Friday, November 15, 2013

55 Years Ago the Swordsman Never Saw His Opponent Go Down

616 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 November 1397
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208th Pope Nicholas V originally Tommaso Parentucelli, is born in Sarzana, Liguria, Italy.

146 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 November 1867
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Murderer Scott Holderman is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.

126 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 November 1887
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Artist Georgia Totto O’Keeffe is born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States.

126 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 November 1887
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Murderer Lee Mosier is executed by hanging in Wichita, Kansas, United States.

122 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 November 1891
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Nazi Leader Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel aka The Desert Fox, is born in Heidenheim, Germany.

121 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 November 1892
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Serial Killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in London, Newgate Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
On the scaffold he claimed to be Jack The Ripper.

106 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 November 1907
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Graff Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg is born in Jettingen, Germany.

87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 November 1926
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Blanche Myers is raped and strangled as ninth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 48 in Portland, Oregon, United States.

85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 November 1928
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Serial Killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

83 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 November 1930
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Writer James Graham Ballard is born in Shanghai International Settlement, China.

81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 November 1932
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Musician Petula Sally Olwen Clark is born in Ewell, Surrey, United Kingdom.

77 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 November 1936
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Dissident Wolf Karl Biermann is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

57 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 November 1956
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Brian Douglas Wells aka The Human Pizza Delivery Bomb, is born in Pennsylvania, United States.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 November 1958
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Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Madrid, Spain.
He died while dueling on the set of "Solomon and Sheba".

54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 November 1959
(x) Herbert Clutter, Bonnie, Nancy
and Kenyon are murdered by Mass-murderers Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith aka In Cold Blood in Holcomb, Kansas, United States.

44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 November 1969
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Sieglinde Hübner is mutilated and her throat cut by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 16 in Kaltenbrunn, Germany.

42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 November 1971
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Susie Heppeard is attacked in her own house by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 18 in Anchorage, Spenard, Alaska, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 November 1976
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Actor Jean Gabin originally Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 November 1978
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76 in New York, New York, United States.

35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 November 1978
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183 Die in DC-8 crash in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 November 1978
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Mass Murderer Nordine Amrani is born in Brussels, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.

34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 November 1979
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37-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to a non-existing address in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
The bomb explodes on board of American Airlines Flight 444 Boeing 727 en route to Washington, 12 people are injured.

34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 November 1979
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46-year-old Serial Killer Donald Gaskins aka Pee Wee, is arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor in Sumter, South Carolina, United States.
While being held, police started digging up bodies. He claimed to have killed dozens.

28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 November 1985
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Artist Meret Oppenheim dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Basel, Switzerland.

28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 November 1985
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Professor James McConnel is injured when opening a mail bomb from 43-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

25 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 November 1988
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Former policeman and 23-year-old Right Wing Spree Killer Barend Strydom aka Wit Wolf, kills seven blacks and wounds fifteen more in a shooting spree in Pretoria, South Africa.

18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 November 1995
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Murderer Robert Sidebottom is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 November 1996
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Actor Alger Hiss dies of emphysema at the age of 92 in New York, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 November 1998
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Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 57 in Conakry, Guinea.
He claimed that the FBI had introduced the cancer to his body as an attempt at assassination.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 November 2000
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Murderer Stacey Lamont Lawton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 November 2000
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Murderer Tony Neyshea Chambers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 November 2001
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Murderer Emerson Edward Rudd is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 November 2002
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Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 60 in West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom.
The infection came due to a suspected heart-attack two weeks earlier. She had also been suffering from angina and osteoporosis.

8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 November 2005
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Murderer Robert Dale Rowell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 November 2006
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Fashion model Ana Carolina Marcan Reston dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 21 in Hospital Municipal dos Servidores Publicos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 November 2010
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Talent Show star Wang Bei dies during plastic surgery to grind her jaw back at the age of 24 in Zhong'ao Cosmetic Surgery Hospital, Hubei, China.
The doctor sliced a blood vessel and couldn't stop the bleeding.

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