213 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1800
(+) Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is born in Francheville, Rhône, France.
137 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 December 1876
(-) Murderess Hannah Ocuish aka Omish, is executed by hanging at the age of 12 in New London, Connecticut, United States.
She is the youngest person ever hanged in the USA.
112 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1901
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Bock is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
102 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 December 1911
(-) Murderer Wade Hood is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in South Carolina, United States.
93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1920
(-) Eventual Serial Killer Joseph Mumfry is shot dead by Mrs Mike Pepitone in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He was recognised as being the Axe Man of New Orleans by Mrs Pepitone, wife of one of his victims.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1924
(-) Serial Killer Carl Denke commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 54 in Münsterberg, Silesia, Germany.
He was arrested after attacking Vincenz Oliver with a hackblade during dinner. When police searched his house, they found drums with salted meat and written notes about 20 years of murder and cannibalism.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1924
(x) 35-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving 9 months for his attempt at a coup d’état a year earlier in Berlin, Landsberg Prison, Berlin, Germany.
While in prison, he wrote "Mein Kampf".
86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 December 1927
(x) 33-year-old Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess marries 27-year-old Ilse Pröhl in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1941
(x) Belgium declares war to Italy.
67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1946
(+) Psychic Uri György Geller is born in Tel Aviv, Israël.
65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1948
(+) Musician Alan Parsons is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1958
(-) Mary Hattam is assaulted and battered to death by Rupert Stuart aka The Murderous Aboriginal, at the age of 9 in Ceduna, Australia.
53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 December 1960
(x) 49-year-old Last Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer is arrested in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1963
(x) Start of the trial against 21 guards and doctors of Auschwitz-KZ in Frankfurt, Germany.
45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1968
(-) Writer John Ernst Steinbeck dies of heart disease and congestive heart failure at the age of 66 in New York, New York, United States.
45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1968
(-) David Faraday and 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen are shot dead as second and third victim by Zodiac at the age of 17 in Vallejo, California, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1969
(x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a ‘Happy Christmas’ postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and adds a scrap of eight victim Paul Stine’s bloody shirt in California, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 December 1973
(-) Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco is killed in an ETA bomb-attack in Spain.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 December 1973
(-) Musician Bobby Darin originally Walden Robert Cassotto, dies minutes after initially succesful heart surgery to repair two artificial heart valves at the age of 37 in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1974
(-) Composer André Jolivet dies at the age of 69 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 1975
(-) Susan Bickrest is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Port Orange, Spruce Creek, Florida, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1976
(x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Honka is convicted to 15 years imprisonment and sent to a mental asylum for life in Hamburg, Germany.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 December 1979
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Perfectone" in Gent, Zaal Cercle, East Flanders, Belgium.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 December 1981
(-) Beatrix Scheble is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 16 in Frankfurt City Park, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1982
(-) Composer Arthur Rubinstein dies at the age of 95 in Genève, Switzerland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1982
(-) Steven Agan is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 23 in Newport, Indiana, United States.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 December 1983
(-) Hedda Buekow is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1985
(-) Estelle Donjoux is tortured and killed as ninth by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 91 in Paris 14th, 14 rue Lacaze, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 December 1987
(x) Over 2500 Die in Dona Paz Ferry shipwreck in Tablas Strait, Philippines.
20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 December 1993
(x) Serial Killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, is sentenced to 5 terms of life-imprisonment in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 December 1995
(x) 160 Die in American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757-223 crash into a mountain in Buga, Colombia.
Four people survived.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 December 1996
(-) Futurologist Carl Edward Sagan dies of pneumonia at the age of 62 in Seattle, Washington, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 December 2003
(x) 44-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Trop = Teveel" in Antwerpen, outside M_hka, Antwerpen, Belgium.
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