(+) Poet and artist William Blake is born in London, England.
193 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1820
(+) Philosopher Friedrich Engels is born in Barmen, Prussia, Germany.
132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1881
(+) Writer Stefan Zweig is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1881
(-) Murderer John Aspinal Simpson is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
131 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1882
(-) Murderer Edward Wheatfill is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in York Castle, United Kingdom.
126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1887
(-) Murderer Enoch Wadley is executed by hanging in Gloucester, United Kingdom.
120 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1893
(-) Murderer Emanuel Hamar is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
118 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 November 1895
(x) Sportsman James Franklin Duryea wins the first automobile race, which took place between Chicago and Waukegan in Illinois, United States.
114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1899
(-) Murderer Charles Scott is executed by hanging in Reading Gaol, United Kingdom.
106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 November 1907
(+) Writer Alberto Pincherle Moravia aka Il Conformista, is born in Rome, Roma, Italy.
105 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 November 1908
(+) Philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss is born in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
102 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1911
(-) Murderer Herbert Cooper lies down on the railway track and is decapitated in High Gate, Crouch End, United Kingdom.
76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 November 1937
(-) Raymond Lesobre is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, in Saint Cloud, Villa Mon Playsir, France.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 November 1942
(x) 492 Die in Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 November 1942
(-) Murderess Toni Jo Henry originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.
She killed a man to steal his car and became the first woman executed in the Louisiana electric chair.
70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 November 1943
(+) Musician Randy Newman is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 November 1947
(-) General and WWII hero Philippe de Hautecloque Leclerc dies in an airplane crash at the age of 45 in Colomb-Béchar, Algeria.
63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1950
(-) Murderer James Henry Corbett is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 November 1958
(x) 18-year-old Murderer Lowell Lee Andrews shoots his father, mother and sister to become a ‘hired gun’, and inherit the family’s property in Wolcott, Kansas, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 November 1962
(-) Murderer James Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
(+) Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is born in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 November 1963
(+) Double murderer Jesus Ledesma Aguilar is born in Mexico.
42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 November 1971
(-) Prime minister Wasfi Tel is assassinated by Black September at the age of 51 in Jordania.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1972
(-) Murderer Roger Bontemps is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 November 1972
(-) Murderer Claude Buffet is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 39 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 November 1976
(x) 44-year-old Harry De La Roche Sr., 51-year-old Mary Jane, 15-year-old Ronald and 12-year-old Eric are shot dead by 18-year-old Mass-murderer Harry William Frederick De La Roche jr. in Montvale, 23 East Grand Avenue, New Jersey, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1977
(-) Lauren Wagner is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 18 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 November 1979
(x) 257 Die in Air New Zealand sightseeing Flight 901 McDonnel-Douglas DC-10-30 crash in Antarctica.
It collided with Mount Erebus volcano.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 November 1980
(x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Hear/See" at Mixage Festival in Breda, De Beyerd, Netherlands.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 November 1987
(x) 159 Die in South African Airways Flight 295 Boeing 747-244B Combi crash in the Indian Ocean.
19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1994
(-) Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is beaten to death with a bar from the weight room by fellow-inmate Christopher Scarver, while cleaning the toilets and showers in a maximum security jail at the age of 34 in Portage, Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium, Wisconsin, United States.
In the same event murderer Jesse Anderson was also beaten to death.
19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 November 1994
(-) Great Train Robber Buster Edwards commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 November 1997
(x) 72-year-old Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, resigns as prime minister of Britain in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 November 2001
(-) Murderer Xin Baojun is executed at the age of 44 in the N°1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing, China.
He became acquainted with a woman surnamed Zhang via a local marriage agent and later murdered her and stole 3.000 yuan worth of her property.
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