40th year - N° 329 Tuesday, 25 November 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 40th year - N° 329 Tuesday, 25 November 2025

25 November / Today's 27 Events: (-) 206 years ago  Thursday 25th of November 1819 Robber John Henley is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (-) 203 years ago  Monday 25th of November 1822 Sodomite William King is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. King was charged with an 'unnatural offence'. (-) 203 years ago  Monday 25th of November 1822 Sodomite John Holland is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Holland was charged with an 'unnatural offence'. (+) 181 years ago  Monday 25th of November 1844 Automobile designer and manufacturer Carl Benz, originally Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant is born in Rheinstraße 22 Quartier, Mühlburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (+) 144 years ago He Was Blessed Friday 25th of November 1881 Giovanni XXIII, originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli aka Il Papa Buono is born in Sotto il Monte, Lombardia, Italy. (+) 130 years ago  Monday 25th of November 1895 8th President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Ludvík Svobodais born in Hroznatín, Moravia, Czechoslovakia. (+) 125 years ago  Sunday 25th of November 1900 SS-Obersturmbannführer and longest serving commandant of Auschwitz-KZ Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss is born in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (+) 124 years ago  Monday 25th of November 1901 Lagerkommandant in KZ Auschwitz and Majdanek Arthur Liebehenschel is born in Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland. (+) 119 years ago  Sunday 25th of November 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Fritz Wittig is born in Kassel, Hessen, Germany. (+) 111 years ago  Wednesday 25th of November 1914 Baseball player Joe Joseph Paul DiMaggio, originally Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio aka Joltin' Joe aka The Yankee Clipper is born in Martinez, California, United States. (+) 110 years ago  Thursday 25th of November 1915 Dictatorial president Augusto Pinochet, originally Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte is born in Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile. (x) 89 years ago  Wednesday 25th of November 1936 Start of the trial against 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. (-) 87 years ago  Friday 25th of November 1938 Cop killer George Washington Pingley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond, Virginia, United States. (+) 79 years ago  Monday 25th of November 1946 Serial killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Torso Killer is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States. (-) 61 years ago  Wednesday 25th of November 1964 Margaret Mary Flemming McGowan aka Frances Brown aka Ann Sutherland aka Susan Edwards aka Frances Quinn is found naked and choked to death by unidentified serial killer Jack the Stripper in Hornton Street, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (-) 58 years ago  Saturday 25th of November 1967 Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, originally Yossel Aronovich Tsadkindies after undergoing abdominal surgery at the age of 79 in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 55 years ago  Wednesday 25th of November 1970 Poet, writer and actor Yukio Mishima, originally Kimitake Hiraoka commits suicide by Seppuku at the age of 45 in Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces Headquarters, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. The act was to end in Mishima's ritual decapitation by Tatenokaimember Masakatsu Morita. Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform the decapitation properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. After Mishima was decapitated, Morita also attempted to commit Seppuku and was beheaded by Koga. (-) 52 years ago  Sunday 25th of November 1973 Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is stabbed through the heart in the prison infirmary by Robert Wilson at the age of 42 in Walpole State Prison, Walpole, Massachusetts, United States. (-) 50 years ago  Tuesday 25th of November 1975 Julia Goncalves is shot dead and violated by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Parc Hébert, Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France. (+) 44 years ago  Wednesday 25th of November 1981 Victim of Marc Dutroux Laetitia Delhez is born in Bertrix, Luxembourg, Belgium. (x) 39 years ago They Had Sex on His Water Bed Tuesday 25th of November 1986 Josefina Rivera is abducted and held imprisoned by serial killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. "I was hustling on the corner of 3rd and Girard at about 11 pm. A 1987 Caddy Coupe de Ville pulled up. The driver of the car and I discussed price. We came to an agreement of $20. He drove me to 3520 North Marshall Street and we went into the house. He identified himself to me as Gary Heidnik. We went up to the second-floor front bedroom and he gave me a $20 bill. Then we took off our clothes and we had sex on his water bed." Rivera was held captive in a pit in the basement of Heidnik's house along other women he abducted until 24 March 1987 when she managed to escape. (x) 38 years ago He Had Hair like Carl Lewis Wednesday 25th of November 1987 Berthe Finalteri is attacked and tortured by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in Rue d’Alsace, Xe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Finalteri unexpectedly recovered and was able to give an accurate description of her attacker, "a mix-race man in his twenties, with hair like Carl Lewis and an earring in his left ear". (-) 38 years ago  Wednesday 25th of November 1987 Rachel Cohen is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 46 Rue du Château d’eau, Xe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 36 years ago  Saturday 25th of November 1989 Elizabeth Liz Gibson is abducted and strangled by serial killerArthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York, United States. (x) 32 years ago  Thursday 25th of November 1993 10-year-old Robert Thompson and 10-year-old Jon Venables are sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for killing 3-year-old Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulger in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (-) 9 years ago  Friday 25th of November 2016 Photographer and film director David Hamilton commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 83 in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Hamilton was facing allegations of rape by his former model Flavie Flament. (-) 9 years ago  Friday 25th of November 2016 15th President of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro dies of unknown causes at the age of 90 in Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.

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