(+) 217th Pope Leo X originally Giovanni De Medici, is born in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
230 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 December 1783
(-) Mass Murderer William Beadle commits suicide by cutting his throat at the age of 53 in the United Kingdom.
He first hacked to death his wife and four children.
210 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 December 1803
(+) Composer Hector Berlioz is born in Côte St. André, France.
170 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 December 1843
(+) Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch is born in Clausthal, Sachsen, Germany.
133 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 December 1880
(-) Gunsmith Oliver Winchester dies at the age of 70 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
101 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 December 1912
(+) Filmmaker Carlo Ponti is born in Magenta, Italy.
100 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 December 1913
(+) Actor Jean Alfred Villain Marais is born in Cherbourg, France.
97 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 December 1916
(+) Composer and musician Pérez Damaso Prado is born in Matanzas, Cuba.
95 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 December 1918
(+) Writer Alexander Isaewitsch Solzhenitsyn is born in Kislovodsk, Russia.
94 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 December 1919
(+) War leader Marshall Abdel Hakim Amer is born in Astal, Egypt.
93 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 December 1920
(x) While singing in "L’Elesir d’Amour", 47-year-old Tenor Enrico Caruso starts bleeding heavily from the mouth in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 December 1936
(+) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is born in Philadelphia, Northern Liberties Hospital, Pennsylvania, United States.
Illigimate to 21-year-old Judith Renner.
72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 December 1941
(x) Nazi-Germany and Italy declare war to the USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 December 1951
(-) Murderer Herbert Leonard Mills is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Nottingham Prison, United Kingdom.
53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 December 1960
(x) 73-year-old Would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick attempts to blow op President John F. Kennedy in Palm Beach, St Edward Church, Florida, United States.
He was waiting in his dynamite-laden car to cause a fatal explosion but declined when he saw Jackie Kennedy and their two children.
49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 December 1964
(-) Musician Sam Cooke is presumably shot to death by Bertha Franklin at the age of 33 in Los Angeles, Hacienda Motel, California, United States.
He supposedly broke into manager Franklin's apartment wearing nothing but a shoe and a raincoat.
48 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 December 1965
(x) 12 die in Disco Club fire, arsoned by 25-year-old Mass Murderer Lee Lassiter in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 December 1970
(x) Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen members Vivian Bogart and Patricia Mclean are arrested after throwing an incendiary bomb at the Royal National Bank in New York City, New York, United States.
They both plead guilty.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 December 1975
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, is arrested and beaten up by members of the public in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 December 1976
(-) Greg Godzik is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 17 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 December 1978
(-) Robert Piest is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 15 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 December 1979
(-) Gangster Yvan Somville shot dead in a police-fusillade at the age of 27 in Brussels, Koekelberg, Jacques Sermonlaan, Brussels, Belgium.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 December 1980
(-) Madeleine Humbert is shot in the head by Nestor Pirotte in Spa, restaurant "La Vieille France", Belgium.
Two other men were shot as well.
31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 December 1982
(-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 December 1985
(x) Hugh Scrutton is killed when a booby trap placed by 43-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, explodes in Sacramento, Rentech Computer Store, California, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 December 1995
(-) Murderer Esequel Banda is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 December 1998
(x) 101 Die in Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crash in Surat Thani, Thailand.
11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 December 2002
(-) Double murderer James Paul Collier is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
(-) Fetish model Bettie Mae Page aka the Queen of Pinups, dies of pneumonia at the age of 85 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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