27 events for Friday 27 November 2015

• (+) 314 Years Ago Today Sunday 27th of November 1701 Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Anders Celsius is born in Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden.




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• (-) 265 Years Ago Today Friday 27th of November 1750 Traitor Thomas Reynolds is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, Tyburn, Greater London, United Kingdom.




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• (-) 194 Years Ago Today Tuesday 27th of November 1821 Robber Andrew Ferris is executed by hanging in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.




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• 172 Years Ago Today Monday 27th of November 1843 Victim of Jack the Ripper Elizabeth Stride, originally Elizabeth Gustafsdotter aka Long Liz is born in Torslanda, Västra Götalands Län, Sweden.




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• (-) 138 Years Ago Today Tuesday 27th of November 1877 Murderer James Satchell is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 138 Years Ago Today Tuesday 27th of November 1877 Murderer John Swift is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.




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• (-) 138 Years Ago Today Tuesday 27th of November 1877 Murderer John Upton is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.




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• (-) 121 Years Ago Today Tuesday 27th of November 1894 Murderer James Wilshaw Whitehead is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 118 Years Ago Today Saturday 27th of November 1897 Mobster and crime boss Vito Genovese aka Don Vito is born in Napoli, Campania, Italy.




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• (-) 114 Years Ago Today Wednesday 27th of November 1901 Wagon and carriage manufacturer Clement Studebaker dies of natural causes at the age of 70 in South Bend, Indiana, United States.




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• (-) 109 Years Ago Today Tuesday 27th of November 1906 Murderer Edward Hartigan is executed by hanging at the age of 58 in Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Hartigan battered his 45-year-old wife Catherine to death in August 1906.




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• (x) 86 Years Ago Today Wednesday 27th of November 1929 An unidentified man is strangled and left in a burning car by 26-year-old Murderer Kurt Erich Tetzner aka Der Mann der Zweimal Starb in Etterzhausen, Bayern, Germany.




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• (+) 83 Years Ago Today Sunday 27th of November 1932 Leadership of the opposition Benigno Simeon Aquino aka Ninoy is born in Concepcion, Tarlac, Philippines.




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• (-) 81 Years Ago Today They Sliced Through the Baby's Liver Tuesday 27th of November 1934 Gangster Baby Face John Nelson, originally Lester Joseph Gillis dies of gun wounds after being shot by FBI agents at the age of 26 in Walnut Street, Wilmette, Illinois, United States. Nelson had been shot a total of nine times, including a fatal machine gun slug in his abdomen slicing through his liver and pancreas. Federal Agents Herman 'Ed' Hollis and Samuel P. Cowley were shot dead by Nelson in the gun battle.




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• (+) 75 Years Ago Today Wednesday 27th of November 1940 Martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, originally Lǐ Zhènfān is born in Chinese Hospital, 845 Jackson Street, San Francisco, Chinatown, California, United States.




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• (+) 73 Years Ago Today Friday 27th of November 1942 Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jimi James Marshall Hendrix, originally Johnny Allen Hendrix is born in Seattle, Washington, United States.




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• (-) 60 Years Ago Today Pacific 231 Blew its Last Whistle Sunday 27th of November 1955 Composer Arthur Oscar Honegger dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.




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• (x) 53 Years Ago Today Tuesday 27th of November 1962 97 die in Varig Boeing 707-441 Flight 810 crash into a mountain in La Cruz Peak, Lima, Lima Metropolitana, Peru.




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• (x) 48 Years Ago Today Monday 27th of November 1967 Start of the trial against 21-year-old Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder in Landgericht Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.




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• (x) 45 Years Ago Today Friday 27th of November 1970 73-year-old 262nd Pope Paulus VI, originally Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini aka The Pilgrim Pope is attacked with a knife by surrealist painter Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores, dressed as a priest in Manila International Airport, Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines. Paulus VI was only lightly stabbed.




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• (-) 40 Years Ago Today Thursday 27th of November 1975 Vitali Hakim is burned to death by serial killer Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood in Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand.




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• (-) 37 Years Ago Today Monday 27th of November 1978 49-year-old George Richard Moscone is shot dead by San Francisco supervisor and assassin Dan White in City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California, United States. White claimed to be ‘high on junk food’.




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• (-) 37 Years Ago Today Monday 27th of November 1978 48-year-old Harvey Bernard Milk is shot dead by San Francisco supervisor and assassin Dan White in City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California, United States.




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• (x) 35 Years Ago Today Thursday 27th of November 1980 51-year-old Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford goes on a five-block-Thanksgiving-Day-rampage in her 1974 Lincoln, killing six people and injuring 23 in North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, United States. Arrested at the scene, Ford later tells a jailer she "did what she had to do" and that the people she hit were "just pigs, animals let out in a wild place. She also told a doctor that the voice of Joan Kennedy, then the wife of Senator Edward Kennedy, ordered her to kill. "Just run through a whole bunch of people and kill everybody" the voice said.




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• (x) 32 Years Ago Today Sunday 27th of November 1983 181 die in Avianca Airlines Boeing 747-283B Flight 011 crash in Mejorada Del Campo, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain. There were 11 survivors. Among the victims were Peruvian writer Manuel Scorza, Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama, Argentinian writer Marta Traba and Mexican writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia.




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• (x) 26 Years Ago Today Monday 27th of November 1989 110 die in Avianca Airlines Boeing 727-21 Flight 203 bomb explosion in Soacha, Región Andina, Colombia. After 5 minutes into the flight a bomb placed near the fuel tank exploded at 13,000 feet. Pablo Escobar of the Medellín drug cartel planned the bombing, hoping it would kill presidential candidate for the 1990 elections César Gaviria Trujillo. Gaviria was not on the plane and would go on to become President of Colombia.




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• (-) 4 Years Ago Today Sunday 27th of November 2011 Film director Ken Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

32 events for Friday 20 November 2015

• (+) 263 Years Ago Today Monday 20th of November 1752 Poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry Thomas Chatterton is born in Bristol, Redcliffe, South West England, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 254 Years Ago Today Friday 20th of November 1761 253rd Pope Pius VIII, originally Francesco Saverio Castiglioni is born in Cingoli, Marche, Italy.




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• (-) 138 Years Ago Today Tuesday 20th of November 1877 Double murderer Henry March is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Norwich Castle, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 126 Years Ago Today Wednesday 20th of November 1889 Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Powell Hubble is born in Marshfield, Missouri, United States.




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• (-) 121 Years Ago Today Tuesday 20th of November 1894 13-year-old Louise Marcel is murdered by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est in Vidauban, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.




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• (+) 113 Years Ago Today Thursday 20th of November 1902 SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt is born in Bad Kissingen, Bayern, Germany.




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• (-) 112 Years Ago Today He Was Hanged by Water Power Friday 20th of November 1903 Old West scout and hired gunman Tom Thomas Horn is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. Horn was one of the few people to have been hanged by a water-powered gallows known as the 'Julian Gallows', designed by Cheyenne architect James P. Julian. On the scaffold Horn shouted: “Ain’t losing your nerve are you, Joe?”.




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• (-) 105 Years Ago Today Sunday 20th of November 1910 Writer Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in Lva Tolstogo, Astapovo, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia.




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• (+) 91 Years Ago Today Thursday 20th of November 1924 Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 90 Years Ago Today Friday 20th of November 1925 Politician Robert Francis 'Bobby' Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.




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• (+) 84 Years Ago Today Friday 20th of November 1931 Founder of The Process Church of The Final Judgment Mary Ann DeGrimston, originally Mary Ann MacLean is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.




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• (x) 81 Years Ago Today Tuesday 20th of November 1934 42-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker is sentenced to death in Wien, Wien, Austria.




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• (-) 79 Years Ago Today Friday 20th of November 1936 Founder of the Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera is executed by the firing squad at the age of 33 in Alicante, Alicante, Spain.




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• (+) 79 Years Ago Today Friday 20th of November 1936 Arte Povera artist Luciano Fabro is born in Torino, Piedmontese, Italy.




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• (+) 64 Years Ago Today Tuesday 20th of November 1951 Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman Jeffrey Alan Konen is born in Houston, Texas, United States.




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• (+) 59 Years Ago Today Tuesday 20th of November 1956 Model and actress Bo Derek, originally Mary Cathleen Collins is born in Long Beach, California, United States.




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• (+) 59 Years Ago Today Tuesday 20th of November 1956 Spree killer David Malcolm Gray known for The Aramoana Massacre is born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.




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• (x) 56 Years Ago Today Friday 20th of November 1959 30-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for abduction in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.




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• (x) 55 Years Ago Today Sunday 20th of November 1960 37-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer stabs his 37-year-old wife Adele with a penknife in the abdomen and back at a party in their apartment in 250 West 94th Street, New York, New York, United States. Adele's pericardium was punctured and necessitated emergency surgery. She would not press charges and Mailer later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault and was given a suspended sentence.




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• (x) 51 Years Ago Today Friday 20th of November 1964 37-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is arrested on charges of burglary in Seattle, Washington, United States.




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• (-) 40 Years Ago Today Thursday 20th of November 1975 Caudillo de España y de la Cruzada Francisco Bahamonde Franco dies of Parkinson's disease at the age of 83 in Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.




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• (-) 37 Years Ago Today Monday 20th of November 1978 Surrealist artist Giorgio de Chirico dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.




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• (x) 25 Years Ago Today Tuesday 20th of November 1990 54-year-old Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is arrested in Gvardeyskaya ul., Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russia.




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• (x) 22 Years Ago Today Saturday 20th of November 1993 116 die in Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak 42D Flight 110 crash in Ohrid Airport, Ohrid, Southwestern, Macedonia. 23-year-old Rade Jevremovic survived but was badly injured and died without ever regaining consciousness on 1 December 1993.




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• (x) 18 Years Ago Today Thursday 20th of November 1997 Interior minister Jack Straw decides to uphold the ruling made by his predecessor Michael Howard that 55-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) would serve her life sentence or tariff in full and die in jail, in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Hindley had requested a judicial review of her sentence.




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• (-) 17 Years Ago Today He Felt Like a Very Lucky Man Friday 20th of November 1998 Double murderer John Thomas Noland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.




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• (-) 13 Years Ago Today Wednesday 20th of November 2002 Triple murderer William Wesley Chappell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 66 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Chappell was the oldest inmate Texas has put to death.




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• (-) 12 Years Ago Today He Went There Thursday 20th of November 2003 Double murderer Robert Lloyd Henry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Henry's last words were "Here I Go".




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• 12 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it Thursday 20th of November 2003 This is the bed where conceptual artist Martin Maloney died, impoverished, ill-infected and alone in his studio in Jacob Jordaenskaai, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.




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• (-) 9 Years Ago Today Monday 20th of November 2006 Film director Robert Bernard Altman dies of leukemia at the age of 81 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States.




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• 7 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it Thursday 20th of November 2008 Surveillance cameras on the corner of the building where Rote Armee Fraktion member Elisabeth Von Dyck was shot in the back and killed by a police sniper on 4 May 1979 in Haus Stephanstraße 40, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.




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• (-) 2 Years Ago Today Wednesday 20th of November 2013 White-supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, originally James Clayton Vaughn aka The Racist Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 63 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States. Franklin's execution was the first lethal injection in Missouri to use only Pentobarbital instead of the conventional three drug cocktail.