(+) King of England Henry VI is born in Windsor, United Kingdom.
383 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 December 1630
(x) 53-year-old Artist Peter Paul Rubens marries 16-year-old Helène Fourment in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
355 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 December 1658
(-) Moralist, philosopher and Jesuit Baltasar Gracian y Morales dies at the age of 57 in Taragona, Spain.
208 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 December 1805
(-) Artist and inventor of the pencil Nicolas-Jacques Conté dies at the age of 50 in France.
188 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 December 1825
(+) Multiple murderer Dr. Edward William Pritchard is born in Southsea, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
106 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 December 1907
(x) 362 Die in coal-mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, United States.
(+) Gangster George Nelson originally Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face, is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 December 1912
(-) Murderer Louis Willie is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, United States.
96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 December 1917
(x) Over 2000 Die in SS Mont Blanc explosion in Halifax, Canada.
Many die in the subsequent fire that rages through the city.
93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 December 1920
(+) Musician Dave David Warren Brubeck is born in Concord, California, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 December 1923
(-) Adolf Hennies is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 19 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 December 1928
(-) Wife-murderer Chung Yi Miao is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Manchester, Strangeways Gaol, United Kingdom.
75 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 December 1938
(-) Mass Murderess Martha Lowenstein Marek is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 34 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 December 1941
(+) Artist Bruce Nauman is born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 December 1941
(+) Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, is born in Kirkwood, Illinois, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 December 1942
(+) Writer Peter Handke is born in Griffen, Carinthia, Austria.
70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 December 1943
(-) Madge Knight dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 52 in Chichester, Sussex, United Kingdom.
52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 December 1961
(-) Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon dies of leukaemia at the age of 36 in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 December 1964
(x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, is committed to the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Atascadero, California, United States.
He shot dead his grandparents “to see how it would feel”.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 December 1965
(x) Over 125 Die in 2 buses crash in Sotouboua, Togo.
They drove into a crowd of dancers.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 December 1969
(-) Rock fan Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hell’s Angels during a Rolling Stones concert at the age of 18 in Altamont, California, United States.
During a scuffle he had pulled a gun.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 December 1969
(x) Several police cars are bombed by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen as a protest for the fatal shooting of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark two days before in Chicago, 3600 North Halsted Street, Illinois, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 December 1973
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is stabbed 32 times in his cell for bumping into a fellow inmate in Vaccaville Medical Facility, California, United States.
His left eye was removed in surgery.
33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 December 1980
(-) An unidentified woman is raped, beaten and strangled by David Mason at the age of 75 in California, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 December 1985
(-) Serial Killer Carroll Edward Cole aka Silent Rage, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Carson City, Nevada, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 December 1985
(x) Twenty-seventh bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes on a Nato-pipeline in Wortegem-Petegem, West Flanders, Belgium.
25 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 December 1988
(-) Musician Roy Kelton Orbison dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 December 1989
(-) Mass Murderer Marc ‘Gamil Gharbi’ Lepine aka The Women-Hating Rambo, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 25 in Montreal, Engineering University Campus, Quebec, Canada.
He first killed 14 women and injured another 12 in a shooting rampage.
20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 December 1993
(x) Fourth bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
Four bomb-letters arrive at various locations, three are detected before they explode, one women gets injured.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 December 1994
(-) Murderer Herman Clark is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 December 1995
(-) Murderer Robert O’Neal is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Montana, United States.
He was the first white man executed for the murder of a black man.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 December 1995
(-) Murderer Bernard Amos is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 December 1995
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux is imprisoned for car theft in Belgium.
While he is in prison 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo starve to death in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 December 2000
(-) Multiple murderer Daniel Joe Hittle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 December 2002
(-) Murderer Ernest West Basden is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 December 2007
(x) 105 Die in coal mine explosion in Linfen, Shanxi, China.
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