(x) 50-year-old Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, and her accomplices are arrested in Cachtice, Hungary.
292 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1721
(+) Courtisane Madame De Pompadour originally Jeann-Antoinette Poisson, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
213 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1800
(+) Engineer Charles Goodyear is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
205 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1808
(+) 17th president of the USA Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.
188 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1825
(-) Artist Jacques-Louis David is hit by a carriage and dies of deformations to the heart at the age of 77 in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
179 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1834
(-) Poet Charlotte Stieglitz commits suicide by driving a dagger through her heart at the age of 28 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
148 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1865
(-) Murderer John Hundley is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.
137 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1876
(x) 92 Die in Pacific Express Train n° 5 derailment in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.
The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The two designers of the bridge committed suicide.
112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 December 1901
(-) Husband Murderess Emily Swan is executed by hanging in Leeds, Armley Gaol, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1916
(-) Influencial Monk Grigory Jefimovitsch Novitsch Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is killed by Prince Joesoepov at the age of 47 in Petrograd, Russia.
92 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1921
(+) Founder of the Solar Lodge division of the Ordo Templis Orientis Georgina Jean Brayton is born in California, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 December 1923
(+) Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is born in Ohio, United States.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1926
(-) Poet Rainer Maria Karl Wilhelm Johann Joseph Rilke dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Valmont, Switzerland.
80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1933
(+) Quaker Norman Morrison is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1937
(+) Actress Mary Tyler Moore is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
(+) Actor Jon Jonathan Vincent Voight is born in Yonkers, New York, United States.
70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1943
(x) 12-year-old Serial Killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is charged with burglary and committed to the Lyman School for Boys in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 December 1945
(x) Augusta Gein dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son 39-year-old Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, United States.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 December 1946
(+) Actress Marianne Faithfull is born in Hampstead, United Kingdom.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 December 1957
(-) Judy Dull is is found skeletonised, abducted, assaulted and strangled by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 20 in Thousand Palms, off US Highway 60, California, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1969
(x) 56-year-old Muriel McKay is kidnapped by Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein in Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
She was never found again, probably fed to the Hosein pigs.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 December 1972
(x) 98 Die in Eastern Airlines airliner crash in Miami, Florida, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 December 1973
(-) Cruz Mestas is is found tortured and killed by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 24 in San Bernardino mountains, California, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 December 1976
(-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in Isleworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 December 1977
(-) Ambrose Griffin is shot dead by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 52 in Sacramento, Robertson Avenue, California, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1980
(-) Musician Tim Hardin dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 39 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1986
(-) Filmmaker Andrei Arseniewitsch Tarkovski dies of lung cancer at the age of 54 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 December 1987
(x) Over 150 Die in ferry fire in Patvakhali, Bangladesh.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 December 1997
(x) The government starts to kill all 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza in Hong Kong.
12 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 December 2001
(x) 274 Die in massive downtown fire in Lima, Peru.
4 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 December 2009
(-) British Drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
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