39th year - N° 341 Friday, 6 December 2024

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39th year - N° 341 Friday, 6 December 2024

6 December / Today's 39 Events:

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(+) 603 years ago Thursday 6th of December 1421 King of England Henry VI of England is born in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 394 years ago Friday 6th of December 1630 Painter Peter Paul Rubens is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 366 years ago Friday 6th of December 1658 Writer and philosopher Baltasar Gracián y Morales dies of physical decline at the age of 57 in Tarazona, Aragón, Spain.

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(-) 219 years ago Friday 6th of December 1805 Painter, balloonist, army officer and inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté known for his invention of the modern pencil dies of unknown causes at the age of 50 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 199 years ago Tuesday 6th of December 1825 Doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard is born in Southsea, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 117 years ago Friday 6th of December 1907 362 die in coal mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, United States.

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(+) 116 years ago This Baby Had a Face Sunday 6th of December 1908 Gangster Baby Face John Nelson, originally Lester Joseph Gillis is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 112 years ago Friday 6th of December 1912 49-year-old Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt discovers the buste of Queen Nefertete in Achet-Aton, Minya, Egypt.

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(+) 107 years ago Thursday 6th of December 1917 Kamal Fouad Jumblatt is born in Moukhtara, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

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(x) 107 years ago Thursday 6th of December 1917 2000 die in SS Mont-Blanc explosion in The Narrow, Richmond, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives that collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the SS Mont-Blanc ignited her explosive cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District.

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(-) 101 years ago Thursday 6th of December 1923 Adolf Hennies is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 96 years ago Thursday 6th of December 1928 Murderer Chung-yi Miao is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 28 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(-) 86 years ago Tuesday 6th of December 1938 Serial poisoner Martha Marek, originally Löwenstein is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 34 in Wiener Landesgericht, Landesgerichtsstraße 11, Josefstadt, Wien, Wien, Austria. Marek poisoned her husband Emil, her daughter Ingeborg, an elderly relative Suzanne Lowenstein and Felicitas Kittsteiner, a lodger in her house.

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(+) 83 years ago He Was Born to Raise Hell Saturday 6th of December 1941 Mass murderer Richard Benjamin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell is born in Kirkwood, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Saturday 6th of December 1941 Artist Bruce Nauman is born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 6th of December 1942 Writer and political activist Peter Handke is born in Griffen, Kärnten, Austria.

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(-) 81 years ago Monday 6th of December 1943 Madge Knight dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 45 in Aldingbourne, Sussex, United Kingdom. On the night of 18 November 18 Knight's screams woke her husband and sister in their home. They discovered Knight writhing in pain in her bed with her skin peeling off her back under her bedclothes. A doctor that was called identified the wounds as some form of burn and gave Knight morphine. She died from toxaemia.

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(+) 66 years ago Saturday 6th of December 1958 Double murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood is born in Belton, Texas, United States.

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(-) 63 years ago Wednesday 6th of December 1961 Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon dies of leukemia at the age of 36 in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. Fanon's body was moved to a martyrs' chouhada graveyard at Ain Kerma in eastern Algeria.

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(x) 60 years ago Sunday 6th of December 1964 16-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer is committed to a maximum-security facility for the shooting of his grandparents on 27 August 1964 in Atascadero State Hospital, Atascadero, California, United States. Tests during Kemper's time at Atascadero revealed that he had an I.Q. of 136. Later during adulthood he tested at 145. Kemper was released from prison in 1969 after serving fewer than five years. At the time of his release he had grown to 2,06 m and weighed close to 130 kg.

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(x) 59 years ago Monday 6th of December 1965 Start of the committal proceedings against Serial killers the Moors Murderers aka Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in Hyde Magistrate's Court, Market Street, Hyde, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(x) 59 years ago Monday 6th of December 1965 125 die in bus collision in Sotouboua, Centrale, Togo. Two buses crashed into a crowd of dancers.

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(-) 55 years ago Saturday 6th of December 1969 Black art student and music fan Meredith Curly Hunter aka Murdock is stabbed to death by Hells Angel Alan Passaro at the age of 18 in Altamont Speedway Free Festival, Altamont, California, United States. During a scuffle in front of the stage Hunter took s long-barreled black .22 caliber revolver from his jacket and pointed it in the air. Passaro stabbed Hunter five times in the upper back. Witnesses also reported Hunter was stomped on by several Hells Angels while he was on the ground.

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(x) 55 years ago Saturday 6th of December 1969 Bombing of several Chicago police cars parked in a precinct parking lot by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was a protest of the fatal police shooting of Illinois Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on 4 December 1969.

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(x) 51 years ago Thursday 6th of December 1973 39-year-old Serial killer Juan Vallejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer is stabbed 32 times in his cell for bumping into a fellow inmate in California Medical Facility, Vaccaville, California, United States. Corona's left eye was removed in surgery.

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(-) 39 years ago Friday 6th of December 1985 Serial killer Carroll Edward Cole aka Silent Rage is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Nevada State Prison, 3301 E. 5th Street, Carson City, Nevada, United States.

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(x) 39 years ago Friday 6th of December 1985 Twenty-seventh bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC on a Nato-pipeline in Wortegem-Petegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. It was the fifth action in their 'Campagne Pierre Akkerman'.

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(-) 36 years ago All He Had to Do Was Dream Tuesday 6th of December 1988 Singer-songwriter Roy Kelton Orbison aka Big O dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Caudill Drive 166, Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States.

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(-) 35 years ago He Was Fighting Feminism Wednesday 6th of December 1989 Mass murderer Marc Lépine, originally Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi aka The Women-Hating Rambo commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 25 in École Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the twenty minutes before Lépine shot dead fourteen women and injured fourteen people more. Lépine separated the women from about 50 men, instructing the men to leave and stated that he was "fighting feminism" and opened fire. Lépine continued through the second and third floors, targeting women only. The victims were 21-year-old Geneviève Bergeron, 23-year-old Hélène Colgan, 23-year-old Nathalie Croteau,  22-year-old Barbara Daigneault, 21-year-old Anne-Marie Edward, 29-year-old Maud Haviernick, 25-year-old Maryse Laganière, 23-year-old Maryse Leclair, 22-year-old Anne-Marie Lemay, 28-year-old Sonia Pelletier, 21-year-old Michèle Richard, 23-year-old Annie St-Arneault, 20-year-old Annie Turcotte and 31-year-old Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz. Lépine's inside jacket pocket contained a suicide letter containing a list of nineteen Quebec women whom Lépine apparently wished to kill because he considered them feminists.

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(-) 34 years ago Thursday 6th of December 1990 Heidemarie Heidi Hammerer is strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. Hammerer was found on 31 December 1990.

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(x) 31 years ago Monday 6th of December 1993 Four bomb-letters by 44-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs arrive at various locations in Wien, Wien, Austria. Three of Fuchs' letters were detected before they explode on opening the fourth, one women got injured.

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(-) 30 years ago Tuesday 6th of December 1994 Serial rapist and murderer Robert Charles Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. At the time of his arrest Clark was wanted for the rape of 33 women. Clark later confessed to the police that he had actually raped and attacked more than 100 women.

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(-) 29 years ago Wednesday 6th of December 1995 Neo-Nazi and double murderer Robert Earl O'Neal is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Missouri State Penitentiary, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson, Missouri, United States. O'Neal was the first white man executed for the murder of a black man, inmate Arthur Dade on 2 February 1984.

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(-) 29 years ago Wednesday 6th of December 1995 Murderer Bernard Eugene Amos 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) 29 years ago She Fed the Dogs Wednesday 6th of December 1995 39-year-old Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Paul Alain Dutroux is imprisoned for car theft in Prison de Jamioulx, Rue Vandamme 120, Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes, Hainaut, Belgium. While Dutroux is in prison, kidnapped 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo starve to death in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle. Dutroux' wife Michelle Martin allegedly fed her husband's German shepherd dogs but did not follow his orders to feed the girls.

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25 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 6th of December 1999 A bouncer on one of the 'Four Floors' in Orchard Towers, Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 24 years ago Wednesday 6th of December 2000 Multiple murderer and cop killer Daniel Joe Hittle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. When 48-year-old Garland police officer Gerald Walker stopped Hittle for speeding, Hittle shot him in the chest at close range. He then proceded to Mary Goss' home, kicked in the door and opened fire, killing 39-year-old Goss, 36-year-old Richard Cook Jr. and 19-year-old Raymond Gregg. After reloading Hittle shot Goss' 4-year-old daughter Christy Condon. Hittle was on parole for killing his adoptive par ents at the time of the murders.

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(-) 22 years ago Friday 6th of December 2002 Murderer Ernest West Basden is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 7 years ago Wednesday 6th of December 2017 Singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Hallyday, originally Jean-Philippe Smet aka The French Elvis dies of lung cancer at the age of 74 in La Savannah, Marnes-la-Coquette, Île-de-France, France.

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39th year - N° 340 Thursday, 5 December 2024

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39th year - N° 340 Thursday, 5 December 2024

5 December / Today's 39 Events:

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(+) 581 years ago Tuesday 5th of December 1443 216th Pope Julius II, originally Giuliano della Rovere is born in Albisola, Liguria, Italy.

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(x) 434 years ago Wednesday 5th of December 1590 The papacy of 55-year-old 229th Pope Gregorius XIV, originally Niccolò Sfondrato begins in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 242 years ago Thursday 5th of December 1782 8th President of the United States Martin Van Buren is born in Kinderhook, New York, United States.

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(-) 233 years ago War Er Fieberisch Monday 5th of December 1791 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, originally Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart dies of 'hitziges Frieselfieber' at the age of 35 in Alsergrund, Wien, Wien, Austria. Researchers have posited at least 118 causes of Mozart's death, including acute rheumatic fever, streptococcal infection, trichinosis, influenza, mercury poisoning and a rare kidney ailment.

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(-) 199 years ago Monday 5th of December 1825 Johann Mosees is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

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(-) 154 years ago Monday 5th of December 1870 Writer Alexandre Dumas, originally Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie known for Les Trois Mousquetaires dies of natural causes at the age of 68 in Puys, Seine-Maritime, France.

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(+) 134 years ago Friday 5th of December 1890 Film director Fritz Friedrich Christian Anton Lang is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 133 years ago Saturday 5th of December 1891 Constructivist and productivist artist Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 123 years ago Thursday 5th of December 1901 Film director and animator Walt Walter Elias Disney is born in 2156 North Tripp Avenue, Hermosa, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 119 years ago Tuesday 5th of December 1905 Film director Otto Ludwig Preminger is born in Vyzhnytsya, Chernivtsi, Austria-Hungary.

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(x) 109 years ago Sunday 5th of December 1915 46-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais rents a villa in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 99 years ago Saturday 5th of December 1925 Victim of Leslie Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer Wesley Whitney Kerr is born in Dayton, Tennessee, United States.

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(-) 98 years ago Sunday 5th of December 1926 Impressionist painter Claude Oscar Monet dies of lung cancer at the age of 86 in Maison Monet, 84 Rue Claude Monet, Giverny, Eure, France.

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(x) 94 years ago Friday 5th of December 1930 66 die in sulphurous anhydride poison gas cloud in Liège, Liège, Belgium. In the fatal cases an acute circulatory insufficiency set in, with rapid and poor pulse, face pale - more rarely cyanotic - and an extension of the cardiac dulness. Other symptoms were changes in the tone of the voice, increasing to hoarseness, nausea, occasional vomiting, and lachrymation.

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(+) 92 years ago Monday 5th of December 1932 Musician Little Richard, originally Richard Wayne Penniman is born in Macon, Georgia, United States.

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(-) 82 years ago Saturday 5th of December 1942 Baronet and murderer Jock John Henry Delves Broughton aka Sir Murder commits suicide by an overdose of morphine tablets at the age of 59 in Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. The inquest recorded a verdict of suicide while the balance of Broughton's mind was disturbed.

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(x) 77 years ago Friday 5th of December 1947 The remains of 72-year-old Occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter and mountaineer Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast are cremated in Woodvale Crematorium, Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom. About a dozen people attended and Louis Wilkinson read excerpts from the Gnostic Mass, The Book of the Law, and Hymn to Pan. Crowley's ashes were sent to Karl Germer in the United States, who buried them in his garden in Hampton, New Jersey.

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(x) 77 years ago Friday 5th of December 1947 23-year-old Serial killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher is sentenced to 12 years hard labour in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 75 years ago Monday 5th of December 1949 34-year-old Rapist and murderer Frederick Ducharme is arrested wearing only a raincoat and rubber boots in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ducharme confessed to the murder of 45-year-old spinster Ferne Blanche Fisher when some of her belongings were found in his cottage.

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(+) 73 years ago Wednesday 5th of December 1951 Artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK is born in Arenbergstraat 10, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 71 years ago Saturday 5th of December 1953 22-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man marries Irmgard Beck in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago Wednesday 5th of December 1962 Sophie Clark is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 315 Huntington Avenue, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 58 years ago Monday 5th of December 1966 Murderer Ruben Montoya Cantu is born in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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(-) 58 years ago He Had His Slipper on Monday 5th of December 1966 Physician John Irving Bentley dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 92 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, United States. All that was left of the aged Dr. Bentley was the lower half of his right leg with the slipper still on it. The rest of his body had been reduced to a pile of ashes in the basement below.

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(x) 56 years ago Thursday 5th of December 1968 Start of the trial against 12-year-old Child killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell and Norma Bell in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom. Mary and Norma were charged with two counts of manslaughter.

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(x) 54 years ago They Were All Guilty Saturday 5th of December 1970 Five members of Radical left organisation the Weather Underground are arrested for bomb attacks in New York City, New York, United States. All of the Weather Undergrounders plead guilty.

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(x) 49 years ago Friday 5th of December 1975 39-year-old Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death marries Betty Crawford in Chatham, Pennsylvania, United States. Lucas and Crawford divorced in summer 1977 when she accused him of interfering with her young daughters from her first marriage.

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(-) 45 years ago Wednesday 5th of December 1979 Mira Kosecki is raped and strangled by serial killer Metod Trobec aka The Monster of Dolenja Vas in Stari Log, Primorsko-Goranska, Yugoslavia.

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(-) 41 years ago Monday 5th of December 1983 Film director Robert Burgess Aldrich dies of kidney failure at the age of 65 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Thursday 5th of December 1991 Mass murderer Richard Benjamin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Silver Cross Hospital, 1200 Maple Road, Joliet, Illinois, United States. Speck had been taken to Silver Cross after complaining of chest pains and nausea at Stateville Correctional Center.

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(x) 31 years ago Sunday 5th of December 1993 Third bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Wien, Wien, Austria. Former Viennese Major Helmut Zilk lost a large part of his left hand in the explosion. Two other bomb-letters were detected before they explode.

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(x) 27 years ago He Was Sentenced to 2410 Years Friday 5th of December 1997 30-year-old Serial killer Moses Sithole aka The ABC Killer is sentenced to fifty years imprisonment for thirty-eight murders, twelve years imprisonment for forty rapes, and five years imprisonment for six robberies in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Since Sithole's sentences run consecutively the total effective sentence is one of 2410 years.

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25 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 5th of December 1999 Self-portrait near an abandoned shack on a military airfield in Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 24 years ago Tuesday 5th of December 2000 Murderer Garry Dean Miller is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Miller's last meal were two grilled cheese sandwiches, french fries, ketchup, two boiled eggs, two cinnamon rolls with icing, two cans of grape juice and coffee.

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(-) 21 years ago Friday 5th of December 2003 Murderer Robbie James Lyons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Lyons' final meal was pizza and lasagna, both prepared in accordance with Islamic dietary laws, and a Pepsi.

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(-) 17 years ago He Became Fuckin Famous Wednesday 5th of December 2007 Mass murderer Robert Arthur Hawkins aka The Omaha Mall Gunman commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 19 in Westroads Mall, intersection of 100th and Dodge Streets, Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Hawkins stepped out of the elevator on the third floor and opened fire. He killed eight people and wounded four others over the course of six minutes, before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head near the customer service desk. An hour before the rampage, Hawkins' mother gave the Sarpy County Sheriff's Department his suicide note which stated, "I just want to take a few peices  of shit with me... just think tho, I'm gonna be fuckin famous."

(-) 17 years ago Wednesday 5th of December 2007 Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen dies of heart failure at the age of 79 in Kürten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 17 years ago Wednesday 5th of December 2007 105 die in Ruizhiyuan Mining Company coal mine explosion in Hongdong County, Linfen, Shanxi, China.

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(-) 5 years ago They Could See a Wisp of Steam Thursday 5th of December 2019 Murderer Lee Hall is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 53 in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Hall's last meal request was for Philly cheesesteak, two orders of onion rings, a slice of cheesecake and a Pepsi. Witnesses reported "You could see a wisp of steam or smoke coming off the side of his head."

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