41st year - Nr 318 Saturday, 14 November 2026

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41st year - Nr 318 Saturday, 14 November 2026

14 November / Today's 35 Events:

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(-) 310 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1716 Philosopher and polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, originally Godefroi Guillaume Leibnitz dies of unknown causes at the age of 70 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 195 years ago Monday 14th of November 1831 Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel dies of cholera at the age of 61 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 186 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1840 Impressionist painter Claude Oscar Monet is born in 45 Rue Laffitte, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 163 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1863 Chemist Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland aka The Father of the Plastics Industry known for inventing Bakelite is born in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 162 years ago Monday 14th of November 1864 Murderer Franz Müller known for committing the first murder on a British train is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The public hanging of Müller took place amid scenes of drunkenness and disorderly conduct by 50.000 spectators.

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(-) 149 years ago Wednesday 14th of November 1877 Clement Swanenburg is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 126 years ago Wednesday 14th of November 1900 Composer Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 119 years ago Thursday 14th of November 1907 Writer Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren known for her children’s books featuring Pippi Longstocking is born in Fabriksgatan, Vimmerby, Småland, Sweden.

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(+) 118 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1908 Serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman, originally Sven Emil Sigvard Nilsson aka The Doctor is born in Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden. Apart from Thurneman, the Sala gang consisted of Bror Hedström, Åke Rangvald Lindberg, Roland Abrahamsson and Karl Herbert Jansson.

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(+) 118 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1908 Anti-Communist and anti-homosexual witch-hunter Joseph Raymond McCarthy is born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 113 years ago Friday 14th of November 1913 Murderer Oswald Hansel is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 97 years ago Thursday 14th of November 1929 Feral girl Kamala known for being raised by a wolf family dies of a kidney infection at the age of 17 in Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

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(-) 96 years ago Friday 14th of November 1930 Sven Eriksson is shot in the back of the neck by serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor in Sörbobäcken, Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden.

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(-) 80 years ago Thursday 14th of November 1946 Composer Manuel de Falla, originally Manuel María de los Dolores Falla y Matheu dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 70 in Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina.

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(+) 78 years ago Sunday 14th of November 1948 Prince of Wales Philip Arthur George Charles is born in Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 73 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1953 Victim of Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker Patty Elaine Higgins is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 69 years ago Thursday 14th of November 1957 19-year-old Serial killer Ian Brady, originally Ian Duncan Stewart aka The Moors Murderers (with Myra Hindley) is released from the borstal after serving two years for theft in Hull Prison, Kingston upon Hull, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 66 years ago Monday 14th of November 1960 118 die in passenger steam train 608 and diesel railcar 653 collision in Stéblová, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(-) 62 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1964 Benjamin Hornberg is stabbed to death by serial killer Vaughn Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 60 years ago Monday 14th of November 1966 15-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen escapes from the Rosendael reformatory and assaults and rapes an unidentified woman in Rijmenam, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

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(x) 58 years ago Thursday 14th of November 1968 62-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America’s Most Bizarre Murderer is found guilty of First Degree Murder in Wautoma, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 51 years ago Friday 14th of November 1975 42-year-old Serial killer Donald Henry Gaskins, originally Donald Henry Parrott aka Pee Wee Gaskins aka the Meanest Man in America is arrested when criminal associate Walter Neeley confessed to police that he had witnessed Gaskins killing 28-year-old Dennis Bellamy and 15-year-old Johnny Knight in Sumter, South Carolina, United States. On 4 December Gaskins led police to land he owned in Prospect where police discovered the bodies of eight of his victims.

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(x) 46 years ago Friday 14th of November 1980 21-year-old Hijacker Michel Strée aka Chevalier de Wallonie and his brothers Mark and Frank-Roger hi-jack a schoolbus and demand a national TV-broadcast and a discussion with the King about common injustice in RTBf, Boulevard Auguste Reyers, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. In the TV-studio they are raided by a special police task-force.

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(x) 45 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1981 22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs with Etat Brut in V2, Vughterstraat 234, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

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(-) 39 years ago Saturday 14th of November 1987 War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Loosdrecht, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 36 years ago He Wanted to be Fucking Killed Wednesday 14th of November 1990 Spree killer David Malcolm Gray known for The Aramoana Massacre is shot dead by the Anti-Terrorist Squad after shooting 13 people to death in a 22-hour shooting spree at the age of 34 in Aramoana, Otago, New Zealand. The massacre began on 13 November at 7:30 p.m. when Gray confronted neighbour Garry Holden about one of Holden's dogs wandering onto his property. At around 5:50 p.m. on 14 November Gray ran out of the house, shooting from the hip and shouting "Kill me! Fucking kill me, you bastards!" He took several steps before being struck and knocked down by ATS gunfire. Gray was hit five times: in the eye, neck, chest and twice in the groin. Even with these injuries he struggled fiercely against police, breaking free of plastic handcuffs before being re-handcuffed, while berating police for not having killed him. Gray died from his wounds on the way to the hospital.

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(x) 29 years ago Friday 14th of November 1997 33-year-old Serial killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist is sentenced to death for the rape-murders of 6 women in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Geralds dumped the bodies in the trash near his house.

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(x) 29 years ago Friday 14th of November 1997 35-year-old Serial killer Daniel Joseph Blank aka The Parish River Killer is arrested in Onalaska, Texas, United States. Blank confessed to the murders of 41-year-old Victor Rossi, 58-year-old Barbara Bourgeois, 71-year-old Lillian Philippe, 76-year-old Sam Arcuri and his 69-year-old wife Louella and 55-year-old Joan Brock.

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(-) 26 years ago Tuesday 14th of November 2000 Murderer Stacey Lamont Lawton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 21 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago Wednesday 14th of November 2001 Murderer Jeffery Eugene Tucker is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 14th of November 2003 The tower of the Belgian National Broadcast Company where I was a guest in a talkshow with Jan Fabre and Jan Hoet in VRT, Reyerslaan, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 23 years ago Friday 14th of November 2003 Murderer John Dennis Daniels is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Daniels' last meal request was for ribeye steak, baked potato with sour cream and butter, pecan pie, soda, roll and hush puppies.

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(-) 22 years ago Sunday 14th of November 2004 Composer Michel Colombier aka Fusion-sama dies of cancer at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 14th of November 2005 The advantage of not speaking Chinese and yet wandering as an unwary nobody into the forbidden wing of the museum in Museum of Natural History, 126 Tian Qiao Nan Street, Dongcheng, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(-) 20 years ago She Died on Apples and Tomatoes Tuesday 14th of November 2006 Fashion model Ana Carolina Macan Reston dies of an infection caused by eating disorder at the age of 21 in Hospital Municipal dos Servidores Publicos, São Paulo, Região Sudeste, Brazil. At the time of her death Reston weighed just 40kg at a height of 1,68m and had been hospitalized since 25 October for kidney malfunction due to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, which included a diet consisting only of apples and tomatoes.

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