38th year - N° 334 Thursday, 30 November 2023

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38th year - N° 334 Thursday, 30 November 2023

30 November / Today's 43 Events:

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(+) 356 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1667 Satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, cleric and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Jonathan Swift known for Gulliver’s Travels is born in 7 Hoey's Court, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(-) 249 years ago He Danced a Jig Wednesday 30th of November 1774 Highwayman John Rann aka Sixteen String Jack is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Tyburn Tree, Tyburn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Shortly before Rann was to be hanged, appearing in a specially made pea-green suit adorned by a large nosegay, he enjoyed cheerful banter with both the hangman and the crowd, then danced a jig, before being publicly executed.

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(+) 213 years ago Friday 30th of November 1810 Weapon designer Oliver Fisher Winchester known for the Winchester repeating rifle is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 199 years ago Tuesday 30th of November 1824 Banker and forger Henry Fauntleroy is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 193 years ago He Was not Poisoned Tuesday 30th of November 1830 253rd Pope Pius VIII, originally Francesco Saverio Castiglioni dies of poor health at the age of 69 in Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Certain theories have emerged suggesting that Pius VIII was poisoned but no proof has been found to verify this claim.

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(+) 188 years ago Monday 30th of November 1835 Writer Mark Twain, originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens known the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is born in Florida, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 149 years ago Monday 30th of November 1874 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 138 years ago His Head Had Been Torn Clean from His Shoulders Monday 30th of November 1885 Murderer Robert Goodale is executed by hanging by John Berry at the age of 45 in Norwich Castle, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. When the drop fell, officials were horrified to find that Goodale's head had been torn clean from his shoulders.

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(-) 123 years ago He Died a Catholic Friday 30th of November 1900 Poet and writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde dies of meningitis at the age of 46 in Hôtel d'Alsace, 13, Rue des Beaux-Arts, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Wilde was conditionally baptised into the Catholic Church by Fr Cuthbert Dunne the day before.

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(x) 115 years ago Monday 30th of November 1908 154 die in coal mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 102 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1921 52-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is sentenced to death in 3 Place André Mignot, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 98 years ago Monday 30th of November 1925 Murderer William R. Lloyd is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 87 years ago Monday 30th of November 1936 Political and social activist and anarchist Abbie Abbot Howard Hoffman is born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago Tuesday 30th of November 1937 Cyclist Tom Thomas Simpson is born in Haswell, North East, United Kingdom.

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(+) 86 years ago Tuesday 30th of November 1937 Film director Ridley Scott known for the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner is born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 30th of November 1941 Military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service Ali Hassan al-Majid, originally Alī Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrītī aka Chemical Ali is born in Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq.

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(+) 80 years ago Tuesday 30th of November 1943 Performance artist Frank Uwe Laysiepen aka Ulay is born in Solingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(+) 77 years ago Saturday 30th of November 1946 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ralf Baptist Friedrich is born in Landsweiler-Reden, Saarland, Germany.

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(+) 76 years ago Sunday 30th of November 1947 Mass murderer Robert J. Dreesman is born in Algona, Iowa, United States.

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(-) 70 years ago Monday 30th of November 1953 Cubist painter, poet and typographist Francis Picabia, originally Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia dies of unknown causes at the age of 74 in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 68 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1955 Musician Billy Idol, originally William Michael Albert Broad is born in Stanmore, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

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(-) 67 years ago Friday 30th of November 1956 Rapist and murderer James Franklin Bowman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, United States.

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(x) 66 years ago Saturday 30th of November 1957 32-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey attacks an unidentified 29-year-old nurse in Monte a l'Abbé, Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 66 years ago Saturday 30th of November 1957 Irish republican hunger striker Thomas McElwee, originally Tomas Mac Giolla Bhuidhe is born in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 61 years ago Friday 30th of November 1962 Oskar Seidel is shot dead in the course of a robbery by serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder in Vereinigten Sparkasse Eschenbach, Neuhaus an der Pegnitz, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 61 years ago Friday 30th of November 1962 Triple murderer Lowell Lee Andrews aka The Nicest Boy in Wolcott is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. Andrews' last meal request was for two fried chickens with sides of mashed potatoes, green beans and Pie à la Mode.

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(+) 57 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1966 Murderer James Edward Clayton is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 50 years ago Friday 30th of November 1973 Victim of Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria Stela Truya is born in Durrës, Durrës, Albania.

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(x) 47 years ago Tuesday 30th of November 1976 38-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 53. Aktion in Teatro Out Off, Viale Montesanto, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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(-) 46 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1977 Tina Williams is raped and killed by serial killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

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(x) 42 years ago There Were Two Knives and an Ice Pick Monday 30th of November 1981 Jim Griffin is beaten and threatened by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Chicago, Illinois, United States. At Griffin's home Eyler had turned violent, beating Griffin with his fists, threatening him with two knives and an ice pick.

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(x) 38 years ago Saturday 30th of November 1985 Noise music band Club Moral play their 51st concert in Jazzbunker, Boompjeskade 17, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 37 years ago Sunday 30th of November 1986 Noise music band Club Moral play their 60th concert at the AVE Festival in De Gele Rijder, Korenmarkt 43, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands.

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(-) 34 years ago Thursday 30th of November 1989 Vorstandssprecher der Deutschen Bank Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a sophisticated roadside bomb placed by the Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 59 in Seedammweg, Bad Homborg, Hessen, Germany. The 7 kg bomb was hidden in a bag on a bicycle parked next to the road that the assassins knew Herrhausen would be traveling in his three-car convoy. The bomb was detonated when Herrhausen's car interrupted a beam of infrared light as it passed the bicycle. The bomb targeted the most vulnerable area of Herrhausen's car – the door where he was sitting – and required split-second timing to overcome the car's special armour plating.

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(x) 34 years ago Thursday 30th of November 1989 37-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Verena Christiane Becker is released from prison after 12 years in Justizvollzugsanstalt Willich II, Anrath, Willich, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Becker was pardoned by Bundespresident Richard von Weizsäcker.

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(x) 29 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1994 23-year-old Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac is shot twice in the head, twice in the groin and once in the arm by three unidentified men in Quad Recording Studios, 723 7th Avenue # 10, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Wednesday 30th of November 1994 Theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International Guy Ernest Debord commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 63 in Champot, Bellevue-la-Montagne, Auvergne, France.

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(-) 27 years ago He Was Not Okay Saturday 30th of November 1996 Falsetto singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim, originally Herbert Khaury dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. While singing his most famous song 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis Tim suffered a heart attack on stage. He was led out by his wife Susan Marie Gardner who asked him if he was okay. Tim responded, "No, I'm not!" Those were to be his final words. Tim collapsed shortly thereafter and was rushed to the hospital where he died after doctors tried to resuscitate him for one hour and fifteen minutes.

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(-) 26 years ago Sunday 30th of November 1997 Feminist punk poet Kathy Acker, originally Karen Lehman dies of complications of breast cancer at the age of 50 in American Biologics Clinic, 15 Azucenas Street, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

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(-) 22 years ago Friday 30th of November 2001 Murderer John Hardy Rose is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 16 years ago Friday 30th of November 2007 Daredevil and entertainer Evel Robert Craig Knievel dies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 69 in Clearwater, Florida, United States.

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(x) 16 years ago Friday 30th of November 2007 Noise music band Club Moral play their 131st concert at the 'Kopstoot!' festival in De Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 5 years ago Friday 30th of November 2018 41st President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush dies of Parkinson's disease at the age of 94 in Houston, Texas, United States.

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38th year - N° 333 Wednesday, 29 November 2023

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38th year - N° 333 Wednesday, 29 November 2023

29 November / Today's 34 Events:

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(-) 755 years ago Thursday 29th of November 1268 183rd Pope Clemens IV, originally Guy de Foulques aka Guy le Gros dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 380 years ago Sunday 29th of November 1643 Composer Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

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(-) 220 years ago Tuesday 29th of November 1803 Child killer Caleb Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in Windham, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 220 years ago Tuesday 29th of November 1803 Mathematician and physicist Christian Andreas Doppler known for discovering the Doppler Effect is born in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

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(+) 164 years ago Tuesday 29th of November 1859 Murderer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 143 years ago Monday 29th of November 1880 Murderer Thomas Wheeler known for the Marshal's Wick murder is executed by hanging in St Albans Prison, Grimston Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United States.

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(-) 142 years ago Tuesday 29th of November 1881 Murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton is executed by hanging by William Marwood at the age of 21 in Lewes Prison, Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom. Mapleton became important in the history of forensics and policing as being the subject of the first police composite picture to appear on a wanted poster and in a newspaper.

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(-) 129 years ago Thursday 29th of November 1894 Murderer Thomas Richards is executed by hanging by James Billington at the age of 41 in Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(-) 99 years ago Saturday 29th of November 1924 Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini dies of complications after throat cancer surgery at the age of 66 in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 97 years ago Monday 29th of November 1926 Blanche Myers is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 90 years ago Wednesday 29th of November 1933 Pop artist James Rosenquist is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Friday 29th of November 1940 Singer-songwriter and musician Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty known from The Mamas & the Papas is born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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(x) 72 years ago Thursday 29th of November 1951 46-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess escapes for the fourth time in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Judd was captured about four hours later.

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(x) 60 years ago Friday 29th of November 1963 118 die in Trans-Canada Air Lines Douglas DC-8-54CF Flight 831 crash in Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, Canada.

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(x) 52 years ago The Ransom Was Tax Deductable Monday 29th of November 1971 49-year-old Entrepreneur Theodor Paul 'Theo' Albrecht known for co-founding Aldi supermarket is kidnapped by lawyer Hans Joachim Ollenburg and his accomplice Paul Kron in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Albrecht was released 17 days later after paying a ransom of seven million Deutsche Mark. His kidnappers were eventually caught by authorities but only half of the money was recovered. Albrecht later successfully claimed the ransom as a tax deductible business expense in court.

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(x) 50 years ago Thursday 29th of November 1973 103 die in Taiyo Department Store fire in Taiyo Department Store, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan.

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(x) 49 years ago Friday 29th of November 1974 40-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for taking part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 48 years ago Saturday 29th of November 1975 Racecar driver Graham Norman Hill dies in a Piper PA-23-250D Aztec crash at the age of 46 in Golf Course, Arkley, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. On board with Hill were five other members of the Embassy Hill team who all died: manager Ray Brimble, mechanics Tony Alcock and Terry Richards, driver Tony Brise and designer Andy Smallman.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 29th of November 1977 Lauren Rae Wagner is found raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 1217 Cliff Drive, Glendale, California, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Saturday 29th of November 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'This Week I Was Beaten Up - 2' and 'Eternity Forever - 2' with The Simpletones at Mixage Festival in t'Hooght, Hoogt 4, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. While the Simpletones played their music I was beaten around by a specially hired professional black heavyweight boxer on a stage without any resistance of me.While the Simpletones played their music I tried over and again to build a tower as high as possible with wooden blocks.

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(x) 42 years ago Sunday 29th of November 1981 Noise music band Club Moral play their seventh concert in Usine de Pali-Kao, Rue de Pali-Kao, XXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 42 years ago Sunday 29th of November 1981 Actress Natalie Wood, originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko aka Natasha Gurdin dies of accidental drowning and hypothermia at the age of 43 in Santa Catalina Island, California, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Tuesday 29th of November 1983 Serial killer Michael Wolpert aka Der Neu-Isenburger Frauenmörder is arrested while raping an unidentified girl in Bockenheim, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 38 years ago Friday 29th of November 1985 Noise music band Club Moral play their 50th concert at the Talking Back to the Media festival in Shaffy Theater, Weesperzijde 34III, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 37 years ago Saturday 29th of November 1986 Actor Cary Grant, originally Archibald Alexander Leach dies of a stroke at the age of 82 in St. Luke's Hospital, Davenport, Iowa, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Sunday 29th of November 1987 115 die in Korean Airlines Boeing 707-3B5C Flight 858 bomb explosion in Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea. On their escape, the bombers were arrested in Bahrain. They were 25-year-old Kim Hyon-Hui aka Ok Hwa and 69-year-old Kim Seung Il aka Shinichi Hachiya, who posed as her father, acting on behalf of Kim Jong-Il and the North Korean government. Kim Seung Il bit a cyanide pill that was hidden in a cigarette and died. Kim Hyun Hui unsuccessfully attempted to do the same, but a Bahraini policewoman snatched the cigarette out of her mouth just as she started to ingest the poison.

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(x) 34 years ago Wednesday 29th of November 1989 44-year-old Serial killer Randy Steven Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer is sentenced to death by Judge Donald A. McCartin in Santa Ana, California, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Wednesday 29th of November 1995 Multiple murderer Anthony Joe LaRette is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 27 years ago There Was no Light in His Eyes Friday 29th of November 1996 Minimal artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin dies of complications of diabetes at the age of 63 in Riverhead, New York, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Sunday 29th of November 1998 18-year-old Mass murderer Seth Stephen Privacky kills his 50-year-old parents Stephen C. and Linda Privacky, his 78-year-old grandfather John J. Privacky and his 19-year-old brother and his girlfriend Jedediah J. Privacky and April A. Boss in 1301 W. Riley Thompson, Muskegon, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 22 years ago Thursday 29th of November 2001 Guitarist and singer-songwriter George Harrison known from the Beatles dies of lung cancer at the age of 58 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 29th of November 2001 Two microphones at a free-mic installation in Witte de With, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 21 years ago Friday 29th of November 2002 Noise music band Club Moral play their 90th concert in Imschoot, Burggravenlaan 20, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 13 years ago Monday 29th of November 2010 Film director Mario Monicelli commits suicide by jumping from a window of the hospital at the age of 95 in Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Monicelli had been admitted a few days earlier for prostate cancer.

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