29th year - N° 338 Thursday, 4 December 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 338 Thursday, 4 December 2014

4 December / Today's 14 Events:

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(-) 143 years ago Monday 4th of December 1871 Pieternella Swanenburg is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 139 years ago Saturday 4th of December 1875 Poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, originally René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke is born in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(x) 100 years ago Friday 4th of December 1914 45-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais rents a villa in The Lodge, 47 Rue de Mantes, Vernouillet, Île-de-France, France. Landru killed 39-year-old Jeanne-Marie Cuchet, her 17-year-old son André and two more victims in The Lodge. Their bodies were burned in his furnace.

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(x) 90 years ago Thursday 4th of December 1924 Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Schwürgericht, Volgersweg 65, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 57 years ago Wednesday 4th of December 1957 90 die in electric and steam train collision in Lewisham by-pass, Lewisham, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 45 years ago Thursday 4th of December 1969 Black Panther Mark Clark is shot dead in a police raid at the age of 22 in 2337 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Clark, sitting in the front room of the apartment with a shotgun in his lap, was on security duty. The first shot hit Clark in the heart. He died instantly and his gun went off as he fell. His gun fired a single round which was later determined to be caused by a reflexive death convulsion after the raiding team shot him; this was the only shot the Panthers fired.

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(-) 45 years ago Thursday 4th of December 1969 Deputy chairman of the Black Panthers Fred Hampton is shot dead in a police raid at the age of 21 in 2337 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States. FBI-informant William O'Neal had slipped the powerful barbiturate sleep agent Secobarbitol into a drink that Hampton consumed during the dinner in order to sedate Hampton so he would not awaken during the subsequent raid. Hampton fell asleep in mid-sentence talking to his mother on the telephone. Hampton was lying on a mattress in the bedroom with his pregnant fiancée who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their child. Two officers found him wounded in the shoulder and fellow Black Panther Harold Bell reported that he heard the following exchange: "That's Fred Hampton. Is he dead?... Bring him out. He's barely alive. He'll make it." Two shots were heard, which it was later discovered were fired point blank in Hampton's head. According to Deborah Johnson one officer then said: "He's good and dead now."

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(x) 43 years ago Saturday 4th of December 1971 100 die in Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-2H6 Flight 653 crash in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia. The plane was presumably hijacked by a member of the Japanese Red Army who shot both pilots.

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(-) 43 years ago Saturday 4th of December 1971 Member of Zentralrat der Umherschweifenden Haschrebellen and Bewegung 2. Juni Georg von Rauch dies of a shot in the head at the age of 24 in Eisenacher Straße, Schöneberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. von Rauch was shot dead by Kriminalhauptmeister Hans-Joachim Schulz after trying to move an observed Ford Transit van. von Rauch had his hands in the air and was unarmed.

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(x) 40 years ago Wednesday 4th of December 1974 69-year-old Writer, philosopher, political activist and critic Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre pays a visit to imprisoned member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Andreas Baader in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 40 years ago Wednesday 4th of December 1974 191 hajj pilgrims die in Martinair McDonnell Douglas DC-8-55F Flight 138 crash in Maskeliya, Madhyama Palata, Sri Lanka.

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(x) 29 years ago Wednesday 4th of December 1985 Twentysixth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Bank of America, Van Eycklei 34, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. It was the fourth action in their 'Campagne Pierre Akkerman'.

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(x) 29 years ago Wednesday 4th of December 1985 56-year-old Murderess Gertrude Baniszewski, originally Gertrude Nadine Van Fossan aka Gertrude Wright is released on parole in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Baniszewski was sentenced to life imprisonment for the sadistic murder of 16-year-old neighbour Sylvia Likens in 1965.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 4th of December 2004 A selection of gifts at AMVK's birthday party in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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