39th year - N° 323 Monday, 18 November 2024

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
39th year - N° 323 Monday, 18 November 2024

18 November / Today's 25 Events:

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(x) 717 years ago Friday 18th of November 1307 Folk hero Wilhelm Tell shoots an apple of his son Walter's head in a single attempt in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland.

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(-) 304 years ago He Was Gibbeted on Display Monday 18th of November 1720 Pirate captain John Rackham aka Calico Jack is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Port Royal, Surrey, Jamaica. Calico Jack's body was then gibbeted on display on a very small islet at a main entrance to Port Royal.

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(-) 240 years ago Thursday 18th of November 1784 Murderer Alexander White is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 199 years ago Friday 18th of November 1825 Murderer James Reynolds is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in New York City, New York, United States. Reynolds' was one of the last public hangings in New York City.

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(-) 146 years ago Monday 18th of November 1878 Mass murderer Joseph Garcia is executed by hanging by William Marwood at the age of 21 in Usk Prison, Usk, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom. Garcia stabbed 40-year-old William Watkins and his 44-year-old wife Elizabeth to death and hacked 8-year-old Charlotte, 5-year-old Frederick and 4-year-old Alice to death with an axe as they lay asleep.

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(-) 138 years ago Thursday 18th of November 1886 21st President of the United States Chester Alan Arthur dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 102 years ago Saturday 18th of November 1922 Dictator of Nicaragua Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle is born in León, León Department, Nicaragua.

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(-) 102 years ago Saturday 18th of November 1922 Writer Marcel Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Proust dies of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 51 in 44 Rue de l'Amiral-Hamelin, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 98 years ago Thursday 18th of November 1926 Wilhelmina Edmunds is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Sunday 18th of November 1945 First female chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Pearl Mankiller is born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States. The family surname Mankiller refers to a traditional Cherokee military rank, it is Asgaya-dihi in the Cherokee language.

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(-) 72 years ago Tuesday 18th of November 1952 Surrealist poet Paul Éluard, originally Eugène Émile Paul Grindel dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in 52 Avenue de Gravelle, Charenton-Le-Pont, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 72 years ago Tuesday 18th of November 1952 Murderer Ernest West Basden is born in Kinston, North Carolina, United States.

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(+) 67 years ago Monday 18th of November 1957 Triple murderer Juan Raul Garza is born in Brownsville, Texas, United States.

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(+) 65 years ago Wednesday 18th of November 1959 Double murderess Karla Faye Tucker aka The Pick Axe Murderess is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago Sunday 18th of November 1962 Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

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(-) 48 years ago He Was Unconcerned but not Indifferent Thursday 18th of November 1976 Artist Man Ray, originally Emmanuel Radnitzky dies of a lung infection at the age of 86 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 47 years ago Friday 18th of November 1977 Tommy Boling is strangled by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 46 years ago Saturday 18th of November 1978 Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim James Warren Jones commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 47 in Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana. That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."

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(-) 46 years ago Saturday 18th of November 1978 Michael Joseph Inderbieten is castrated, tortured and suffocated by serial killer Randy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer in San Diego, California, United States.

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(-) 43 years ago Wednesday 18th of November 1981 Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, originally Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Kempton, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 27 years ago Tuesday 18th of November 1997 56-year-old Besun Yu and 46-year-old Jun Gao are shot dead by 35-year-old Serial killer Louis James Peoples in the course of a robbery in Village Oaks Market, Stockton, California, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago Thursday 18th of November 1999 Murderer Jose Angel Guttierrez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago Thursday 18th of November 1999 Composer and writer Paul Frederic Bowles dies of heart failure at the age of 89 in The Italian Hospital, Tangier, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco.

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(-) 22 years ago Monday 18th of November 2002 Actor James Harrison Coburn dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 74 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 18th of November 2005 Happy visitors at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

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