33rd year - N° 365 Monday, 31 December 2018

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33rd year - N° 365 Monday, 31 December 2018

31 December / Today's 23 Events:

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(-) 1683 years ago Tuesday 31st of December 0335 33rd Pope Silvester I dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 640 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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(+) 504 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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(+) 149 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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(-) 141 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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(+) 120 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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(-) 120 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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(+) 110 years ago Thursday 31st of December 1908 Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal is born in Buczacz, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

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(x) 96 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 arson during the night of New Year's Eve in Goetheanum, Dornach, Solothurn, Switzerland. One suspect was Jakob Ott, a clockmaker and anthroposophist with positions opposite to those of Steiner. He was seen at the crime scene and most likely died in the fire. However a later report in 2007 claimed he was there to help put the fire out.

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(+) 81 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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(+) 75 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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(+) 75 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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(+) 70 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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(+) 59 years ago Thursday 31st of December 1959 Actor Val Edward Kilmer is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 58 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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(-) 56 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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(-) 52 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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(-) 49 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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(-) 38 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) 36 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) 34 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) 32 years ago Wednesday 31st of December 1986 Noise music band Club Moral play their 61st concert at the New Noise Year's Party in Club Moral, Kattenberg 122, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Also played: H64, Con-Dom, Victor/im, Iron Brotherhood, Export

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(x) 32 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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33rd year - N° 363 Saturday, 29 December 2018

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33rd year - N° 363 Saturday, 29 December 2018

29 December / Today's 33 Events:

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(+) 297 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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(+) 218 years ago Monday 29th of December 1800 Engineer and chemist Charles Goodyear is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 210 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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(-) 193 years ago Thursday 29th of December 1825 Painter Jacques-Louis David is struck by a carriage upon leaving the Théatre de la Monnaie and dies of a stroke at the age of 77 in Rue Léopold 7, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 184 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) 142 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) 128 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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(-) 115 years ago It Was a Good Morning Tuesday 29th of December 1903 Murderess Emily Swan is executed by hanging by William Billington at the age of 42 in Armley Gaol, Gloucester Terrace, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Swan was hanged with 31-year-old John Gallagher for the murder of her husband William. Hooded and noosed on the gallows Swan said "Good morning John" to which Gallagher replied "good morning love".

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(-) 115 years ago It Was a Good Morning Tuesday 29th of December 1903 Murderer John Gallagher is executed by hanging by William Billington at the age of 31 in Armley Gaol, Gloucester Terrace, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Gallagher was hanged with 42-year-old Emily Swan for the murder of her husband William. Hooded and noosed on the gallows Swan said "Good morning John" to which Gallagher replied "good morning love".

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(+) 97 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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(+) 95 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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(+) 95 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 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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(+) 85 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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(+) 82 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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(+) 81 years ago Wednesday 29th of December 1937 Mass murderer Gian Luigi Ferri, originally Gianluigi Ettore Ferri is born in Asmara, Maekel, Ethiopia.

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(+) 80 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) 75 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) 73 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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(+) 72 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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(+) 62 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1956 Victim of Randy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer Michael Joseph Inderbieten is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 61 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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(+) 56 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1962 Serial killer Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky aka The Hippopotamus aka The Balashikha Ripper is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(x) 49 years ago There Was Speculation She Was Fed to the Pigs Monday 29th of December 1969 55-year-old Deputy to Rupert Murdoch Muriel McKay is kidnapped and held for ransom by Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein in 20 Arthur Street, Wimbledon, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The Hosein brothers were arrested on 7 February 1970 and convicted on the charges of blackmail, kidnap and murder without a body at the Old Bailey on 6 October 1970. It was never established what happened to McKay's remains, though there was speculation that the Hoseins had fed them to their pigs.

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(x) 46 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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(-) 45 years ago Saturday 29th of December 1973 Vincent Cruz Mestas is found tortured and killed by serial killer Randy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Thursday 29th of December 1977 Ambrose Griffin is shot dead by serial killer and cannibal Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento in 3734 Robertson Avenue, Sacramento, California, United States.

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(-) 38 years ago Monday 29th of December 1980 Musician Tim James Timothy Hardin dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 39 in Hollywood, California, United States.

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(-) 32 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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(-) 23 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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19 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) 17 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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(-) 9 years ago Tuesday 29th of December 2009 Pakistani-British businessman and drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Xishan Detention Centre, Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur, China. On 12 September 2007 Shaikh was arrested at Ürümqi Airport carrying 4 kilograms (9 lb) of heroin of 84.2% purity hidden in a compartment of his case which was "practically empty" but for a few clothes.

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