29th year - N° 329 Tuesday, 25 November 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 329 Tuesday, 25 November 2014

25 November / Today's 8 Events:

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(+) 170 years ago Monday 25th of November 1844 Automobile designer and manufacturer Karl Benz, originally Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant is born in Rheinstraße 22 Quartier, Mühlburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 108 years ago Sunday 25th of November 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Fritz Wittig is born in Kassel, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 78 years ago Wednesday 25th of November 1936 Start of the trial against 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(+) 68 years ago Monday 25th of November 1946 Serial killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Torso Killer is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 44 years ago Wednesday 25th of November 1970 Poet, writer and actor Yukio Mishima, originally Kimitake Hiraoka commits suicide by Seppuku at the age of 45 in Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces Headquarters, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. The act was to end in Mishima's ritual decapitation by Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita. Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform the decapitation properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. After Mishima was decapitated, Morita also attempted to commit Seppuku and was beheaded by Koga.

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(-) 41 years ago Sunday 25th of November 1973 Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is stabbed through the heart in the prison infirmary by Robert Wilson at the age of 42 in Walpole State Prison, Walpole, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 21 years ago Thursday 25th of November 1993 10-year-old Robert Thompson and 10-year-old Jon Venables are sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for killing 3-year-old Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulger in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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4 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 25th of November 2010 A worn out medieval piece of wood looking like some Gold Coast in my workshop in Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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