29th year - N° 334 Sunday, 30 November 2014

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29th year - N° 334 Sunday, 30 November 2014

30 November / Today's 11 Events:

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(+) 347 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1667 Satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, cleric and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Jonathan Swift known for Gulliver’s Travels is born in 7 Hoey's Court, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(-) 114 years ago He Died a Catholic Friday 30th of November 1900 Poet and writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde dies of meningitis at the age of 46 in Hôtel d'Alsace, 13, Rue des Beaux-Arts, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Wilde was conditionally baptised into the Catholic Church by Fr Cuthbert Dunne the day before.

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(x) 106 years ago Monday 30th of November 1908 154 die in coal mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 93 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1921 52-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is sentenced to death in 3 Place André Mignot, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 57 years ago Saturday 30th of November 1957 32-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey attacks an unidentified 29-year-old nurse in Monte a l'Abbé, Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 52 years ago Friday 30th of November 1962 Triple murderer Lowell Lee Andrews aka The Nicest Boy in Wolcott is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. Andrews' last meal request was for two fried chickens with sides of mashed potatoes, green beans and Pie à la Mode.

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(+) 48 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1966 Murderer James Edward Clayton is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 20 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1994 Theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International Guy Ernest Debord commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 63 in Champot, Bellevue-la-Montagne, Auvergne, France.

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(x) 20 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1994 23-year-old Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac is shot twice in the head, twice in the groin and once in the arm by three unidentified men in Quad Recording Studios, 723 7th Avenue # 10, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 18 years ago He Was Not Okay Saturday 30th of November 1996 Falsetto singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim, originally Herbert Khaury dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. While singing his most famous song 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis Tim suffered a heart attack on stage. He was led out by his wife Susan Marie Gardner who asked him if he was okay. Tim responded, "No, I'm not!" Those were to be his final words. Tim collapsed shortly thereafter and was rushed to the hospital where he died after doctors tried to resuscitate him for one hour and fifteen minutes.

(-) 17 years ago Sunday 30th of November 1997 Feminist punk poet Kathy Acker, originally Karen Lehmann dies of complications of breast cancer at the age of 50 in American Biologics Clinic, 15 Azucenas Street, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

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29th year - N° 333 Saturday, 29 November 2014

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29th year - N° 333 Saturday, 29 November 2014

29 November / Today's 12 Events:

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(+) 155 years ago Tuesday 29th of November 1859 Murderer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 81 years ago Wednesday 29th of November 1933 Pop artist James Rosenquist is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.

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(x) 63 years ago Thursday 29th of November 1951 46-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess escapes for the fourth time in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Judd was captured about four hours later.

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(x) 51 years ago Friday 29th of November 1963 118 die in Trans-Canada Air Lines Douglas DC-8-54CF Flight 831 crash in Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, Canada.

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(x) 41 years ago Thursday 29th of November 1973 103 die in Taiyo Department Store fire in Taiyo Department Store, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan.

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(x) 40 years ago Friday 29th of November 1974 40-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for taking part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 34 years ago Saturday 29th of November 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'This Week I Was Beaten Up - 2' and 'Eternity Forever - 2' with The Simpletones at Mixage Festival in t'Hooght, Hoogt 4, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. While the Simpletones played their music I was beaten around by a specially hired professional black heavyweight boxer on a stage without any resistance of me.While the Simpletones played their music I tried over and again to build a tower as high as possible with wooden blocks.

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(-) 33 years ago Sunday 29th of November 1981 Actress Natalie Wood, originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko aka Natasha Gurdin dies of accidental drowning and hypothermia at the age of 43 in Santa Catalina Island, California, United States.

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(x) 31 years ago Tuesday 29th of November 1983 Serial killer Michael Wolpert aka Der Neu-Isenburger Frauenmörder is arrested while raping an unidentified girl in Bockenheim, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 27 years ago Sunday 29th of November 1987 115 die in Korean Airlines Boeing 707-3B5C Flight 858 bomb explosion in Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea. On their escape, the bombers were arrested in Bahrain. They were 25-year-old Kim Hyon-Hui aka Ok Hwa and 69-year-old Kim Seung Il aka Shinichi Hachiya, who posed as her father, acting on behalf of Kim Jong-Il and the North Korean government. Kim Seung Il bit a cyanide pill that was hidden in a cigarette and died. Kim Hyun Hui unsuccessfully attempted to do the same, but a Bahraini policewoman snatched the cigarette out of her mouth just as she started to ingest the poison.

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(-) 18 years ago Friday 29th of November 1996 Minimal artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin dies of complications of diabetes at the age of 63 in Riverhead, New York, United States.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 29th of November 2001 Two microphones at a free-mic installation in Witte de With, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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29th year - N° 332 Friday, 28 November 2014

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29th year - N° 332 Friday, 28 November 2014

28 November / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 257 years ago Monday 28th of November 1757 Poet and painter William Blake is born in 28 Broad Street, Soho, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 133 years ago Monday 28th of November 1881 Writer Stefan Zweig is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 72 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1942 Murderess Toni Jo Henry, originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Lake Charles Parish jail, 5410 Broad Street, Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. During the time Henry was being tried Louisiana changed its method of execution from hanging to death by electrocution. Henry was executed within the basement of the Lake Charles Prison in Louisiana's portable electric chair which had been brought by truck from Angola the previous day. Henry was the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair.

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(x) 72 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1942 492 die in Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Cocoanut Grove, 17 Piedmont Street, Bay Village, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 56 years ago Friday 28th of November 1958 19-year-old Triple murderer Lowell Lee Andrews aka The Nicest Boy in Wolcott shoots his 50-year-old father William, 41-year-old mother Opal and 20-year old sister Jennie Marie in Wolcott, Kansas, United States. He wanted to become a 'hired gun' and inherit the family property.

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(+) 51 years ago Thursday 28th of November 1963 Serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune is born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, France.

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(x) 44 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1970 45-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion Mit Einer Gans' in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 42 years ago Tuesday 28th of November 1972 Murderer Claude Buffet is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 39 in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France. His last words were "Au revoir et à tout à l'heure".

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(-) 42 years ago Tuesday 28th of November 1972 Criminal Roger Bontems is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France. With the execution of Claude Buffet, seven minutes after Bontems, these were the last executions in Paris.

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(x) 38 years ago Sunday 28th of November 1976 44-year-old Harry De La Roche Sr., 51-year-old Mary Jane, 15-year-old Ronald and 12-year-old Eric are bludgeoned and shot dead by 18-year-old Mass murderer Harry William Frederick De La Roche jr. in 23 East Grand Avenue, Montvale, New Jersey, United States. The thought of going back to 'The Citadel', a military academy, drove De La Roche jr. "mad".

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(x) 35 years ago Wednesday 28th of November 1979 257 die in Air New Zealand McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 Flight 901 crash in Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Ross Archipelago, Antarctica. The flight was designed and marketed as a unique sightseeing experience, carrying an experienced Antarctic guide who pointed out scenic features and landmarks using the aircraft public-address system, while passengers enjoyed a low-flying sweep of McMurdo Sound. The flights left and returned to New Zealand the same day.

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(x) 34 years ago Friday 28th of November 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Hear/See' at Mixage Festival in De Beyerd, Boschstraat, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. I was tied to a table which I could turn over 360° by my own power. In the room next door where the public was slides of industrial landscapes were shown. The door between the two rooms was continuously opened and slammed back so only a few people could have a glance at the performance inside each time. When the door was closed you could hear loud monotone music when it was open you didn't hear anything.

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(x) 27 years ago Saturday 28th of November 1987 159 die in South African Airways Boeing 747-244M Flight 295 crash in the Indian Ocean.

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(-) 20 years ago Monday 28th of November 1994 Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal is beaten to death with a bar from the weight room by 25-year-old fellow-inmate Christopher Scarver while cleaning the toilets and showers in the maximum security jail at the age of 34 in Columbia Correctional Institution, 2925 Columbia Drive, Portage, Wisconsin, United States. In the same event 37-year-old murderer Jesse Anderson was also beaten and died two days later when doctors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison removed him from life support..

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 28th of November 2007 Complex plumbing in our refurbished bathroom in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 331 Thursday, 27 November 2014

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29th year - N° 331 Thursday, 27 November 2014

27 November / Today's 10 Events:

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(+) 313 years ago Sunday 27th of November 1701 Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Anders Celsius is born in Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden.

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(+) 117 years ago Saturday 27th of November 1897 Mobster and crime boss Vito Genovese aka Don Vito is born in Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 27th of November 1932 Leadership of the opposition Benigno Simeon Aquino aka Ninoy is born in Concepcion, Tarlac, Philippines.

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(-) 59 years ago Pacific 231 Blew its Last Whistle Sunday 27th of November 1955 Composer Arthur Oscar Honegger dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 52 years ago Tuesday 27th of November 1962 97 die in Varig Boeing 707-441 Flight 810 crash into a mountain in La Cruz Peak, Lima, Lima Metropolitana, Peru.

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(x) 47 years ago Monday 27th of November 1967 Start of the trial against 21-year-old Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder in Landgericht Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 27th of November 1970 73-year-old 262nd Pope Paulus VI, originally Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini is attacked with a knife by surrealist painter Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores, dressed as a priest in Manila International Airport, Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines. Paulus VI was only lightly stabbed.

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(x) 34 years ago Thursday 27th of November 1980 51-year-old Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford goes on a five-block-Thanksgiving-Day-rampage in her 1974 Lincoln, killing six people and injuring 23 in North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, United States. Arrested at the scene, Ford later tells a jailer she "did what she had to do" and that the people she hit were "just pigs, animals let out in a wild place. She also told a doctor that the voice of Joan Kennedy, then the wife of Senator Edward Kennedy, ordered her to kill. "Just run through a whole bunch of people and kill everybody" the voice said.

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(x) 31 years ago Sunday 27th of November 1983 181 die in Avianca Airlines Boeing 747-283B Flight 011 crash in Mejorada Del Campo, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain. There were 11 survivors. Among the victims were Peruvian writer Manuel Scorza, Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama, Argentinian writer Marta Traba and Mexican writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia.

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(x) 25 years ago Monday 27th of November 1989 110 die in Avianca Airlines Boeing 727-21 Flight 203 bomb explosion in Soacha, Región Andina, Colombia. After 5 minutes into the flight a bomb placed near the fuel tank exploded at 13,000 feet. Pablo Escobar of the Medellín drug cartel planned the bombing, hoping it would kill presidential candidate for the 1990 elections César Gaviria Trujillo. Gaviria was not on the plane and would go on to become President of Colombia.

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29th year - N° 330 Wednesday, 26 November 2014

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29th year - N° 330 Wednesday, 26 November 2014

26 November / Today's 9 Events:

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(+) 115 years ago Sunday 26th of November 1899 Kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann is born in Kamenz, Sachsen, Germany.

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(-) 97 years ago Monday 26th of November 1917 Louise-Joséphine Jaume, originally Barthélemey is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 90 years ago Wednesday 26th of November 1924 Pop artist George Segal is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 88 years ago Friday 26th of November 1926 Firearms designer John Moses Browning dies of heart failure at the age of 71 in Herstal, Liège, Belgium. Browning died while working at the bench on a self-loading pistol design.

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(+) 75 years ago Sunday 26th of November 1939 Musician Tina Turner, originally Anna Mae Bullock is born in Poindexter Farm, Highway 180, Nutbush, Tennessee, United States.

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(x) 70 years ago Sunday 26th of November 1944 44-year-old Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Luitpold Himmler orders the destruction of all crematoria in the concentration camps in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 49 years ago Erklärte Er die Bilder Friday 26th of November 1965 44-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs 'Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt' in Galerie Schmela, Hunsrückenstraße 16–18, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 30 years ago Monday 26th of November 1984 Seventh bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC on the telecommunication systems in Base Aérienne de Bierset, Bierset, Liège, Belgium. It was the sixth action in their 'Campagne Anti-Impérialiste d'Octobre'.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 26th of November 2007 A program featuring exclusive audio clips, music, and spoken word from and about Bruno Hauptmann's innocence, Sallie Ellen Ionesco's 'ice pick' transorbital lobotomy, Howard Carter, Jean-Louis Pisuisse's protest songs, John Holmes and Linda Lovelace, 'Nutbush' cover versions, Heinrich Himmler, The Rolling Stones and many more.... in Radio Centraal, Ernest Van Dijckkaai, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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