492 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 December 1521
(-) 217th Pope Leo X originally Giovanni De Medici, dies at the age of 46 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
252 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 December 1761
(+) Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud originally Marie Grosholtz, is born in Strasbourg, France.
183 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 December 1830
(-) 253rd Pope Pius VIII originally Francesco Xaverio Cappeliari, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
147 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 December 1866
(-) Surveyor George Everest dies at the age of 76 in Greenwich, United Kingdom.
80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 December 1933
(+) Musician Lou Allen Rawls is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 December 1935
(+) Actor and filmmaker Woody Allen originally Allen Konigsberg, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 December 1942
(x) The first transport of jews arrives in the concentration-camp in Birkenau, Germany.
68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 December 1945
(+) Musician Bette Midler is born in Paterson, New Jersey, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 December 1947
(-) Magick Master Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast 666, dies of myocardial degeneration and chronic bronchitis at the age of 72 in Netherwood, The Ridge, Hastings, United Kingdom.
64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 December 1949
(+) Drug Baron Pablo Emilio Gaviria Escobar aka El Patron, is born in Medellin, Colombia.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 December 1957
(-) Robert Colvert is robbed and shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 21 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 December 1958
(x) 95 Die in Our Lady of Angels parochial school fire in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
It turned out to be a case of arson by a 10-year-old boy who confessed in 1962.
52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 December 1961
(+) Cannibal and murderer Armin Meiwes aka Der Metzgermeister, is born in Germany.
48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 December 1965
(x) The death-sentence of 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is commuted to life-imprisonment in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 December 1969
(-) Elaine Davis is presumably killed as ninth victim by Zodiac in California, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 December 1973
(-) Architect of Israël David Gruen Ben Gurion dies at the age of 87 in Tel-Aviv, Israël.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 December 1974
(-) An unidentified man is killed as first victim by The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 December 1974
(x) 92 Die in Trans World Airlines Flight 514 Boeing 727-231 crash in Mount Weather, Virginia, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 December 1981
(x) 178 Die in Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crash in Corsica, France.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 December 1982
(x) 61-year-old Barney Clark has a heart transplantation with an artificial heart in Salt Lake City, Utah,
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 December 1987
(-) Terrorist Shinichi Hachiya commits suicide by poisoning at the age of 69 in Bahrein, airport, Saudi-Arabia.
Along with 27-year-old Mayume Akabe he was arrested on suspicion of planting the bomb in the Boeing that exploded 2 days before in Birma. Later the two were identified as Korean agents Kim Sung-il and Kim Hyun-hee.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 December 1987
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is arrested in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 December 1987
(x) Jean-Marie Rouillan, Nathalie Menigon, Joëlle Aubron and Georges Cipriani, leaders of the Terrorist Movement Action Directe start hungerstriking in prison in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 December 1987
(-) Susan Tucker is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, in Arlington, Virginia, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 December 2007
(x) 57-year-old Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man, walks into a police station and claims loss of memory in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
He had been missing after a trip on the North Sea on 21 march 2002 and declared dead.
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