Friday, November 22, 2013

50 Years Ago the Motorcade Sped On

186 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1827
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Coiner Edward Lowe is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

186 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1827
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Highwayman Charles Smith is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

186 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1827
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Robber John Keats is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

186 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1827
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Robber John Powell is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.

160 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1853
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German ambassador in China Klemens August Freiherr von Ketteler is born in Potsdam, Germany.

144 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 November 1869
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Writer André Gide is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

133 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 November 1880
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Murderer Joseph Distin is executed by hanging in Horfield Gaol, United Kingdom.

130 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 1883
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Catharina Aben is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, at the age of 5 in Leiden, Netherlands.

123 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1890
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President of France Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle is born in Lille, France.

115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1898
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Airplane pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post is born in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States.

111 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1902
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Artillery-engineer Friedrich Alfred Krupp commits suicide by a newspaper reporting about a homosexual escapade on Capri at the age of 48 in Essen, Villa Hügel, Germany.

111 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1902
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General and WWII hero Philippe de Hautecloque Leclerc is born in Belloy-Saint-Léonard, France.

103 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1910
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Wife-Murderer Henry Thompson is executed by hanging in Liverpool, Walton Gaol, United Kingdom.

100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1913
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Composer Benjamin Britten is born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

97 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 November 1916
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Writer Jack London dies of uremia and morphine-poisoning at the age of 40 in Glen Ellen, California, United States.

88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 November 1925
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Pilot Geraldine “Jerrie” Fredritz Mock is born in Newark, Ohio, United States.

81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1932
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Actor Robert Vaughn is born in New York, New York, United States.

76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 November 1937
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Fritz Frommer is murdered by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 25 in Paris, La Celle Saint-Cloud, Villa la Voulzie, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 November 1950
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Murderer Norman Goldthorpe is executed by hanging in Yarmouth, United Kingdom.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1958
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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1958
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Murderer Richard L. Jordan is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 November 1963
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35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald at the age of 46 in Dallas, Dealey Plaza, Texas, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 November 1963
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Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley dies of an LSD-overdose, trying to ease his pain due to cancer at the age of 69 in Hollywood, California, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 November 1974
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37-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his son Mike raid several houses and rape a woman in Lindenwold, New Jersey, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1980
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Actress Mae Mary Jane West dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 November 1993
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Writer Anthony Burgess dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in London, St. John’s Wood, London City of, United Kingdom.

19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 November 1994
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Murderer Warren Bridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 November 1995
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Serial Killer, wife of Frederick West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, Rosemary West is convicted to life imprisonment in Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
She was accused of helping her husband in 10 murders.

16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 November 1997
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INXS lead-singer Michael Hutchence commits suicide by hanging at the age of 37 in Sydney, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New South Wales, Australia.
His death was an auto-erotic fatality.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 November 2007
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Choreographer Maurice Béjart dies at the age of 80 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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