40th year - N° 330 Wednesday, 26 November 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 40th year - N° 330 Wednesday, 26 November 2025

26 November / Today's 20 Events: (-) 142 years ago  Monday 26th of November 1883 Murderer Thomas Riley is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. (+) 126 years ago  Sunday 26th of November 1899 Kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann is born in Kamenz, Sachsen, Germany. (+) 116 years ago  Friday 26th of November 1909 Playwright Eugène Ionesco, originally Eugen Ionescu is born in Slatina, Wallachia, Romania. (-) 108 years ago  Monday 26th of November 1917 Louise-Joséphine Jaume, originally Barthélemey is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France. (+) 105 years ago  Friday 26th of November 1920 Daughter of Aleister Crowley aka The Great Beast Astarte Lulu Panthea Crowley is born in Abbey of Thelema, Cefalù, Sicilia, Italy. Astarte was born to Crowley and Augustine Louise Hélène Fraux. (x) 103 years ago He Saw Wonderful Things Sunday 26th of November 1922 48-year-old Archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter becomes the first man to enter into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in KV62, Valley of the Kings, Thebe, Egypt. Lord Carnarvon asked "Can you see anything?" Carter replied with the famous words "Yes, wonderful things!" (+) 101 years ago  Wednesday 26th of November 1924 Pop artist George Segal is born in New York City, New York, United States. (-) 100 years ago  Thursday 26th of November 1925 King of Siam Rama VI, originally Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramentharamaha Vajiravudh Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua aka Vajiravudh dies of blood poisoning at the age of 45 in Grand Palace, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand. (-) 99 years ago  Friday 26th of November 1926 Firearms designer John Moses Browning dies of heart failure at the age of 71 in Herstal, Liège, Belgium. Browning died while working at the bench on a self-loading pistol design. (+) 95 years ago  Wednesday 26th of November 1930 Mass murderer Carl Robert Brown is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (+) 93 years ago  Saturday 26th of November 1932 Serial killer John Wayne Glover aka The Granny Killer aka The Monster of Mosman is born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. (-) 92 years ago Sunny Jim Praised the Action Sunday 26th of November 1933 Kidnapper and murderer Thomas Harold Thurmond is lynched with his accomplice John Maurice Holmes by a raging mob of 5.000 to 15.000 men, women and children at the age of 27 in St. James Park, San Jose, California, United States. Thurmond and Holmes had kidnapped and killed Brooke Hart on 9 November but continued to send ransom notes to his family, owners of Harts Department Store. Governor James 'Sunny Jim' Rolphpraised the action, stating that California had sent a message to future kidnappers and promised to pardon anyone involved in the lynching. (+) 86 years ago  Sunday 26th of November 1939 Musician Tina Turner, originally Anna Mae Bullock is born in Poindexter Farm, Highway 180, Nutbush, Tennessee, United States. (x) 81 years ago  Sunday 26th of November 1944 44-year-old Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Luitpold Himmler orders the destruction of all crematoria in the concentration camps in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (-) 75 years ago  Sunday 26th of November 1950 Writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler dies of unknown causes at the age of 83 in Mutterhof, Schwaighofstraße 47, Tegernsee, Bayern, Germany. (x) 60 years ago Erklärte Er die Bilder Friday 26th of November 1965 44-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs 'Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt' in Galerie Schmela, Hunsrückenstraße 16–18, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. (-) 57 years ago He Made a Paperweight Tuesday 26th of November 1968 Jan Susan Whitney is abducted and strangled by foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer in 3123 Center Street, Salem, Oregon, United States. Whitney's body was kept hanging from the pulley in Brudos' garage for several days, during which he dressed, photographed and had sex with it. Brudos cut off one of her breasts and made a resin mold of it that he used as a paperweight. (-) 42 years ago  Saturday 26th of November 1983 Simone Newin is raped and strangled by serial killer Michael Wolpert aka Der Neu-Isenburger Frauenmörder in Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany. Three days later Wolpert was caught assaulting a 19-year-old girl. (x) 41 years ago  Monday 26th of November 1984 Seventh bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC on the telecommunication systems in Base Aérienne de Bierset, Bierset, Liège, Belgium. It was the sixth action in their 'Campagne Anti-Impérialiste d'Octobre'. (-) 7 years ago  Monday 26th of November 2018 Film director Bernardo Bertolucci dies of cancer at the age of 78 in Trastevere, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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