40th year - N° 349 Monday, 15 December 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 40th year - N° 349 Monday, 15 December 2025

15 December / Today's 24 Events: (+) 1988 years ago  Tuesday 15th of December 0037 5th Emperor of the Roman Empire Nero, originally Nerō Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus is born in Antium, Lazio, Italy. (-) 264 years ago He Jumped Twice Tuesday 15th of December 1761 Murderer John M'Naughton is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Strabane, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. M'Naughton desired the executioner to be speedy and when the fellow pointed to the ladder he mounted with great spirit. The moment he was tied up he jumped from it with such vehemence that the rope snapped and he fell to the ground without dislocating his neck or doing himself much injury. When they had raised M'Naughton on his legs again he soon recovered his senses. The executioner then borrowed the rope from M'Naughton's accomplice Dunlap and fixed it round M'Naughton's neck. M'Naughton went up the ladder a second time and tying the rope himself to the gallows, jumped from it again with the same force and appeared dead in a minute. (+) 193 years ago  Saturday 15th of December 1832 Engineer and architect Gustave Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel is born in Dijon, Bourgogne, France. (x) 170 years ago  Saturday 15th of December 1855 31-year-old Serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners is arrested and charged with the poisoning of John Parsons Cook in Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. When detained at Stafford Gaol Palmer threatened to go on hunger strike but backed down when the governor informed him that this would lead to him being force fed. (+) 133 years ago  Thursday 15th of December 1892 Industrialist Jean Paul Getty aka The Richest Living American is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. (x) 104 years ago  Thursday 15th of December 1921 24-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderergraduates from the university as a doctor of medicine with the tract ‘Contributions to the study of Acute Progressive Paralysis’ in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Acute Progressive Paralysis was a disease Henri Desiré Landru was suffering from. (+) 104 years ago  Thursday 15th of December 1921 Disc jockey and radio presenter Alan Albert James Freed aka Moondog is born in Windber, Pennsylvania, United States. (x) 95 years ago  Monday 15th of December 1930 60-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is committed to the Bellevue Hospital for a 10-day observation after sending obscenities through the mail in New York City, New York, United States. (+) 95 years ago  Monday 15th of December 1930 Victim of The Manson Family Rosemary LaBianca, originally Ruth Katherine Elliott is born in Mexico. At age 8 Ruth Kathyrn Elliott was adopted by the Harmons in Fullerton who had lost their own daughter to disease. The Harmonsrenamed her after their deceased daughter and thus Ruth became Rosemary. (x) 81 years ago His Carburetor Iced Up Friday 15th of December 1944 40-year-old Trombonist, arranger, composer and bandleader Glenn Alton Miller departs with his a single-engine UC-64 Norseman airplane for Paris in RAF Twinwood Farm, Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Miller's plane probably crashed above the English Channel because of its carburetor which was of a type known to ice up in cold weather. (-) 71 years ago  Wednesday 15th of December 1954 Murderess Styllou Pantopiou Christofi is executed by hanging at the age of 54 in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (x) 64 years ago  Friday 15th of December 1961 55-year-old SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Otto Eichmann is sentenced to death in Jerusalem District Court, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. (x) 60 years ago  Wednesday 15th of December 1965 27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 16. Aktion in his studio in Wien, Wien, Austria. (-) 59 years ago  Thursday 15th of December 1966 Film director and animator Walt Walter Elias Disney dies of acute circulatory collapse caused by lung cancer at the age of 65 in Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, California, United States. (x) 58 years ago  Friday 15th of December 1967 21-year-old Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder is sentenced to life imprisonment in Landgericht Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. (x) 55 years ago  Tuesday 15th of December 1970 323 die in Namyong Ho ferry capsizing in the Korea Strait. Only 12 people survived. (x) 54 years ago He Was Two Johns Wednesday 15th of December 1971 25-year-old Mass murderer John Linley Frazier aka The Killer Prophet is convicted to die in the Gas Chamber in Santa Cruz, California, United States. On the first day of the trial Frazier appeared in court with a new look representing the two sides of a hippie. One side had long hair and a long beard and the other side was totally bald with no beard. (x) 54 years ago  Wednesday 15th of December 1971 28-year-old Serial killer Manfred Wittmann aka The Beast of Oberfranken is sentenced to three life sentences in Coburg, Bayern, Germany. (x) 52 years ago  Saturday 15th of December 1973 17-year-old Playboy John Paul Getty is found in an abandoned petrol station after a 5-month kidnap in Lauria, Basilicata, Italy. A ransom of 2.2 Million Dollars —the maximum amount that was tax deductible— was paid by his grandfather Jean Paul and Getty’s ear had been cut off. (-) 50 years ago  Monday 15th of December 1975 Cornelia Hemker aka Cocky is murdered by serial killer Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood in Rangsit, Central Thailand, Thailand. Their bodies were found burned on the beach the next day. (-) 36 years ago  Friday 15th of December 1989 Darlene Trippi is beaten to death by serial killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer in Salmon Creek, Rochester, New York, United States. Trippi was found on 5 January 1990. (-) 32 years ago  Wednesday 15th of December 1993 Double murderer Clifford X. Phillips is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 27 years ago The Ocean Returned to Itself Tuesday 15th of December 1998 Murderer James Ronald Meanes is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Meanes' last words were "As the ocean always returns to itself, love always returns to itself. So does consciousness, always returns to itself. And I do so with love on my lips. May God bless all mankind." (-) 26 years ago  Wednesday 15th of December 1999 Murderer Sammie Felder is executed by lethal injection at the age of 54 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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40th year - N° 348 Sunday, 14 December 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 40th year - N° 348 Sunday, 14 December 2025

14 December / Today's 28 Events: (+) 522 years ago His Birth Was Foreseen Monday 14th of December 1503 Apothecary and seer Nostradamus, originally Michel de Nostredame is born in Rue Hoche, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France. (-) 226 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. (+) 160 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. (+) 146 years ago  Sunday 14th of December 1879 Murder plotter Arthur Covell is born in Geuda Springs, Kansas, United States. (+) 129 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. (-) 122 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. (x) 114 years ago  Thursday 14th of December 1911 39-year-old Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsenbecomes 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. (+) 112 years ago  Sunday 14th of December 1913 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Friedrich Abeling is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. (+) 102 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. (-) 98 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. (+) 90 years ago  Saturday 14th of December 1935 Actress Lee Ann Remick is born in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. (x) 86 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. (-) 82 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. (+) 79 years ago  Saturday 14th of December 1946 Actress and singer Jane Mallory Birkin is born in Marylebone, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (-) 73 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. (-) 66 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. (x) 57 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. (x) 49 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. (-) 48 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. (x) 48 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. (-) 36 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. (-) 26 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. (-) 22 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. (-) 20 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. (x) 14 years ago  Wednesday 14th of December 2011 143 die in home-brewed alcoholic beverage known as cheptipoisoning in Sangrampur, West Bengal, India. The Government of West Bengal arrested seven people for distributing the liquor. (-) 13 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. (x) 13 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. (-) 12 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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