Patton aka Old Blood and Guts, dies of embolism at the age of 60 in Heidelberg, military hospital, Germany.
He had been thrown forward and smashed his head into a metal part when the Cadillac Model 75 he was sitting in crashed into a 2 1/2 ton military truck.
62 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 1951
(x) 119 Die in coal-mine explosion in West-Frankfurt, Illinois, United States.
61 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 December 1952
(+) Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is born in Illinois, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 December 1954
(x) 31-year-old Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his pregnant wife Marilyn in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 December 1967
(+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, David C. Thomas is born in United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 December 1967
(-) Heart-patient Louis Washkansky dies at the age of 55 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He was the first man who had a transplanted heart.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 December 1977
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Patrick Kearney aka The Thrash Bag Killer, pleads guilty to three counts of murder and is sentenced to life imprisonment in Riverside, California, United States.
(x) 36-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is placed under arrest as a suspect in the abduction of Robert Piest in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 December 1987
(x) 1586 Die in Dona Paz passenger ferry and Vector oil tanker collision in Tablas Strait, the Philippines.
The ferry was overcrowded and probably over 4000 people died.
25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 December 1988
(x) 270 Die in Pan Am Flight 103 Boeing 747-121 crash in Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom.
The plane was sabotaged by Libyan terrorists.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 December 2007
(x) The remains of Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan are exhumed for re-burial in Coburg, Pentridge Prison, Victoria, Australia.
He was the last man to be hanged in Australia in 1967. The site of the former prison was redeveloped for commercial and residential use.
3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 December 2010
(x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Stephen Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal, is sentenced to life imprionment for three murders in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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