38th year - N° 328 Friday, 24 November 2023

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38th year - N° 328 Friday, 24 November 2023

24 November / Today's 34 Events:

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(+) 391 years ago Wednesday 24th of November 1632 Philosopher Baruch Spinoza, originally Benedito de Espinosa is born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 283 years ago He Had no Recollection of the Hanging Thursday 24th of November 1740 Rapist and murderer William Duell is executed by hanging at the age of 17 in Tyburn Tree, Tyburn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Duell's body hung for about 20 minutes before being cut down. It was then brought to the Surgeon's Hall to be anatomized for a medical training college, a common practice at the time. Duell was stripped and laid on the board about to be dissected when one of the servants noticed that he had begun breathing slowly. Duell's breath got quicker and quicker; he was then bled, and in two hours, he was able to sit upright. That night, he was taken back to Newgate Prison. Duell, suffering from a fever and delirium during his trial and execution, had no recollection of the hanging. Along Duell four other criminals were hanged: Thomas Clock, William Meers, Margery Stanton and Eleanor Munoman who all had been convicted of several burglaries and felonies.

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(+) 239 years ago Wednesday 24th of November 1784 12th President of the United States Zachary Taylor is born in Barboursville, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 159 years ago Thursday 24th of November 1864 Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, originally Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa is born in Château du Bosc, Camjac, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

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(-) 153 years ago Thursday 24th of November 1870 Poet Isidore Ducasse de Lautréamont, originally Isidore-Lucien Ducasse known for Les Chants de Maldoror dies of fever at the age of 24 in 7 Rue de Faubourg-Montmartre, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 139 years ago Monday 24th of November 1884 Murderer Kay Howarth is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(-) 139 years ago Monday 24th of November 1884 Murderer Harry Swindells is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(+) 126 years ago Wednesday 24th of November 1897 Mobster and father of modern organized crime in the United States Charles Luciano, originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano is born in Lercara Friddi, Sicilia, Italy.

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(x) 99 years ago Monday 24th of November 1924 Actor and film director Charles Spencer Chaplin is born in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico. Gray was pregnant, and as Chaplin could have been imprisoned for having sexual relations with a minor, they married in secret to avoid a scandal.

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(-) 97 years ago Wednesday 24th of November 1926 Florence Fithian Monks is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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(+) 94 years ago Sunday 24th of November 1929 Major of San Francisco George Richard Moscone is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(-) 92 years ago the Detective Had a Hole in His Pocket Tuesday 24th of November 1931 FBI Special Agent Albert Laurens Ingle is accidently shot dead when a private detective's gun fell out of his pocket at the age of 28 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Special Agent Ingle was working with a private detective to move a package of evidence that possibly related to a federal crime. The private detective had a pistol in his pocket but the pocket apparently had a hole in it and the pistol fell to the ground, firing and fatally striking Ingle. Ingle was the first Special Agent of the FBI to die in the line of duty but in a non-combat situation.

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(+) 85 years ago Thursday 24th of November 1938 Spree killer Charles Raymond Starkweather aka Little Red is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Friday 24th of November 1944 Poet and writer Jules Julius Anton Deelder aka De Nachtburgemeester van Rotterdam is born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 77 years ago Sunday 24th of November 1946 Artist László Moholy-Nagy, originally László Weisz dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 77 years ago Sunday 24th of November 1946 Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is born in Elisabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, 76 Glen Road, Burlington, Vermont, United States. Conceived out of wedlock to a father who disappeared Bundy's mother, Eleanor Cowell, fled to the sanctuary of the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers. After his birth Bundy was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. He was raised for a while to think that they were his parents and his biological mother was his sister.

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(-) 73 years ago Friday 24th of November 1950 Murderer Norman Goldthorpe is executed by hanging by Harry Kirk at the age of 40 in Norwich Prison, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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(-) 67 years ago Saturday 24th of November 1956 Franz Stöbich is shot dead by serial killer Peter Hößl aka Der Wochenendmörder in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 65 years ago Monday 24th of November 1958 Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Valentina Francesca Suriani is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 60 years ago Sunday 24th of November 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is shot dead by nightclub operator Jack Ruby in Dallas Police Headquarters, 106 S. Harwood, Dallas, Texas, United States.

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(x) 57 years ago Thursday 24th of November 1966 82 die in TABSO Ilyushin Il-18B Flight 101 crash in Svätý Jur, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

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(x) 52 years ago Wednesday 24th of November 1971 Hijacker D.B. Cooper jumps from the back of a Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 Boeing 727-051 after securing 200.000 $ ransom and four parachutes in Mount St. Helens, Washington, United States. Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted FBI investigation D.B. Cooper has never been located or identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in commercial aviation history.

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(x) 39 years ago Saturday 24th of November 1984 Noise music band Club Moral play their 40th concert in De Aanlegsteiger, Vissersdijk 30, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 32 years ago They Let Him Go Sunday 24th of November 1991 Singer-songwriter and musician Freddie Mercury, originally Pharōkh Balsārā‌ known from Queen dies of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS at the age of 45 in Garden Lodge, 1 Logan Place, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 31 years ago Tuesday 24th of November 1992 141 die in China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-300 Flight 3943 crash in Liutang, Guangxi, China.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 24th of November 2001 My final installation 'Daders van Dodingen' for an unusual presentation on the floor along the corridors of a psychiatric hospital in Psychiatrisch Centrum, Weststraat 135, Sleidinge, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 19 years ago Wednesday 24th of November 2004 School attacker Jia Qingyou is executed by the firing squad at the age of 36 in Jinan, Shandong, China.

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(-) 19 years ago Wednesday 24th of November 2004 Writer Arthur Frederick Hailey dies of a stroke at the age of 84 in Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas.

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(-) 13 years ago Wednesday 24th of November 2010 Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy dies peacefully in his sleep at home at the age of 55 in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 11 years ago Saturday 24th of November 2012 117 die in Tazreen Fashion factory fire in Ashulia, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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(x) 6 years ago Friday 24th of November 2017 Noise music band Club Moral play their 149th concert at Reihe M in Stadtgarten, Venloer Straße 40, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 4 years ago She Didn't Apologize Sunday 24th of November 2019 K-pop star Goo Ha-ra commits suicide at the age of 28 in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam, Seoul, Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea. On 26 May 2019 Goo attempted suicide in her apartment and was immediately taken to hospital, after which she apologized for worrying her fans.

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(-) 1 years ago Thursday 24th of November 2022 Murderer, cannibal and writer Issei Sagawa aka The Loving Cannibal dies of complications from pneumonia at the age of 73 in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(-) 1 years ago Thursday 24th of November 2022 Writer and poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger known for his essay ‘Versuch über den Radikalen Verlierer’ dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 93 in Schwabing, München, Bayern, Germany.

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