(+) Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Jr. Smith is born in Sharon, Vermont, United States.
123 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 December 1890
(-) Murderess Mary Pearcey is executed by hanging in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 December 1925
(+) Ex-Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy is born in Déville-lès-Rouen, France.
87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 December 1926
(-) Murderer Petrus Stephanus François Hauptfleisch is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He killed his mother.
87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 December 1926
(-) Bonnie Pace is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 23 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.
85 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 December 1928
(+) Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook is born in Joplin, Missouri, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 December 1932
(x) 31-year-old Wife of Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels originally Johanna Maria Magdalena Behrend, has a miscarriage in München, Bayern, Germany.
72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 December 1941
(+) Musician Tim Hardin is born in Eugene, Oregon, United States.
(-) Prime Minister Hideko Tojo is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Tokyo, Sugamo Prison, Japan.
6 more officals are hanged for war-crimes.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 December 1952
(-) Murderer Leslie Green is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1961
(x) 70 Die in train derailment in Italy.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1972
(-) Airplane designer Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev dies at the age of 84 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1978
(x) Start of the excavations in the house of 36-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Chicago, Des Plaines, Norwood Park, Summerdale 8213, Illinois, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 December 1979
(-) Art collector Peggy Marguerite Guggenheim dies at the age of 81 in Padua, Italy.
She is buried in the garden of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni next to her beloved dogs.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 December 1984
(x) 15 die in a fascist bomb-attack on the Naples-Milan express in Italy.
28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 December 1985
(-) Hard Rock lover Ray Belknap commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 18 in Sparks, Nevada, United States.
He engaged in a suicide pact with a friend after listening intensively to Judas Priest albums.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 December 1987
(x) 39-year-old Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, escapes from prison in Alderson, West-Virginia, United States.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 December 1987
(x) 15-year-old Adagiso Scioni hi-jacks a KLM Boeing 737 between Amsterdam and Milan, but is arrested on arrival in Rome, Roma, Italy.
24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1989
(-) Darlene Trippi is beaten to death by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 32 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 December 1995
(x) The charred bodies of 16 members of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, are found. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning or had been shot to death in Grenoble, France.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 December 1997
(x) The New Year, a two-story houseboat where Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, shot himself through the head, days after killing Gianni Versace in july, sinks to the bottom of Indian Creek in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.
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