30th year - N° 365 Thursday, 31 December 2015

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30th year - N° 365 Thursday, 31 December 2015

31 December / Today's 22 Events:

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(-) 1680 years ago Tuesday 31st of December 0335 33rd Pope Silvester I dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 637 years ago Thursday 31st of December 1378 209th Pope Callixtus III, originally Alfons de Borja is born in Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

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(+) 501 years ago Thursday 31st of December 1514 Anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius, originally Andries van Wesel is born in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(+) 146 years ago Friday 31st of December 1869 Artist Henri Émile-Benoît Matisse is born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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(-) 138 years ago Monday 31st of December 1877 Painter Gustave Jean Désiré Courbet dies of a liver disease aggravated by heavy drinking at the age of 58 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland.

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(+) 117 years ago Saturday 31st of December 1898 Singer and actress Umm Kulthum, originally Fātimah ʾIbrāhīm as-Sayyid al-Biltāǧī aka The Nightingale of the Nile is born in Tamay e-Zahayra, El Senbellawein, Dakahlia, Egypt. Some sources say Kulthum was born on 4 May 1904.

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(-) 117 years ago Saturday 31st of December 1898 Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 107 years ago Thursday 31st of December 1908 Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal is born in Buczacz, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

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(x) 93 years ago Sunday 31st of December 1922 The Goetheanum, built by 61-year-old Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy is destroyed by fire in Goetheanum, Dornach, Solothurn, Switzerland. Steiner's Goetheanum is destroyed by arson during the night of New Year's Eve, 31 December 1922 - 1 January 1923.

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(+) 78 years ago Friday 31st of December 1937 Actor Anthony Philip Hopkins known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in the movie ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is born in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(+) 72 years ago Friday 31st of December 1943 Singer-songwriter John Denver, originally Henry John Deutschendorf is born in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Friday 31st of December 1943 Actor Ben Kingsley, originally Krishna Bhanji is born in Snainton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 67 years ago Friday 31st of December 1948 Singer-songwriter Donna Summer, originally LaDonna Adrian Gaines aka The Queen of Disco is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 56 years ago Thursday 31st of December 1959 Actor Val Edward Kilmer is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 55 years ago Saturday 31st of December 1960 Serial killer John Allen Muhammad, originally John Allen Williams aka The Beltway Sniper is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.

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(-) 53 years ago Monday 31st of December 1962 Patricia Bissette is raped and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 515 Park Drive, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Saturday 31st of December 1966 Tuula Hoeoek is presumably battered to death by Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey in Rue Laurens, St. Clement, Jersey, United Kingdom. In July 2013 the case was reopened.

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(-) 46 years ago Wednesday 31st of December 1969 Labor leader of the United Mine Workers Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock is shot dead in his house by three hitmen hired by a union political opponent at the age of 59 in East Bethlehem Township, Clarksville, Pennsylvania, United States. Yablonski's wife Margaret and 25-year-old daughter Charlotte were also shot dead. Their bodies were found on 5 January 1970 by Yablonski's son Kenneth.

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(-) 35 years ago The Medium of the Message was Dead Wednesday 31st of December 1980 Philosopher Marshall Herbert McLuhan known for “the medium is the message” dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 69 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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(x) 33 years ago Friday 31st of December 1982 Toshimitsu Ozawa is attacked by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 31 years ago Monday 31st of December 1984 37-year-old Bernhard Hugo Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante turns himself in for the shooting of four robbers in a subway train in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. Goetz shot them on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan on 22 December 1984.

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(x) 29 years ago Wednesday 31st of December 1986 97 die in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Dupont Plaza, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The fire was set with the intention of scaring tourists away by Héctor Escudero Aponte, José Rivera López and Arnaldo Jiménez Rivera, three disgruntled employees of the hotel who were in the middle of a labor dispute with the owners.

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30th year - N° 364 Wednesday, 30 December 2015

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30th year - N° 364 Wednesday, 30 December 2015

30 December / Today's 20 Events:

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(x) 405 years ago Thursday 30th of December 1610 50-year-old Countess and serial killer Erzsébet de Ecsed Báthory aka Die Blutfrau and four of her servants, who were accused of being her accomplices: Dorotya Semtész, Ilona Jó, Katarína Benická and János Újváry aka Ibis aka Fickó are arrested in Csejte Vára, Čachtice, Trenčín, Slowakia. One girl was found dead and one dying in Báthory's castle.

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(+) 150 years ago Saturday 30th of December 1865 Writer Rudyard Joseph Kipling known for his novel ‘Jungle Book’ is born in J.J. School, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, India.

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(+) 129 years ago Thursday 30th of December 1886 Artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare is born in Bloomfield House, Bloomfield Place, King Street, Snow Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 112 years ago Wednesday 30th of December 1903 605 die in Iroquois Theatre fire in Iroquois Theatre, 24–28 West Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States. At the beginning of the second act, a dance number in the popular Drury Lane musical 'Mr. Bluebeard', was in progress when an arc light shorted out and sparks ignited a muslin curtain.

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(+) 106 years ago Thursday 30th of December 1909 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinz Martin is born in Chemnitz, Sachsen, Germany.

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(+) 105 years ago Friday 30th of December 1910 Writer Paul Frederic Bowles is born in Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 87 years ago He Originated Sunday 30th of December 1928 Musician Bo Diddley, originally Ellas Otha Bates aka The Originator is born in McComb, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 83 years ago Friday 30th of December 1932 Trained nurse and triple murderess Daisy de Melker, originally Daisy Louisa Hancorn-Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. De Melker poisoned her husband and son with arsenic. Two other husbands and four children had died suspiciously.

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(+) 81 years ago He Was no Runaway Sunday 30th of December 1934 Singer-songwriter and musician Del Shannon, originally Charles Weedon Westover is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 69 years ago Monday 30th of December 1946 Poet and musician Patti Patricia Lee Smith aka The Godmother of Punk is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 68 years ago Tuesday 30th of December 1947 Art forger Han Henricus Antonius van Meegeren dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Valeriuskliniek, Valeriusplein, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 59 years ago Sunday 30th of December 1956 41-year-old Art vandal Hugo Unzaga Villegas throws a brick at Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' in Musée du Louvre, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France. A psychiatric report on Villegas by Dr. Gouriou on 14 January 1957 found that the man was insane, heard strange voices, and had intended to murder the Argentinean dictator Juan Perón but went instead for the less well protected Mona Lisa.

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(+) 56 years ago Wednesday 30th of December 1959 Actress and comedian Tracey Ullman, originally Trace is born in Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 49 years ago Friday 30th of December 1966 Murderer Stanley Allison Baker is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 37 years ago Saturday 30th of December 1978 32-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness escapes in County Jail, 107 8th Street, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, United States. Bundy piled books and files in his bunk bed under a blanket to simulate his sleeping body and slipped into the crawlspace above his cell. He broke through the ceiling into the apartment of the chief jailer who was out for the evening with his wife, changed into street clothes from the jailer's closet and walked out the front door to freedom.

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(-) 37 years ago Saturday 30th of December 1978 Stephen Dean Holmes is strangled and drowned by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 33 years ago Thursday 30th of December 1982 David M. Block is stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Deerfield, Illinois, United States. Block's body was found on 7 May 1984 in Zion, Illinois.

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(x) 19 years ago Monday 30th of December 1996 Over 100 die in Brahmaputra Mail passenger train bomb explosion in Fakiragram, Assam, India. The Indian government blamed the attack on an Assamese separatist organisation Bodo Security Force.

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(x) 11 years ago Thursday 30th of December 2004 194 die in República Cromañón nightclub fire in República Cromañón, 3060/3066/3070 Bartolomé Mitre, Balvanera, Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina. The blaze was started when a pyrotechnic flare was set off during a concert by the rock group 'Callejeros', and ignited foam in the ceiling. Four of the six doors had been wired shut to keep out "people who would not enter without paying".

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 30th of December 2006 Detail of a blood painting by Hermann Nitsch in a retrospective exhibition in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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30th year - N° 363 Tuesday, 29 December 2015

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30th year - N° 363 Tuesday, 29 December 2015

29 December / Today's 22 Events:

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(+) 294 years ago Monday 29th of December 1721 Courtisane and official chief mistress of King Louis XV Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson aka Madame de Pompadour is born in Rue de Cléry, IIe, Paris, Île-de-France, Belgium.

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(+) 215 years ago Monday 29th of December 1800 Engineer and chemist Charles Goodyear is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 207 years ago Thursday 29th of December 1808 17th President of the United States Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 181 years ago Monday 29th of December 1834 Poet Charlotte Stieglitz commits suicide by driving a dagger through her heart at the age of 28 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 139 years ago Friday 29th of December 1876 92 die in Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Pacific Express Train n° 5 derailment in Ashtabula River Bridge, Edgewood, Ohio, United States. The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The survivors were led, carried and conveyed on sleds to hotels and private houses in the town, there being no hospital. However, people assisting also stole money and valuables from the survivors and dead, $1500 (about $33000 today). Bridge designer Amasa Stone committed suicide seven years later after experiencing financial difficulties with some foundries he had interests in, suffering from severe ulcers that kept him from sleeping and scorn from the public over the disaster.

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(x) 125 years ago Monday 29th of December 1890 Between 175 and 300 Lakota Indians are massacred by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside in Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, United States.

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(+) 94 years ago Thursday 29th of December 1921 Founder of the Solar Lodge secret society Georgina Jean Brayton aka Soror Capricornus is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 92 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1923 Presumed murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 92 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1923 Victim of Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Merle Collison is born in Great Falls, Montana, United States.

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(-) 89 years ago Wednesday 29th of December 1926 Poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, originally René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Clinique de Valmont, Route de Valmont, Glion sur Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland. Rilke suffered ulcerous sores in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines and he struggled with increasingly low spirits.

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(+) 82 years ago Friday 29th of December 1933 Quaker and anti-war protester Norman Morrison is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Tuesday 29th of December 1936 Actress Mary Tyler Moore known from The Mary Tyler Moore Show is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 77 years ago Thursday 29th of December 1938 Actor Jon Jonathan Vincent Voight is born in Yonkers, New York, United States.

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(x) 72 years ago Wednesday 29th of December 1943 12-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is charged with burglary and committed to the Lyman School for Boys in Lyman School for Boys, Lyman School Road, Westborough, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 70 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1945 Augusta Gein dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son 39-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 69 years ago Sunday 29th of December 1946 Singer-songwriter Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is born in Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 58 years ago Sunday 29th of December 1957 The skeletonised remains of 19-year-old Victim of Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer Judy Ann Dull, originally Judith Ann Van Horn Dull are found in a shallow grave in Thousand Palms, Indio, California, United States. Dull was abducted, raped and strangled on 1 August 1957. Glatman took several photos before and after the murder.

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(x) 43 years ago Friday 29th of December 1972 101 die in Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar Flight 401 crash in Area 3A, The Everglades, Florida, United States. The crash occurred as a result of the entire flight crew becoming preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light and failing to notice the autopilot had inadvertently been disconnected. 75 people survived.

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(-) 29 years ago Monday 29th of December 1986 Film director Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky dies of lung cancer at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 20 years ago Friday 29th of December 1995 Actress Lita Grey, originally Lillita Louise MacMurray dies of cancer at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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16 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 29th of December 1999 Late night dinner at my favourite foodstall at the busstop in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 14 years ago Saturday 29th of December 2001 291 die in Mesa Redonda shopping center fire in Mesa Redonda, Lima, Lima Metropolitana, Peru. The fire started when a fireworks display created a chain reaction, setting off the fireworks of other nearby vendors. The aftermath created a "wall of fire" that spread for four blocks and raged for several hours.

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