39th year - N° 334 Friday, 29 November 2024

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
39th year - N° 334 Friday, 29 November 2024

29 November / Today's 36 Events:

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(-) 756 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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(-) 381 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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(-) 221 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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(+) 221 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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(+) 165 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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(-) 144 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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(-) 143 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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(-) 130 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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(-) 100 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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(-) 98 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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(+) 91 years ago Wednesday 29th of November 1933 Pop artist James Rosenquist is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.

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(+) 84 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) 73 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) 70 years ago Monday 29th of November 1954 16-year-old Serial killer Ian Brady, originally Ian Duncan Stewart aka The Moors Murderers (with Myra Hindley) is charged with theft and housebreaking in Glasgow Sheriff Court, 40-50 Wilson Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Brady got off with a minimum sentence and moved on probation to live with his mother in Manchester.

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(x) 61 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) 53 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) 51 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) 50 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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(-) 49 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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(-) 47 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) 44 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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(-) 43 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) 43 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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(x) 41 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) 39 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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(-) 38 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) 37 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) 35 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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(-) 29 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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(-) 28 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) 26 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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23 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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(-) 23 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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(x) 22 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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(-) 14 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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(-) 1 years ago Wednesday 29th of November 2023 Politician and diplomat Henry Alfred Kissinger, originally Heinz Alfred Kissinger dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 100 in Kent, Connecticut, United States.

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