39th year - N° 317 Tuesday, 12 November 2024

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39th year - N° 317 Tuesday, 12 November 2024

12 November / Today's 27 Events:

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(x) 1070 years ago Tuesday 12th of November 0954 13-year-old Carolingian king of West Francia Lothaire IV is crowned by Archbishop Artald of Reims in Abbaye Saint-Remi, Reims, Marne, France.

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(+) 376 years ago Thursday 12th of November 1648 Nun, writer and women's rights activist Juana Inés de la Cruz, originally Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana aka The Mexican Phoenix is born in San Miguel Nepantla, Mexico, Mexico.

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(+) 191 years ago Tuesday 12th of November 1833 Composer Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. Borodin was an illegitimate son of a Georgian noble, Luka Gedevanishvili, and 24-year-old Russian Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonov.

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(+) 184 years ago Thursday 12th of November 1840 Artist Auguste François René Rodin is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 158 years ago Monday 12th of November 1866 Revolutionary leader and medical practitioner Yat-sen Sun aka The Father of the Nation is born in Cuiheng, Guangdong, China.

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(+) 124 years ago Monday 12th of November 1900 Spree killer Stanley Eric George Graham is born in Kokatahi, West Coast, New Zealand.

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(-) 115 years ago Friday 12th of November 1909 Murderer James A. Finch is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 109 years ago Friday 12th of November 1915 Literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and semiotician Roland Gérard Barthes is born in Cherbourg, Normandie, France.

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(x) 96 years ago Monday 12th of November 1928 11 die in SS Vestris shipwreck in Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 95 years ago Tuesday 12th of November 1929 Actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Patricia Kelly is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 90 years ago Maddox Had No Name Monday 12th of November 1934 Family leader Charles Milles Manson, originally no name Maddox known for conspiracy to murder Sharon Tate is born in General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Manson was born to unmarried 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox. He was first named 'no name Maddox'.

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(+) 79 years ago Monday 12th of November 1945 Singer-songwriter and musician Neil Percival Young aka The Godfather of Grunge known from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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(+) 68 years ago Monday 12th of November 1956 Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper Jean Bernadette Jordan, originally Jean Royle is born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 58 years ago He Wanted to Get Known Saturday 12th of November 1966 18-year-old Mass murderer Robert Benjamin Smith forces five women and two children into a back room and systematically shoots them in the head, killing five of them in Rose-Mar College of Beauty, 42 North Stapley Drive, Mesa, Arizona, United States. Smith told police as they walked him away from the carnage with a big grin on his face "I wanted to get known, just wanted to get myself a name." The five fatalities were 27-year-old Joyce Sellers and her 3-year-old daughter Debbie, 18-year-old Glenda Carter, 18-year-old Mary Olsen and 19-year-old Carol Farmer.

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(x) 52 years ago Sunday 12th of November 1972 26-year-old Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Deadman' in Riko Mizuno Gallery, 669 North La Cienega Boulevard, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. At 8 p.m. I lay down on La Clenega Boulevard and was covered completely with a canvas tarpaulin. Two fifteen- minute flares were placed near me to alert cars. Just before the flares extinguished, a police car arrived. I was arrested and booked for causing a false emergency to be reported. Trial took place in Beverly Hills. After three days of deliberation, the jury failed to reach to decision, and the judge dismissed the case.

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(-) 47 years ago Saturday 12th of November 1977 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ingrid Schubert commits suicide by hanging at the age of 33 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stadelheim, Stadelheimer Straße 12, Giesing, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 43 years ago He Lay on the Fourth Floor for Four Days Thursday 12th of November 1981 Actor William Holden, originally William Franklin Beedle Jr. dies of exsanguination at the age of 63 in Ocean Avenue #535, Santa Monica, California, United States. Holden, alone and intoxicated slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a teak bedside table and bled to death. He was found in his apartment on the fourth floor, number 43, four days later.

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(-) 40 years ago Monday 12th of November 1984 Paule Victor is suffocated by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 8 rue Keller, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 40 years ago Monday 12th of November 1984 Kim Marie Swann is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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(-) 38 years ago Wednesday 12th of November 1986 Gauleiter in East Prussia Erich Koch dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Mokotów Prison, ul. Rakowieckiej 37, Barczewo, Województwo Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Poland.

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(-) 33 years ago He Used an Obscenity to Describe Life Tuesday 12th of November 1991 Murderer G. W. Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. As the lethal drugs flowed into Green's arms he used an obscenity to describe life, gasped once and made no further movement.

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(x) 28 years ago Tuesday 12th of November 1996 349 die in Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-168B Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin II-76 Flight 1907 mid-air collision in Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India.

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(x) 27 years ago He Had a Map of Future Targets Wednesday 12th of November 1997 35-year-old Serial killer Louis James Peoples is arrested in Stockton, California, United States. Peoples was in possession of a backpack that had a stolen badge and identification card belonging to an Alameda County sheriff's deputy. Missing was the deputy's .40-caliber Glock that was later found buried in a muddy field. The gun was linked to four deaths that occurred over a two-week period. A map found in Peoples' home pinpointed the known attacks as well as future targets.

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(-) 25 years ago Friday 12th of November 1999 Murderer Leroy Joseph Drayton aka Ricky is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Broad River Correctional Institution, Columbia, South Carolina, United States.

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(x) 23 years ago Monday 12th of November 2001 265 die in American Airlines Airbus A300-600 Flight 587 crash in Belle Harbor, Queens, New York, New York, United States. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the cause of the crash was overuse of the rudder mechanism.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 12th of November 2005 Blood on the floor in the open-air slaughterhouse in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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(-) 17 years ago Monday 12th of November 2007 Writer Ira Marvin Levin known for Rosemary’s Baby dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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