35th year - N° 321 Monday, 16 November 2020

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35th year - N° 321 Monday, 16 November 2020

16 November / Today's 26 Events:

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(-) 472 years ago Tuesday 16th of November 1548 Theologian and church reformer Caspar Creuziger aka Cruciger the Elder dies of unknown causes at the age of 44 in Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(x) 334 years ago Saturday 16th of November 1686 48-year-old King of France and Navarre Louis XIV, originally Louis Dieudonné aka Le Roi du Soleil is operated on an anal fistula by Dr. Charles François Felix in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Dr. Felix first practised on several peasants.

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(-) 296 years ago His Was a Slow Death Thursday 16th of November 1724 Thief and gaol-breaker Jack Sheppard aka Gentleman Jack aka Jack the Lad is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Tyburn Tree, Tyburn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Sheppard's slight build had aided his previous prison escapes but it condemned him to a slow death by strangulation from the hangman's noose.

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(x) 171 years ago Friday 16th of November 1849 28-year-old Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is sentenced to death for his allegedly antigovernment activities linked to the radical intellectual group the Petrashevsky Circle in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 151 years ago Tuesday 16th of November 1869 Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is born in Beaufort, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 125 years ago Saturday 16th of November 1895 Composer Paul Hindemith is born in Hanau, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 125 years ago Saturday 16th of November 1895 Actor Jack Virgil Dougherty is born in Bowling Green, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 124 years ago Monday 16th of November 1896 Founder of the British Union of Fascists Oswald Ernald Mosley aka The British Führer is born in 47 Hill Street, Mayfair, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 114 years ago Friday 16th of November 1906 33-year-old Tenor Enrico Caruso is arrested and charged with indecent behaviour for pinching Hannah Graham's bottom in the monkey house in Central Park Zoo, New York, New York, United States. On 23 November 1906 he was fined ten dollars, the maximum fine for disorderly conduct.

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(x) 113 years ago Saturday 16th of November 1907 Oklahoma is admitted as 46th of the United States in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

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(x) 80 years ago Saturday 16th of November 1940 37-year-old Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber leaves his first bomb, a short length of brass pipe filled with gunpowder with an ignition mechanism made of sugar and flashlight batteries, on the window sill in Consolidated Edison Plant, West 64th Street, New York, New York, United States. Metesky's device was found before it could go off. It was wrapped in a note written in distinctive block letters and signed 'F.P.', stating "CON EDISON CROOKS – THIS IS FOR YOU." F.P. stood for 'Fair Play'.

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(+) 67 years ago Monday 16th of November 1953 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Monika Helbing, originally Monika Brigitte Freifrau von Seckendorff-Gudent is born in Flein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 63 years ago Saturday 16th of November 1957 Hair stylist and experimental filmmaker Ross Cannon is born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

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(-) 63 years ago Saturday 16th of November 1957 Bernice Worden is shot dead by murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer in Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States. Upon searching Gein's property, investigators discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed, hung upside down by ropes at her wrists with a crossbar at her ankles. The torso was dressed out like a deer.

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(-) 60 years ago Wednesday 16th of November 1960 Actor Clark William Gable aka The King of Hollywood dies of coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, 1300 N Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States. Ten days before Gable suffered a severe heart attack. There was speculation that Gable's physically demanding role in'The Misfits' contributed to his sudden death soon after filming was completed.

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(x) 54 years ago Wednesday 16th of November 1966 43-year-old Presumed murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is found not guilty of the murder of his pregnant wife Marilyn in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Sheppard had been sentenced to life in prison 12 years earlier.

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(-) 51 years ago Sunday 16th of November 1969 Suzanne Merienne is shot dead by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in 106 rue Faidherbe, Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France.

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(-) 49 years ago Tuesday 16th of November 1971 Heiress, socialite, actress, and fashion model Edie Edith Minturn Sedgwick aka The Girl of the Year dies of acute barbiturate intoxication at the age of 28 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. The coroner ruled Sedgwick's death as 'undetermined/accident/suicide'.

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(x) 44 years ago They Had a Suicide Pact Tuesday 16th of November 1976 36-year-old Double murderer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner's Song attempts to commit suicide by swallowing barbiturates in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States. Gilmore's 20-year-old girlfriend Nicole Barrett did the same in Provo. They both survived.

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(x) 38 years ago Tuesday 16th of November 1982 30-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Christian Klar is arrested near the RAF arms cache 'Daphne' in Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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(x) 36 years ago Friday 16th of November 1984 31-year-old Serial killer Bobby Joe Long, originally Robert Joseph Long aka The Adman Rapist is arrested outside the Main Street Cinema in Tampa, Florida, United States. Long had been watching the movie 'Missing in Action' with Chuck Norris.

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(x) 34 years ago Sunday 16th of November 1986 26-year-old Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker is transferred from the Los Angeles Central Jail to Death Row in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

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(-) 23 years ago Sunday 16th of November 1997 Estelle Magd is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille in 12 Rue de la Forge-Royale, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 21 years ago He Refused to Cooperate Tuesday 16th of November 1999 Multiple murderer Desmond Dominique Jennings is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. At the time of execution Jennings refused to cooperate so a specially trained five-man team used physical force to take him from a holding cell to the death chamber.

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(-) 15 years ago Wednesday 16th of November 2005 Triple murderer Shannon Charles Thomas is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 10 years ago Tuesday 16th of November 2010 Noise music band Club Moral play their 135th concert in Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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