35th year - N° 356 Monday, 21 December 2020

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35th year - N° 356 Monday, 21 December 2020

21 December / Today's 21 Events:

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(+) 347 years ago Thursday 21st of December 1673 Double murderer Jeremiah Meacham is born in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 338 years ago Monday 21st of December 1682 Pirate captain John Rackham aka Calico Jack is born in Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.

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(-) 145 years ago Tuesday 21st of December 1875 Murderer Henry Wainwright is executed by hanging by William Marwood in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On the scaffold Wainwright shouted: "Come to see a man die, have you, you curs?".

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(x) 109 years ago Thursday 21st of December 1911 Société Générale bank messenger Ernest Caby is robbed and shot by 35-year-old Illegalist Jules Bonnot aka Le Bourgeois known from ‘La Bande à Bonnot’ and his gang in 148 rue Ordener, XVIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. The holdup was the first ever criminal use of a get-away car, a green-and-black 12CV Delaunay-Belleville 1910 model.

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(+) 103 years ago Friday 21st of December 1917 Writer Heinrich Theodor Böll is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 102 years ago Saturday 21st of December 1918 9th President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim is born in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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(-) 85 years ago Saturday 21st of December 1935 Journalist, satirist and writer Kurt Tucholsky aka Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 45 in Hindås, Västergötland, Sweden.

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(x) 84 years ago Monday 21st of December 1936 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(+) 83 years ago Tuesday 21st of December 1937 Actress, political activist and fitness guru Jane Fonda, originally Jayne Seymour Fonda is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 80 years ago Saturday 21st of December 1940 Writer Scott F. Francis Key Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in 1443 North Hayworth Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States.

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(+) 80 years ago He Was Invented by His Mother Saturday 21st of December 1940 Musician and composer Frank Vincent Zappa known from the Mothers of Invention is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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(-) 75 years ago It Was a Hell of a Way to Die Friday 21st of December 1945 War leader George Smith Patton aka Old Blood and Guts dies of pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure at the age of 60 in US Army Meddac Hospital, Freiburger Str. 2, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Patton had been thrown forward and smashed his head into a metal part when the Cadillac Model 75 he was sitting in crashed into a 2 1/2 ton military truck on a pheasant hunting trip on 8 December.

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(x) 69 years ago Friday 21st of December 1951 119 die in Orient No. 2 coal mine explosion in Orient No. 2, West Frankfort, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 68 years ago Sunday 21st of December 1952 Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer is born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 66 years ago Tuesday 21st of December 1954 After deliberating for four days the jury finds 31-year-old Presumed murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard guilty of second-degree murder in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Sheppard was sentenced to life in prison.

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(-) 53 years ago His Heart Lasted Eighteen Days Thursday 21st of December 1967 Louis Washkansky known for becoming the recipient of the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant dies of pneumonia at the age of 54 in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. Washkansky lived eighteen days after the transplant.

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(+) 53 years ago Thursday 21st of December 1967 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal David C. Thomas is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Wednesday 21st of December 1977 38-year-old Serial killer Patrick Wayne Kearney aka The Freeway Killer aka The Trash Bag Killer is given twenty-one life sentences in Riverside, California, United States. Kearney was charged with twenty-one counts of murder and as agreed pleaded guilty.

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(x) 37 years ago Wednesday 21st of December 1983 38-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company is slashed across the cheek with razor by 21-year-old Albert Moffat in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Nilsen needed 89 stitches.

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(x) 32 years ago Wednesday 21st of December 1988 270 die in Pan Am Boeing 747-121 Flight 103 bomb explosion in Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom. The plane was sabotaged by Libyan terrorists. In 2001 Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for the bombing.

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(x) 10 years ago Tuesday 21st of December 2010 41-year-old Serial killer Stephen Shaun Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal is sentenced to life imprionment for three murders in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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