Wednesday, December 13, 2017

32nd year - N° 347 Wednesday, 13 December 2017

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32nd year - N° 347 Wednesday, 13 December 2017

13 December / Today's 24 Events:
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496 years ago

Tuesday 13th of December 1521

227th Pope Sixtus V, originally Felice Peretti di Montalto aka Xystus V is born in Grottammare, Marche, Italy.


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277 years ago

Tuesday 13th of December 1740

Composer Franz Xaver Schnizer is born in Bad Wurzach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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235 years ago

Friday 13th of December 1782

Cannibal Blaise Ferrage aka Seyé is broken on the wheel and exposed to die on the gibbet at the age of 25 in Place Saint-Georges, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

A prodigious multitude attended Ferrage's execution to which the monster walked with an unaltered countenance. It is affirmed that the number of women victim of Ferrage's brutality amounted to no less than eighty.


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220 years ago

Wednesday 13th of December 1797

Poet Heinrich Christian Johann Heine is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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154 years ago

Sunday 13th of December 1863

Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof is born in Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany.


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104 years ago

Saturday 13th of December 1913

32-year-old Thief Vincenzo Peruggia known for stealing the Mona Lisa is arrested when he tried to sell the Mona Lisa, stolen by him two-and-a-half years earlier, to an antique dealer in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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92 years ago

Sunday 13th of December 1925

Comedian, actor, singer and dancer Dick Richard Wayne Van Dyke is born in West Plains, Missouri, United States.


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87 years ago

Saturday 13th of December 1930

Murderer Charles Chapin aka The Rose Man of Sing Sing dies of pneumonia at the age of 72 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.


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73 years ago

Wednesday 13th of December 1944

Actress Lupe Vélez, originally María Guadalupe Villalobos aka The Mexican Spitfire commits suicide by an overdose of 80 Seconal pills at the age of 36 in Glendale, California, United States.

Instead of dying from the overdose, Vélez' stomach got upset and she drowned while vomiting in the toilet. A popular belief is that Vélez was unable to face the shame of giving birth to a child out of wedlock. Eventual fathers of the unborn child were actors Harald Maresch, Arturo de Córdova and Gary Cooper.


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72 years ago Sagte Sie "Schnell"

Thursday 13th of December 1945

KZ-Aufseherin in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Irma Ida Ilse Grese aka Die Hyäne von Auschwitz is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 22 in Zuchthaus Hameln, Hameln, Sachsen, Germany.

On this day Grese, two other women and eight men were hanged.


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72 years ago

Thursday 13th of December 1945

Oberaufseherin im KZ Auschwitz Elisabeth Volkenrath is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 26 in Zuchthaus Hameln, Hameln, Sachsen, Germany.

On this day Volkenrath, two other women and eight men were hanged.


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72 years ago Hatte Sie Ihre Gefühle

Thursday 13th of December 1945

KZ-Aufseherin in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Johanna Bormann aka Wiesel is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 52 in Zuchthaus Hameln, Hameln, Sachsen, Germany.

On this day Bormann, two other women and eight men were hanged.


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69 years ago

Monday 13th of December 1948

Musician Ted Theodore Anthony Nugent aka The Atrocious Theodocious aka Motor City Madman is born in Redford, Michigan, United States.


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58 years ago

Sunday 13th of December 1959

Billy Peterson dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Pontiac, Michigan, United States.

Peterson was found dead in the front seat of his car. The exhaust pipe had been bent to lead into the car's front seat in what appeared to be a suicide, but Peterson's body displayed third-degree burns on the back legs and arms, and while his flesh was burned, neither his clothing nor the front seat of the car were damaged in any way. In fact, hairs on the charred portions of the body were not even singed. 


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50 years ago

Wednesday 13th of December 1967

80-year-old Postal worker and would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick is released from a mental hospital. in New Hampshire State Mental Hospital, 36 Clinton Street, Concord, New Hampshire, .

Pavlick planned to blow up President Kennedy in Palm Beach on 11 December 1960.


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50 years ago

Wednesday 13th of December 1967

26-year-old Serial killer Hans van Zon, originally Johannes Marinus van Zon is arrested in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.


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47 years ago

Sunday 13th of December 1970

James Eugene Glass is tortured and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in Houston, Texas, United States.


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47 years ago

Sunday 13th of December 1970

Danny Michael Yates is tortured and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in Houston, Texas, United States.


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46 years ago

Monday 13th of December 1971

46-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.


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44 years ago He Was Madly Harmless

Thursday 13th of December 1973

70-year-old Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber is released from a mental hospital after serving two-thirds of the 25-year maximum sentence he would have received at trial in Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, Queens Village, New York, New York, United States.


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44 years ago

Thursday 13th of December 1973

42-year-old Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim James Warren Jones is arrested for soliciting a vice officer in a cinema-toilet in Westlake Theatre, 638 S. Alvarado Street, MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Jones had been watching 'Dirty Harry'.


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40 years ago

Tuesday 13th of December 1977

9/11 terrorist Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami aka Abu Hashim is born in 'Asir, Saudi Arabia.



12 years ago The Eyes had it

Tuesday 13th of December 2005

Upcoming lonely Christmas atmosphere in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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9 years ago

Saturday 13th of December 2008

Actor Horst Tappert known from Derrick dies of unknown causes at the age of 85 in Planegg, Bayern, Germany.


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