40th year - N° 337 Wednesday, 3 December 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 40th year - N° 337 Wednesday, 3 December 2025

3 December / Today's 30 Events: (+) 168 years ago  Thursday 3rd of December 1857 Writer Joseph Conrad, originally Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski is born in Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. (+) 142 years ago  Monday 3rd of December 1883 Composer Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Webern is born in Wien, Wien, Austria. (-) 137 years ago  Monday 3rd of December 1888 Optician Carl Zeiss dies of a stroke at the age of 72 in Jena, Thüringen, Germany. (-) 137 years ago The Best Thing for Him to Do Was to Die Monday 3rd of December 1888 Jack the Ripper suspect Montague John Druitt commits suicide by drowning at the age of 31 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. A note written by Druitt and addressed to his brother William was found in his room in Blackheath. It read "Since Friday I felt that I was going to be like mother, and the best thing for me was to die." (+) 136 years ago  Tuesday 3rd of December 1889 Film director and Jean Harlow’s husband Paul Bern, originally Paul Levy is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. (-) 131 years ago  Monday 3rd of December 1894 Writer Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 44 in Villa Vailima, Vailima, Tuamasaga, Samoa. (+) 114 years ago  Sunday 3rd of December 1911 Composer Nino Giovanni Rota is born in Milano, Lombardia, Italy. (-) 106 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of December 1919 Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir dies of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 78 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. (+) 98 years ago  Saturday 3rd of December 1927 Singer Andy Howard Andrew Williams aka The Moon River Singer is born in Wall Lake, Iowa, United States. (+) 95 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of December 1930 Film director Jean-Luc Godard aka the Father of the Nouvelle Vague film movement is born in 2 Rue Cognacq-Jay, VIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (x) 86 years ago  Sunday 3rd of December 1939 34-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess escapes for the second time in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Judd was recaptured a few days later. (+) 78 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of December 1947 Leading member of the 'Manson Family' Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel is born in Los Angeles, California, United States. (+) 77 years ago  Friday 3rd of December 1948 Musician and television personality Ozzy John Michael Osbourne is born in 14 Lodge Road, Aston, West Midlands, United Kingdom. (-) 69 years ago  Monday 3rd of December 1956 Constructivist and productivist artist Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. (+) 64 years ago  Sunday 3rd of December 1961 Serial killer Wayne Adam Ford aka The Breast Severer is born in Petaluma, California, United States. (+) 64 years ago  Sunday 3rd of December 1961 Murderer Bobby Glen Cook is born in Corsicana, Texas, United States. (-) 59 years ago  Saturday 3rd of December 1966 Cop killer Jesús García Romero aka Ríos Romero is executed by the garotte at the age of 23 in Prisión Provincial Carabanchel, Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain. (x) 58 years ago  Sunday 3rd of December 1967 54-year-old Louis Washkansky becomes the first man to have a human-to-human heart transplantation in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. Washkansky lived for 18 days. (x) 53 years ago  Sunday 3rd of December 1972 155 die in Spantax Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado Flight 275crash in Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain. (x) 51 years ago  Tuesday 3rd of December 1974 39-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker and his son Mike terrorize Helen Bogin, Ethel Fisher-Cohen, Thelma Suden and Anna Pearl-Frankston for several hours in Bogin's house in Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania, United States. (-) 48 years ago  Saturday 3rd of December 1977 Agnes Cooney is strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in Snipe Road, Caldercruix, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom. (x) 46 years ago  Monday 3rd of December 1979 11 die in The Who concert stampede in Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Twenty-three other fans were injured in the rush for seating at the opening of the sold-out concert. (-) 46 years ago  Monday 3rd of December 1979 Kenneth Ockendon is strangled by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Nilsen kept the body in his bed for several days. (-) 45 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of December 1980 Founder of the British Union of Fascists Oswald Ernald Mosley aka The British Führer dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in Orsay, Île-de-France, France. (x) 44 years ago  Thursday 3rd of December 1981 Ilse Blumenthaler is attacked and raped by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. Blumenthaler survived. (x) 41 years ago  Monday 3rd of December 1984 At least 3787 die in Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plantgas leak in Union Carbide India Limited, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. There are estimates of 8000 deaths within two weeks and up to 8000 or more have since died from gas-related diseases. (x) 39 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of December 1986 Sandra Lindsay 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. Lindsay was tortured and killed in February 1987. (x) 32 years ago  Friday 3rd of December 1993 First bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Hartberg, Steiermark, Austria. 51-year-old priest August Janisch gets injured. Also at the Viennese ORF-Centrum a bomb explodes, 40-year-old Silvana Meixner gets injured. (-) 30 years ago  Sunday 3rd of December 1995 Serial killer Gerard John Schaefer is stabbed to death by fellow inmate Vincent Rivera at the age of 49 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States. (-) 22 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of December 2003 Double murderer Richard Charles Duncan is executed by lethal injection at the age of 61 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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