39th year - N° 349 Saturday, 14 December 2024

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39th year - N° 349 Saturday, 14 December 2024

14 December / Today's 29 Events:

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(+) 521 years ago His Birth Was Foreseen Monday 14th of December 1503 Apothecary and seer Nostradamus, originally Michel de Nostredame known for his collections of prophecies is born in Rue Hoche, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France.

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(-) 225 years ago Saturday 14th of December 1799 Founding Father and 1st President of the United States George Washington dies of epiglottitis and hypovolemic shock after a ride in snow and rain around his estate at the age of 67 in Mount Vernon, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 159 years ago Thursday 14th of December 1865 Serial poisoner George Chapman, originally Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski aka The Borough Poisoner is born in Nagórna, Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland.

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(+) 145 years ago Sunday 14th of December 1879 Murder plotter Arthur Covell is born in Geuda Springs, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 128 years ago Monday 14th of December 1896 Surrealist poet Paul Éluard, originally Eugène Émile Paul Grindel is born in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 121 years ago Monday 14th of December 1903 Murderer William H. Ennis is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. Ennis was the first policeman to be executed by the Electric Chair.

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(x) 113 years ago Thursday 14th of December 1911 39-year-old Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen becomes the first man to reach the South-Pole in Polheim, the South Pole. Amundsen arrived at Polheim (Home at the Pole) along with four other members of his expedition: Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel.

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(+) 111 years ago Sunday 14th of December 1913 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Friedrich Abeling is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 101 years ago Friday 14th of December 1923 Writer Gerard Reve, originally Gerard Kornelis van het Reve is born in Van Hallstraat 25, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 97 years ago She Was a Gas Wednesday 14th of December 1927 Radical artist and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, originally Else Hildegard Plötz aka The Dadaist Baroness dies of gas suffocation at the age of 53 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. von Freytag-Loringhoven may have forgotten to turn the gas off, someone else may have turned it on, or it may have been an intentional act.

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(+) 89 years ago Saturday 14th of December 1935 Actress Lee Ann Remick is born in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 85 years ago Thursday 14th of December 1939 Frau Jablinski is stabbed in the head by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Jablinski survived and later testified against Ogorzow.

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(-) 81 years ago Tuesday 14th of December 1943 Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 78 years ago Saturday 14th of December 1946 Actress and singer Jane Mallory Birkin is born in Marylebone, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 72 years ago Sunday 14th of December 1952 Ethel Simpson, originally Simpson Waddington is gassed and strangled by serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 65 years ago Monday 14th of December 1959 Ethel Little is tortured to death by an unidentified sexual deviate at the age of 53 in 1220 NW Thirty-first Street, Miami, Florida, United States. Little was confronted in her own home and savagely attacked and died of shock and blood loss. One of her breasts had been cut off and stuck onto a bedroom dresser mirror. Over 4000 palm prints were taken but a suspect was never found.

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(x) 56 years ago Saturday 14th of December 1968 47-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs 'Ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee' in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 48 years ago Tuesday 14th of December 1976 35-year-old Serial killer Marcel Henri Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre is arrested after eight years of terror in Nogent-sur-Oise in Martinets, Montataire, Oise, France.

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(-) 47 years ago Wednesday 14th of December 1977 Kimberly Diane Martin is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 2006 N. Alvarado, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 47 years ago Wednesday 14th of December 1977 Marilyn Moore is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Prince Philip Playing Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Moore had been hit eight times with the hammer and had bruises on her hands where she had tried to protect her head. Due to the severity of Moore's injuries the police thought that her description of her suspect might not be reliable.

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(-) 35 years ago Thursday 14th of December 1989 Nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov dies of arrhythmia consequent to dilated cardiomyopathy at the age of 68 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(-) 25 years ago Tuesday 14th of December 1999 Murderer Robert Ronald Atworth is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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25 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 14th of December 1999 A busdriver manoeuvering his vehicle through the traffic jam in Thanon Samdet Phra Pin Klao, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(-) 21 years ago He Was a Visitor Sunday 14th of December 2003 Musician Patrick Miller aka Minimal Man dies of unknown causes at the age of 51 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 19 years ago Wednesday 14th of December 2005 Murderer John B. Nixon is executed by lethal injection at the age of 77 in Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi, United States. Nixon's last meal request was for a well-done T-bone steak, buttered asparagus spears, a baked potato with sour cream, peach pie, vanilla ice cream and sweet tea.

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(x) 13 years ago Wednesday 14th of December 2011 143 die in home-brewed alcoholic beverage known as chepti poisoning in Sangrampur, West Bengal, India. The Government of West Bengal arrested seven people for distributing the liquor.

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(x) 12 years ago Friday 14th of December 2012 53-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Sower of Fear' in Musis Sacrum, Koningsplein 12, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands.

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(-) 12 years ago Friday 14th of December 2012 School shooter Adam Peter Lanza commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 20 in Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut, United States. Before Lanza shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven years old and six adult staff members with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle and Glock 20SF handgun. Before driving to the school Lanza shot and killed his 52-year-old mother Nancy at their Newtown home.

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(-) 11 years ago Saturday 14th of December 2013 Actor Peter Seamus O'Toole dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Wellington Hospital, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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